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    Living Dead in Dallas
    Living Dead in Dallas
    Living Dead in Dallas
    Audiobook8 hours

    Living Dead in Dallas

    Written by Charlaine Harris

    Narrated by Johanna Parker

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    About this audiobook

    This is the second book in Charlaine Harris' popular Southern Vampire Mysteries series. Telepathic vampire maven (and cocktail waitress) Sookie Stackhouse has been tasked with locating an abducted vampire and suppressing an upstart anti-undead religious cult. "This is one terrific read."-Kliatt
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 25, 2008
    ISBN9781436109482
    Living Dead in Dallas
    Author

    Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. She has written four series, and two stand-alone novels, in addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and graphic novels (cowritten with Christopher Golden). Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many bestseller lists. They’re also the basis of the HBO series True Blood. Harris now lives in Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.

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    • 5/5
      They do a good job of casting people to read some of these audio books. She sounds like a perfectly southern Sookie to me.
    • 5/5
      Great book. Love the characters. Worth having a listen. Thanks
    • 3/5

      Living Dead in Dallas, the second book in the Southern Vampire series, picks up shortly after the events in [book:Dead Until Dark]. Sookie, a cocktail waitress, gets pulled into a dangerous tangle after one of her coworkers turns up as a murder victim. Evidence points to a particular culprit -- but he may not be the guilty party.


      Meanwhile, Bill, Sookie's undead lover, has obliged himself to a group of vampires residing in Dallas -- and they demand Sookie's services as a telepath to help track down a vampire gone missing. Sookie complies, because she's with Bill -- his accessory? property? -- and all her ornery words aside, she lets herself be treated that way because she loves Bill.


      Oh yeah, and then there's that terrifying creature in the woods who has no particular objection to tearing poor Sookie to shreds...


      These disparate threads are tied together rather limply, unfortunately. Sookie is thrown into perilous situations, claws her way back out of them, is alternately rescued and neglected and pleasured by Bill, and... and the results are far less entertaining than Dead Until Dark.


      Living Dead in Dallas goes to a dark place, with hate crimes, racism and homophobia swirling around, much to Sookie's chagrin. Scenes of mayhem are interspersed with scenes of lust and a few angsty relationship issues. Still, by the time we reach the bloody and weirdly unsatisfying climax, there isn't much to show for all the sax and violins.


      This would have been a better book if Sookie had been less of a pawn and more of an active agent in her own story. I'm hoping for something better with the next in the series, [book:Club Dead].

