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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441009237
Edition: later printing
ISBN: 0441009239
Label: Ace Books
Manufacturer: Ace Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 291
Publication Date: March 26, 2002
Publisher: Ace Books
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Studio: Ace Books
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When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.
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This book was easier to read than the first one. It got to the action quicker, and it was a rather easy, quick read. I couldn't put it down, and I read the whole series in two weeks or less. I liked the introduction of the were characters and the thickening of the Eric plot. Just the ending was kind of strange. Definitely different than the season two of the true blood show, although season one was closer to the first book. I prefer the book's choices for the characters rather than the show's choices. The Maenad is much more tolerable in the book than the show, and Tara gets her first real appearance in the series, although it is completely minor in comparison to the show. In a nutshell, don't skip this book because you think you know it from the show (or you're mad at the show, etc.). This book is a must read for the series because the characters introduced there won't make as much sense for the rest of the series if you don't get their full backstory introduced here.
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The movie is never as good as the book . . . except when Alan Ball adapts pulp redneck vampire porn into television literature. Harris's concept - our own world in which the invention of cheap synthetic blood has enabled vampires to "come out of the coffin" - and her sweet, clever, emotionally-debilitated heroine are the only inspired elements in the contrived, uncertain first two novels of the Sookie Stackhouse series. Someone told me that the definition of Hot Mess is someone who comes out her wardrobe wearing everything she owns. Harris in a Hot Mess of a writer, shoehorning every whimsical idea she has into this odd opening novel. Had I stopped reading after 'Dead Until Dark' and 'Living Dead in Dallas,' I would have assumed that someone challenged Alan Ball to turn the schlockiest, most unevenly written source material he could find into an intelligent, thought-provoking, compelling television series. Harris's story of a telepathic cocktail waitress and the 150 year old vampire who has returned to the small town he left during the American civil war veers between brilliant and stupid, insightful and silly. Characters are either unique and deeply drawn or sitcom archetypes cut out of thin tissue paper. The prose is a little better than the story and characters; writing from waitress Sookie's point-of-view, there are many colorful and touching passages evoking humor, sadness, and surprise. But no, the books are not as good as HBO's television series -- at first. Now that I have read all of the Stackhouse novels, I have to admire the writer that Harris becomes in the later books. Most of the novels are contrived, requiring characters to stand around at the end explaining all the twists, turns, and red herrings in the mysteries and supernatural intrigue, but the characters, metaphors, and plot ripen as the story of Sookie progresses. So while the opening volumes are not exceptional, I recommend them so that the reader can appreciate what these adventures grow into.
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Living Dead in Dallas is part 2 of the Sookie Stackhouse series. Book 2 was about Sookie being sent to Dallas by Eric to assist the vampires in Dallas with locating a missing vampire who is apart of their nest. Sookie encounters dangers while in Dallas looking for the vampire. When Sookie returns home from Dallas, she soon finds a new adventure....finding out who killed the cook from Merlott's Bar. I didn't find the second novel as interesting as the first one; however, it was okay. I will continue to read the series since I have started it.
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You will want to read the whole series. It's a book you just don't want to put down. You will want to keep on reading just to see what happens next.
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I liked the True Blood series so I found the books online and ordered a few. I found that I was fascinated by the characters and story lines, even more than the series. I can't stop reading. It is such an interesting way to think about the world, and it makes you want to jump into the book. I think real life seems a little dull at the moment.
I've now bought all the rest of the Stackhouse books and some of Harris' other books which I'll save for when I am mourning the end of the Stackhouse novels. I just bought the Stackhouse books in Spanish, too, so I can brush up on my Spanish. I thought that would be fun after I read the English version through a second time.
I read all the time and I've never enjoyed a book more. I hope Harris will write a few more.
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