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 Looking forward to the next book Mar 20, 2010
Well, I feel pretty much like I did after I read Dead Until Dark. The book was good and fun, but nothing to rave about. I'm still not sure about Sookie or Bill. And this book went a little weird for me close to the end. There was a pretty good surprise right at the end though. And I really don't have much to write about this story. I think I liked the first book better, but am looking forward to the next book in the series, Club Dead.
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Living Dead in Dallas Mar 13, 2010
Louisiana waitress and telepath Sookie Stackhouse is no stranger to the wonderfully weird world of vampires and shapeshifters. When a group of vampires from Texas request that Sookie use her special ability to locate a missing comrade, she and Bill travel to Dallas to investigate.
If you'll recall from my review of book one, Dead and Loving It, part of the appeal of the Sookie series is the setting. Small town Louisiana was drawn so perfectly in book one that naturally, Living Dead in Dallas is put to a slight disadvantage by moving the setting across state lines. Now, I'm a Texas girl - "born and bred," so to speak - but I did notice a lack of the Southern charm that I loved so much in Dead and Loving It.
Despite the change in setting (to the detriment of the of the story, in my honest opinion,) I really did enjoy reading Living Dead in Dallas. Sookie is my kind of girl - delightfully kooky, and "self-educated by genre fiction." Following her story is a true pleasure. It is incredibly easy to become lost in Sookie's world. I can't wait to see where Charlaine Harris will lead us next.
 Loved the entire series Mar 03, 2010
Wonderful story and characters. Found these after watching HBO's TrueBlood. I definitely prefer the books, which I usually do. However, reading the books and watching the series make the entire experience worth-while. Mid-thirties, corporate, working mom. I like to escape into a good story when I have down time.
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 For Entertainment Purposes Only, Of Little To No Literary Value Feb 28, 2010
It is a safe bet that nobody is reading the Sookie Stackhouse series for its literary value. The second book in the vampire series by Charlaine Harris is as poorly written as the first, if not more so. Can we agree that we read the adventures of Sookie for the violence and the sex? These novels have their place in our culture, just as big budget blockbuster films do. They serve as a quick, mindless read, finished in a few days. They are the horror equivalent of the tawdry drugstore romance novel with little to no character development, description, or internal conflict. The imagination factor is minimal, the vocabulary is basic, and the language is cliché-filled.
Yet still, they serve their purpose. Living Dead In Dallas finds Sookie Stackhouse working for the vampires, on loan to the Dallas vampires and using her psychic abilities to help locate a kidnapped vampire. Her vampire lover, Bill, and Eric, the leader of the Louisiana chapter of vampires, accompany her on her journey. Along the way, she meets a number of colorful characters who, if the time had been taken to develop them more intimately, may have been interesting. It seems as though Charlaine Harris may have consulted a personality dictionary during her writing, creating superficial characters with little to no internal conflict, at least none that is obvious to the reader.
The story moves quickly through Dallas as Sookie helps to unravel a plot by an anti-vampire league chartered with publicly expressing their hatred for vampires. Sookie returns home to find a close friend's murder still unresolved, and she engages herself in a local sex club to help bring the killers to justice. Harris tries desperately to engage her readers in the supernatural world, weaving different other-worldly creature such as shape-shifters and maenads into the storyline. But she does no unsuccessfully as the characters serve no real purpose for their presence or add little to help the story move forward.
Living Dead In Dallas serves its purpose as mindless , unfocused fiction, the kind you can read in the airport without having to focus too intently on the content. If you miss a few pages out of distraction, you can probably figure out what happened by thinking about how you would have crafted the story. It is less than creative and entirely basic, but it does provide some satisfaction as entertainment only.
loved this book! Feb 27, 2010
I love the way Charlaine Harris brings Sookie and the other charecters to life. I was totally glued to this book and the others from this series. It is at times serious and at others I was laughing. Just an enjoyable read.
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