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    Vorübergehend tot: True Blood 1

    By Charlaine Harris

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    Sookie Stackhouse jobbt in einer Kleinstadt in Louisiana als Kellnerin. Sie ist still, introvertiert und geht selten aus. Nicht, daß sie nicht hübsch wäre. Im Gegenteil. Sookie hat nur, na ja, eben diese Behinderung. Sie kann Gedanken lesen. Das macht sie nicht gerade begehrenswert. Doch dann taucht Bill auf. Er ist groß, düster, gutaussehend - und Sookie hört kein Wort von dem, was er denkt. Er ist genau die Art Mann, auf die sie schon ihr ganzes Leben lang wartet ...

    Die Geschichten, in die Sookie und Bill im Fortgang der Reihe verwickelt werden, sind eine wundervolle Mischung aus Mystery und Phantastik, in der auch mit spannenden Krimianteilen und einem guten Schuss Erotik nicht gespart wird.

    Die Reihe wurde so populär, daß Alan Ball, Schöpfer der HBO-Fernsehserie Six Feet Under, nicht nur die Produktion der True Blood-Fernsehserie übernahm, die auf den Sookie-Romanen basiert, sondern auch gleich das Drehbuch für den Pilotfilm schrieb. Inzwischen existieren sieben für zahlreiche Preise nominierte Staffeln.