    • 3/5
      After reading the first book in this series, I had expectations, like a coherent plot, decent pacing, interesting characters, and a good writing style. Unfortunately, I really only got the last of those.The plot here is hard to describe, since it goes in two unconnected stages (a murder in the rural town the first one is set in, and a missing persons investigation in Dallas among the vampires), neither of them with the flow of the first book, nor the caring. And the pacing of it! Harris leaves the first plotline for so long, I almost forgot it was there. The story also ends in a really weird place, like it cut off where there should have been another chapter, or she appended a scene that was meant to be somewhere else, or something.The characters from the last book didn't really show much change or growth here, and the new characters introduced, beyond Godfrey the suicidal vampire, were pretty uninteresting, as well. Considering I rather liked the lead pair of Sookie and Bill in the first one, I felt rather let down here.At least the writing style stood up in this one, as well. She has the same feel for reactions that people would have in the world she put together; I particularly liked the setup of the people who want the vampires to just go away, if not the execution. The tone is still sorta folksy, but it works nicely as a counterpoint to the weird stuff that goes on.All in all, I can't say I would really recommend this one, but I might try the next one anyway, in case this was an aberration.
    • 3/5
      I am entertained by this series. Not sure how far I will make it. The sexmomance between Sookie and Bill just gets old. I’m not into bawdy romances and there is alot of it in this series. The story line has me going, so I will see if my attention span continues.
    • 4/5
      I liked the variety of locations and characters in this book as it offered more understanding and information on the Vampires.
      I am in love with Bill and Eric - with Eric's humour making the book more brilliant by the second; however I felt there was a bit too much crammed in.
      I think the Dallas Vampire's should have been the main content - which was lost slightly by the random input of the Lafayette murder and the Maenad.
      All in all it was still a really good read - making me fall in love with Sookie and Bill even more.
    • 4/5
      Okay, things you need to know:1) I am definitely a 'lustful', romantic, passionate person. It's in the genes - I blame my grandmother.2) Vampires are H-O-T.3) Mixing the two together can be great fun!So you can understand why a series full of adventure, seduction, fangs, blood and lust has managed to drag me in and get me totally hooked after just two books. This one I enjoyed even better than the last one, since I haven't seen Season 2 of True Blood yet so I went into it blind, which wasn't the case with 'Dead Until Dark'. I LOVED every minute of it. Sure, it has its moments of dreadful phrasing and glaring typos, but for pure enjoyment it was just great. A dead body in a car, an ancient missing vampire, a beautiful mad creature stalking the woods, a cult of anti-vampire fanatics... and trickling through the whole thing, one Tall Blond Viking Vampire trying to seduce our fiesty telepathic waitress away from her Southern Gentleman Vampire boyfriend... I have to admit it, I have a major crush on Eric Northman - and am wishing they hadn't changed the storyline of the second season to rule out the possibility of seeing Alexander Skarsgard in those lycra leggings...This series is definitely my new addiction, and I can't wait for my days off next week to hit #3!
    • 4/5
      I have read 1 - 3 back-to-back so they are all running together. All I can say is that Eric is so funny! I love his character in these books and I love his character in the TV Series!!
    • 3/5
      Another Sookie Stackhouse novel, revolving around the story of a maenad in Bon Temps, Louisiana, and a fanatical religious cult in Dallas. Not as riveting as some of Harris' other Stackhouse books, it is still worth reading because it sets up the Fellowship of the Sun and its relationship to the Vampires (and those who love them).
    • 5/5
      Sookie Stackhouse ends up working for the vampires by using her talents as a mind reader. She agrees to do so if the vampires agree not to hurt the people whose minds she reads. Sookie's involvement with the vampires continuously gets her in trouble, and she suffers injuries quite often, but she also receives some benefits in return. In this book, you learn a little more about the people of her little Texas town of Bon Temps, as well as more about vampire society. Sookie also meets a maenad, and finds out that there are plenty of strange things going on in her town, such as the orgy that she ends up attending. Sookie is still seeing Bill, but the vampire Eric also seems to have strong feelings for her.
    • 1/5
      This audiobook kept skipping forwards, losing huge swathes of the story.
    • 3/5
      Not quite as delightful as Dead Until Dark, but that may be because it lacks that "new genre series" smell. Mind-reader Sookie Stackhouse and Civil War veteran-slash-vampire Bill Compton are still an item, and there's a new murder mystery in Bon Temps... although that storyline gets shunted aside very early in the book, to make room for an entirely different plot, wherein Sookie is summoned to Dallas to help find a kidnapped vampire. Which she does, and then returns to Bon Temps, where conveniently, no progress has been made in the murder investigation, so there's still time for her to solve that -- with the hilarious and creepy assistance of Eric the vampire.Spoiler warning: the two mysteries are completely unrelated. Which makes the whole book feel as if Harris took two half-formed ideas and shoehorned them together. Reads flimsily (if flimsily were a word), but seems like a good setup for the next book in the series.
    • 2/5
      I really wanted to like this book. I really tried to separate it from the TV show but the TV show is just better.

      I did not like the portrayal of Godfrey. I did not like the fact that we miss out on so much of what other characters are going through. I got really sick of Sookie and her obsession with her appearance and sex with Bill.

