[quote name='Maklershed']I'm hoping Let Me In is better because I feel like a lot might've been lost in translation in Let the Right One In. It was clumsy, awkward, and seemed to leave a lot of the story out and let the audience guess what was going on. I'm hoping Let Me In can explain things better and if it can't at least it will be easier for an American to understand. Or maybe I should just read the book.[/QUOTE]
Let Me In streamlined a lot of aspects and does do a better job of explaining things than its Sweedish counterpart. Both movies equally draw influence from the book, but Let Me In tends to use them more in a manner where it doesn't lose those who have never read the book.
The only thing I didn't like about Let Me In was the special effects. They are overstylized.
If you do read the book, it does a great job of exploring a lot of the secondary characters and exploring the relationships between them. It also gets into the aspects of vampirism. The one thing I will say is that the book is really really long. It isn't dry, but I know on my Nook it was like 1500 pages (which is longer than the whole Stieg Larsson trilogy combined).