    Seit 2004 sind die ersten drei Bände der Sookie-Stackhouse-Reihe "Vorübergehend tot", "Untot in Dallas" und "Club Dead" ein Dauerbrenner im Programm bei Feder & Schwert und erfreuen sich bei den Fans und Lesern allergrößter Beliebtheit!
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherFeder & Schwert
    Release dateMar 12, 2013
    ISBN9783867621724
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    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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    • 4/5
      The premise: Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a small town in Louisiana. She's a little crazy by the town's standards, but what's really wrong is what she considers her disability to read minds. When she meets Bill, a vampire, she can't hear a word he's thinking, and of course, that makes him all the more attractive. But dating a vampire isn't easy, and unfortunately, Bill hangs around a bad crowd, all of whom are suspected of murder. It isn't long before Sookie starts fearing for her own life, especially when one of her co-workers is found dead.My RatingWorth the Cash: fans of vampire fiction should enjoy this, but a warning to fans of Jeaniene Frost and Stephenie Meyer who may not be well-read in the urban fantasy genre: you'll like this book, but anytime you notice a comparison to Meyer or Frost, remember: HARRIS CAME FIRST. I'm not going to say that either author stole from Harris, but Harris was definitely an influence, if not for Meyer (I think she's said before that she doesn't read vampire fiction, so any coincidences are just part of the creative collective conscious), then more likely for Frost. And that's not a bad thing. This book was enjoyable and didn't diminish my love for Frost's work, and both series are different enough that there's certainly room for both on the urban fantasy fan's bookshelf. It's a good, solid read with equal dose mystery and romance. I liked this enough to try the next book in the series, and whenever True Blood is available on iTunes, you can bet I'll give the show a shot.The full review, which does contain spoilers, may be found in my LJ. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Charlaine Harris's DEAD UNTIL DARKHappy Reading!
    • 3/5
      Sookie Stackhouse, a cute blonde with the ability to read minds, is thrilled when a vampire walks into the bar where she works. He's awful sweet to her, and she can't hear a psychic peep from him. But not everyone shares her fondness for vampires... or her tolerance for those who "go" with them. Someone is killing young women - young women tagged as fangbangers. And Sookie knows she's a target.I've heard a lot about these books over the years. It seems like they're everywhere lately, what with the HBO show and all, so I figured I'd give 'em a go. See what they're like.I feel strange saying this, given that the book is chock full of murder and bloodlust and other great stuff like that, but I found it... well, fluffy. It's a cute, fun little thing that reads up right quick.I think Sookie herself sets the tone here. She's such a sweetie. She's friendly and bright and rather naive. She's not your typical angsty, I'll-kick-your-ass-into-next-Thursday-if-you-look-at-me-the-wrong-way urban fantasy heroine. She hasn't let all the dark thoughts she picks up on corrupt her or make her cynical. She's just a big ol' sweetie pie. I couldn't really consider this a dark, gory murder mystery. Not with a heroine like Sookie. She was my favourite part of the book.I also liked the atmosphere. This is very much a southern vampire story. It's got a real Louisiana feel to it; the way everyone speaks, the names, the attitudes... I thought Harris evoked the setting very well. I appreciated how she incorporated the supernatural into her alternate world, too. It wasn't quite on a par with any of my favourite alternate worlds, but it still felt fairly realistic.But the rest of the book... well. It's fluffy. It's good, I don't want you to think it isn't, but it's not really very deep. Sookie and Bill's relationship is sketchy at best. I never felt the chemistry between them. Ditto for her friendships with the rest of the town. They're sweet and all, but I couldn't find the spark. I couldn't find the oomph.The mystery is much the same. It didn't leap out at me. For the most part, I felt like it was just a vehicle whereby Harris could introduce her characters and their world. Given that the series seems to be a vampire detective kind of a deal, I do think she might have done more to build up the mystery angle and show her characters actually solving the crime. Sookie does do a little bit, but for the most part she seems to just fall into the answers she needs.I also had some trouble with the tenses. The book is told from Sookie's first person POV. At the very beginning, Harris slips back and forth between the past tense and the present tense in order to show that the book's events are in Sookie's fairly recent past, but it doesn't quite jive with the story. Stuff like that bugs me no end.My final verdict: a fun book and a decent way to pass the time, but nothing special. It reads like the series opener it is. I'll probably read a couple more of the books, but I'm not really sold yet.(A slightly different version of this review originally appeared on my blog, Stella Matutina).
    • 4/5
      I watch True Blood and was told by several people the books are different from the shows. I was also told the audio books are really good. The reader of this audio book sounds SO much like Anna Paquin, it's just freaky. The show is also pretty close to the book. Bubba, who I guess is in the books a lot, is not on the show. I really enjoyed listening to this book and plan to listen to the entire series. I will say listening to it read out loud, the dialog is pretty simple and not dynamic. But still a fun listen on the way to/from work.
    • 5/5
      I just discovered these. The books are every bit as good or better than the TV show.
    • 3/5
      What bunch of fluff. Maybe that is what some people want. This series gets better as it goes, but this first book reads like a kindergarten pop up book. You can tell it tell it was written by a bored housewife who just wanted to cash in on the Vampire fad. It is very obvious that Harris had no clue how to write a book.....but she gets better and learns her craft as the series progresses. I will giver her that. If you want real vampires.....Read a Brian Lumley book. Either way it's better than Twilight.....this is fluff.....those are trash.
    • 3/5
      Like a lot of people, I started reading this book because of the True Blood tv series. While it's just an ok book, I'm fascinated by the world Charlaine Harris has created and can't wait to see just how far she expands it.