      So disappointed. Won't be reading further into the series.
    • 5/5
      Love these books listening to them is a whole new way to enjoy them again
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable. The maenad storyline is better in the book.
    • 4/5
      As entertaining as Dead Until Dark. I will be reading more books from the Southern Vampire Mysteries. I like the fact that Charlaine Harris is not holding back on the mild eroticism as most authors of these kinds of books do.
    • 3/5
      The second book was better than the first, and has me anxious to read the next!
    • 4/5
      The series started off raw and quite obvious Mrs. Harris was getting her feet wet. It was good and had some surprises. It think she may have even surprised herself. In the second volume we see her wielding a knife in process of being sharpened. Considering the fluff and baloney that has been pumped out by generic Vampire writers. The Stackhouse books are anything but. As a writer she grows with her characters and allows us a little empathy towards them. Sookie is slowly being drawn into a world that she will never fully understand but find no way out of. A bevy of interesting characters make this book and the ones following it worth it.
    • 1/5
      I gave this series another chance because in the reviews to the first book, people said it gets better. But I found this book worse than the first. The author introduced a completely new, dangerous creature, but does nothing with the potential that comes with it.
      She turns up, attacks Sookie so she has an excuse to get naked in front of Vampires and then turns up again at the end to magically solve a plot that would otherwise have been too... complicated(?) to resolve? I don't get it.
      Also, Sookie continues to romanticise abusive behaviour.
      I still like the ideas, especially the Fellowhip of the Sun. Great potential there, but it's not used. Well, apparently this isn't the goal here.
    • 4/5
      OK. Bubba cracks me up.
    • 4/5
      This is the 2nd book in the series. It's a great book that expands more into the Sookie world and shows more about the vampires.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book immensly. It was better than the first book and I believe this series is going continue to be good.
      This book was a lot faster baced and that was one of the reasons why I liked it more compared to the first book.
      In these novels, the characters are enjoyable and just simply good. I quite like Sookie in the books although she's not my favorite character in the TV series and I in general, I somehow find the characters to be more real in the books than in the TV series no matter how weird that might sound.
      All in all, this book was great and I cannot wait to read more books from this series.
    • 4/5
      The second installment in the Sookie Stackhouse series was an improvement over the first novel. I’m not entirely sure where this novel fit in with the television show, but my remembrance is that the two primary plot lines encompassed more than one season on the show. The two main storylines are the one involving Sookie going to Dallas to help find a vampire that has gone missing, and Lafayette (who was a much bigger character on the television show) showing up dead in the sheriff’s car.This novel was an easy read. Charlaine Harris writes in a pleasing style. The plot is not terribly complicated, although there was still room for a plot twist or two. Eric starts to become more of a major character in this novel, which is a good thing since he was my favorite character on the show. He has a certain confidence and swagger about him. Harris did a fine job breathing life into the character. Although not overly complex, the plot had enough meat on it to make it compelling. In a day and age where novels seemed to be growing in word count, this novel was short, sweet, and to the point. This was a fun novel that I would recommend.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
    • 3/5
      I wish that Bill weren't so flat of a character. It's like he's an afterthought. Fun story though!
    • 5/5
      Moving faster than the first
    • 4/5
      Overall, this sequel expanded on the universe that we were introduced to in the first book really well. We got to meet some knew characters (that will hopefully be brought back up) and get a better feel for Bill Compton. After completing this book, I really hope that Sookie comes to her senses and leaves Bill. He spends most of this book being jealous and controlling and ignores Sookie's desires. I understand why she has put up with him so far- he is her first real relationship after all, but at some point enough is enough. The only times that we see Bill actually be nice to Sookie are when they have sex, but even then he can still be an ass. He coerced her into having sex when she was injured (after she said that she didn't want to) and then ignored her request to be gentle when she was recovering because he "couldn't help himself". Ridiculous. The main reason why I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars is because of the maenad subplot. It was confusing and pointless. She served no purpose other than to kill off some minor characters and to create tension between Bill and Sookie because of Eric (which wasn't necessary because Bill was doing a fine job of that on his own). I feel that the time spent on this subplot would have been better spent exploring the Fellowship of the Sun or the vampire politics that Sookie got a glimpse at while in Dallas. Knowing that the maenad wasn't important makes the events in Dallas seemed a little rushed and thrown together.
    • 3/5
      Sookie has to do double investigation duty with the death of a co-worker and a missing vampire in Dallas. To top it all off, Sookie has a run in with a creature that even vampires fear (for those who've seen True Blood, it's pretty obvious what that is). Overall, it's a pretty good book, but the ending feels very rushed.
    • 2/5
      I listened to this on audiobook.

      As I said in my review of the first book, the TV show covers the subject matter in a much more sophisticated way. The Maenad is much more fleshed out as Maryann, and Tara and Eggs' relationship is much more established, and the orgies are better explained. And everyone doesn't die at the end -- instead, Sam and Bill work together to save the the townsfolk, and Andy and Jason bond (providing many laughs in the process). As well, the Jason's whole indoctrination and falling out with the Fellowship were excellent -- his little affair with the preacher's wife was hilarious. Also, the episode with Godric meeting the dawn was probably my favourite episode of the whole series (except maybe the pilot). He plays a much more Gandi type role on the TV show, and making him Eric's maker was a wise decision by the writers -- it made Eric about ten times more sympathetic a character. And perhaps most importantly, Lafayette doesn't die! He's too good a character, so I'm glad they preserved him.