    • 3/5
      Quirky and Kookie. First in a popular series.
    • 3/5
      I'm a big True Blood fan, and wanted more once I finished watching the Season 2 finale (I've got another 9 months at least until Season 3 airs!), so I started listening to these on audiobook. I have to give Harris credit for the 'verse she created, but the TV show is way more intelligent and politically interesting (although Bill sounds hotter in the books). From the TV show, I love the black characters, the brother's slow-witted escapades, and the social commentaries on small-town Southern life. The book has little to none of that. Sookie's still a good character (strong, plucky, and full of chutzpah), though, and there's way more vampire stuff so if you only care about the vamps, there's that. It's extremely fluffy, light reading. Not terrible but not overwhelmingly fantastic, either. While the show would get 4.5 or 5 stars from me, I'll have to settle with 3 for the books so far.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book. It wasn't too serious, but on the other hand, it wasn't as ridiculous as some of the other vampire fiction I've read. Maybe it's just because I'm somewhat unobservant at times, but I didn't guess who the killer was, but as soon as it was revealed, I could remember a multitude of times it was foreshadowed.Probably won't read it again, especially since I actually borrowed it from the library instead of buying it, but I'm definitely continuing with the series. :)
    • 4/5
      Fun, light read!
    • 3/5
      Of course I’ve heard a lot about the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and thought I would read the first to get a sense of why these books are popular. This was a light and quick read but it didn’t grab me enough to want to read the rest of the series. Sookie herself is an appealing heroine, but the vampire Bill just came off as sort of icky and not interesting enough to engage me. But then again I’m not a big fan of vampire novels. Anyone who likes light stories similar to Janet Evanovich and thinks vampires are sexy would love this series.
    • 5/5
      Man, I just love Sookie so much. She's adorable and I love her. The book is hard to put down, even knowing what's going to happen as well as information from later books.She's one of my favorite heroines of all time, though I can't say I'm a huge fan of Bill. I can't remember if I liked him the first time around or not. But this series really stands out in the urban fantasy genre, not only because of Sookie, but because of the actually interesting plots and good continuity.
    • 3/5
      Silly fluff.
    • 4/5
      Brain candy!
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable. Fun series.
    • 2/5
      This was a nice escape from finals week, but the ending had me rolling my eyes. I don't think I'll bother with any others in the series.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good. I was very interested in the mystery.
    • 4/5
      In this paranormal romance, naive small-town waitress Sookie Stackhouse falls in love with a vampire, solves a mystery, and discovers that her own supernatural gift of telepathy is not a "disability". This novel is not great literature, but it is surprisingly engaging and effective, and I say this as someone who doesn't particularly care about vampires and has never seen the HBO series. I might even pick up another book in the True Blood series someday.
    • 5/5
      Okay---the writing is super basic, but the story line and the characters are lovely.
    • 4/5
      Surprisingly charming, if a bit disturbing.
    • 4/5
      Loved it!!!! My vampire 'knowledge' is based on 'twilight' so the differences in vampire history took me a while to get use to. Was a bit more adult than I expected but it wasn't out of place, and the violence others have mentioned was justified. The bit about the babysitter vampire made me laugh, overall a good read if this is your sort of thing. Bring on book 2!
    • 5/5
      In Dead Until Dark, we are introduced to crazy Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, who has what she considers to be an unusual disability. She also longs to meet a vampire, a real possibility since they "came out of the coffin" after the invention of synthetic blood. So she is surprised and pleased when one shows up sitting in her section of Merlotte's, the local Bon Temps bar where she works. Shortly thereafter she saves him, then he saves her, and the love affair begins. Throw in the mysterious murders that Sookie's brother Jason is accused of committing and Sookie's use of her "disability" to discover the truth and what ensues is pure, hair-raising reading fun. And fun it definitely is - at times a little scary (but not gory or scary enough to qualify as horror), at times sensuous, and at times just plain laugh-out-loud funny. I love Sookie as a heroine. She is the perfect balance of pretty and smart, but at the same time is rather sheltered and naive. And she is not unrealistically beautiful and rich. In fact, as a barmaid, she is actually on the lower end of the income scale and is living with her grandmother in their old family home. Her grandmother is a true Southern woman, and does her best to bring Sookie up to be one as well. To people living in other parts of the country, the book may seem a little exaggerated, but trust me, this is how small town life in the South really is. Even the Descendants of the Glorious Dead club that Adele is a member of reminds me of The Daughters of the Confederacy which my own mother and grandmother were members of. That's another thing I like about this book - Harris has a way of being true to the South while at the same time presenting it in a humorous way. And I think I mentioned before that I also enjoy Harris's treatment of vampires. She keeps some of the traditional ideas about vampirism and mixes them with some new ideas, one of my favorite being that the vampires are trying to "mainstream." For more thoughts on the Sookie Stackhouse series, or to read some of my other reviews, please visit my blog, bookforage.blogspot.com.
    • 4/5
      Another Vamp series but I like the supernatural meets ordinary world that Harris creates. And Sookie's pretty funny with her Southern charm.
    • 4/5
      Gimme book 2! I'm excited to be starting a new vampire series, and one that is darker.
    • 4/5
      True Blood hasn't been aired in Belgium yet, but I discovered the Sookie Stackhouse novels after watching this HBO series online ... and like always, the book is ten times better than the TV series.