      Also, I loved the Jessica/Hoyt story line so much. I was surprised that wasn't in the books. They are so damn cute!

      I am fast becoming a huge Eric fan. I can't decide whether I like him better in the books or on the show. Alexander Skarsgard certainly makes the character even more appealing. So I do love that Eric goes to the orgy with Sookie in neon pink lycra, and that they make out on the hood of his car, but it does seem kind of shallow and out of sync with Sookie's previous devotion to Bill. I think putting these types of episodes in Sookie's dreams was another smart decision by the writers.

      I did also like Portia Bellefleur, and I hope we get to see her on the show eventually. I liked the shifter Luna and the werewolves too.

      So. Books still inferior to the TV show, but they're good filler while I wait the nine more months till the show airs again.
    • 2/5
      This review is full of spoilers.
      This review is posted on my blog

      I think I should start out by saying that I was introduced to the True Blood show before I even knew about any of the Sookie Stackhouse books, and so I already had a picture of these characters, as well as opinions of and attachments to some of them. So I found it very upsetting when one of my very favorite characters was found dead right at the beginning. Although we had not seen much of Lafayette in the first book, I had hoped (due to how important he was in the show) his role would pick up, but I guess not.
      I thought that this book was a little slower than the first one, and found the maenad confusing and a little juvenile. She just sort of skipped into Bon Temps, throws a few orgies, kills a few people, then shrugs her shoulders and tosses her hair with a painful 'oh well, I have to go somewhere else now' type goodbye worthy of a flirty 13 year old talking to a crush on AIM, and flounces right back out of the series leaving Sookie, or rather Bill and Eric, to clean up the mess. It felt like a cop out ending if there ever was one. So you found the villain, and they killed someone, and they attacked you, leaving you for dead just to send a message, what are you going to do next? Answer: watch her dance off into the woods like a crazy person and do nothing. In the sarcastic words of my 18 year old younger sister 'Cool story, bro, tell it again.'
      But there is another story line here, you say? It's got a much better resolution to it, you say? Well, yes, you would be at least partially correct. Sookie is hired(bullied) into helping Bill's boss, Eric's friend find his kidnapped 'brother' from a crazed religious group called the Fellowship of the Sun, because an ancient, remorseful, child molesting vampire want's a buddy when he commits suicide to escape the guilt (and gain redemption?). I wasn't sure if I felt bad for this guy because he was thoroughly brainwashed to the point of stupidity by the Fellowship of the Sun, into thinking that this was God's will, or something like that, or not because he was a self proclaimed child rapist.

      But wait, you say, that's not the whole book! There is the wonderful, and romantic love story between Sookie and Bill! Now that you mention it, I do remember a deeply disturbing, and borderline terrifying relationship between the two of them. The entire book, while trying to show the deep love and devotion these two had for each other, was littered with alarming passages about Bill's controlling nature, and outbursts of rage. My favorite is when he demands that she take off Eric's shirt (given to her because her own was ruined in a vicious attack) because he could not stand to see her wear Eric's clothes. Other's included hastily brushed away bursts of fear from Sookie, and borderline rape, when Sookie, badly injured, does not feel up to sex, but Bill insists until she finally agrees. It almost played out as a what not to do for relationships, although their eventual split up at the end of the book makes me wonder if the author wrote it as a bad relationship (I hope so!).

      Overall I didn't really like this book all that much, but I would recommend it to someone who liked the Vampire Diaries books, or Beautiful Creatures. I will probably finish the series, but it will most likely take me a while.
    • 3/5
      Something I've been noticing more and more in the vampire fiction I read is that it seems that vampires always seem to have a hierarchical society with a plethora of mores they need to follow. I'm thinking back to Dracula and wondering where this conceit has come from; my best guess is because the original vampire was a member of the noble class, that's continued into the subsequent imaginings of what a vampire is, but it seems like modern vampires put a lot more emphasis on having companions than Stoker put into his novel.At any rate, this time Sookie is off to Dallas to find out where a missing vampire has disappeared off to. She has to do this because she's considered the property of her vampire boyfriend by the other vampires. As silly as that all sounds, the book was a fun read.The only real criticism I have is that I felt like this book introduced a lot of new characters into the Sookie Stackhouse universe which was completely unnecessary considering I couldn't keep all the characters in the first book straight. I am hoping that some of them come back in subsequent novels because if they don't, Harris wasted space bringing them in and leaving a lot of unanswered questions (example: Barry the Other Telepath).