      Being a Anne Rice fan, it's not surprising to me that I got addicted to Charlaine Harris' novels : I have been reading one book a day since my amazon order arrived and am having a hard time to up the book down (even reading a few sentences at every traffic light).

      This isn't high brow literature but definetely good entertainment.
    • 3/5
      Like the rest of America, I decided to read this book after watching most of season one of HBO's True Blood. The book is good. It has an interesting story to tell, and Harris does a thorough job helping us understand Sookie and her life. I am also a fan of Bill, who somehow comes off as more complex in the book than in True Blood. He seems more vampiric as well, more dangerous, more uncertain. Harris does good work. That being said, this book isn't going to win any prizes for great literature. It's interesting fluff. I am not sure how much it comments on the state of our world, our existence, etc... Interestly, I think we get much more effective social commentary from the TV series... Wow, I never thought I would say that...

      It's definitely a good, quick, read that works well as escapist literature.
    • 3/5
      A fun and enjoyable read, but honestly nothing special, I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I will not be reading the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      Opening Line - I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.What I Liked Narration - I loved the narrator, Johanna Parker. She spectacularly voiced all the characters, both male and female but especially Sookie. I thought that a female narrator would struggle to voice the males characters, but Johanna did a wonderful job.Characters - I really liked the characters in Dead Until Dark, they were well developed but there is room for more development throughout the series. I am really looking forward to seeing how Sookie and Bill develop as characters.Vampires - I loved Harris' take on vampires. She stays true to the traditional vampire but with so much more to them. A society where vampires have integrated somewhat is something that I have not read about before and I really enjoyed this aspect of Dead Until Dark.Sex - After watching two seasons of the True Blood TV series I expected the books to be full to the brim of sex, but I was pleasantly surprised that Dead Until Dark didn't contain as much graphic sex as the TV show. I love the TV show, but I'm not a fan of books that contain lots of graphic sex.What I Didn’t Like Repetition - There were several times where there were repetitive descriptions of both Sookie's appearance and her ability to block other people thoughts.Overall I really enjoyed listening to Dead Until Dark. It was a quick "read" and I'm really looking forward to reading the next book in the series, Living Dead in Dallas.Recommendations I would recommend this book to fans of True Blood, as well as fan of paranormal romance.
    • 3/5
      Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic waitress at Merlotte's, a little dive bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Her world is turned upside down the night a strange vampire walks into her bar and she finds that he only has eyes for her. Add that to the fact that waitresses around town who've been involved with vampires are being murdered one by one, and you have the makings for a very paranormal mystery.I picked the first half of the series up on a whim after a couple of friends of mine suggested it to me. This isn't my kind of novel, but I thought I could give it a shot. To be honest, it isn't really much better than most trashy romance novels as far as writing is concerned. The real standout is the actual story. While not well written or well edited, the plot did eventually get me turning pages. I was looking for a quick, easy, fluffy read that I didn't have to think too much about, and that is exactly what I got. Sure, there were things that caused me to roll my eyes, and the characters could really be idiotic and insufferable, but the book did its job in being a pool side read, so I can't say that it was all bad.I'd recommend it to people who usually like romance novels, especially those of the paranormal persuasion, or are like me and just want a quick, fluffy read to enjoy by the pool this summer. For the genre, I imagine it being average at best. Three stars.
    • 5/5


      Summary : Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She' s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. Its just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability". She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome --- and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy skids been waiting for all her life ...

      But Bill has a disability of his own: He is a vampire with a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of --- big surprise --- murder. And when one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next ...

      -GOODREADS

      My Opinion : Well, it's official, I have found a new vampire series to read! After having read the Twilight Saga and the Vampire Academy series, I didn't think I'd find another series that I'd enjoy as much. But I did!


      Charlaine Harris' writing was fast-paced, funny, sometimes dark, and a peace of art. I enjoyed the quickened pace and the sometimes dramatic scenes between Bill and Sookie.


      Bill was a great character. He didn't have much of a personality, but I still liked him. Sookie was the one with the funny and nice personality that a great series needs.


      I recommend this funny as well as dark vampire series, which was also adapted into a TV series called True Blood.


      I cannot wait to get my hands on the second book in the series,