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  • Living Dead in Dallas

  • Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #2
  • By: Charlaine Harris
  • Narrated by: Johanna Parker
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (662 ratings)
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Living Dead in Dallas

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
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Summary

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it).

The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favour, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly....

The Sookie Stackhouse stories are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves, and things that really do go bump in the night.

©2009 Charlaine Harris (P)2009 Orion Publishing Group

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Not like the TV series, but great all the same!

There are two types of series; one where you can read the books any which way and get the hang of it, and one where the order is important.

The first Sookie Stackhouse book has a nice solid ending, which made me think that order was not important. This one doesn't. OK so the events are all wrapped up by the end of the book, there are so many of them, so quickly, that many questions are raised and its slightly confusing. I'm left with the feeling that some of them will be answered in the next book.

OR MAYBE I've been confused by the True Blood TV series. This book contains elements which were introduced during various TV series in a different order and at different times. Oh and the characters are also slightly different from the TV series with different motivations. Yes I know, silly me, I should've expected that.

This has made it both an exciting AND confusing listen at the same time. Which is fabulous. Quite frankly I was being lazy choosing a book to listen to I thought I already knew (having seen the TV series) but am doing housework so can't have anything on my headphones that requires me to think too much. I realize now that actually it's much more fun to be going "OH HANG ON! WAIT A MINUTE!" than predicting the future accurately.

The narration is great. The are some very raunchy sex scenes handled nicely and the image of Alexander Skarsgård (who plays Erik on TV) dressed in a skin tight lyrca outfit attending an orgy had a smile on my face for the rest of the afternoon ....

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Living Dead In Dallas

This is book 2 in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. Sookie has been asked to use her mind-reading skills to help the vampires of Dallas, but she takes on more than she bargained for when she agrees to penetrate a terrorist organisation. The Fellowship Of The Sun has swarn to kill all vampires, and those who associate with them. This book is gripping from the start, its intense pace never letting up until the end. Recommended for all those who loved Dead Until Dark. Impossible to put down!

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Love this!

I have some difficulty reading the novels but the narrator make this work come alive. It's a fantastic story and a pleasure to listen to.

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Truly not an experience to be missed!

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Everything I read I remember, everything I hear I remember...

So as you can imagine I will consume a book and move on never to return, this series of books however are the only ones I have gone back through multiple times. This is because the characters are so intricately designed they become real, the story lines while based in fantasy from the off never fail to surprise and thoroughly delight. I have never had such an all round almost tactile experience from something that I've read to make me come back to them so often and with that first time read anticipation it's nuts because I remember every word already.

They are utterly hilarious, full of blood-pumping action and downright hot in equal measure with so many more facets that will have you also coming back time and again.
The books do not copy the T.V. Show plot line they are completely different the anchors for both being the familiarity of the main characters but both being superb in their own ways.

A definite BUY IT NOW! you certainly will not regret it

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Great follow up

I really enjoyed this audio book. I loved the first book, Dead Until Dark, and had the usual trepidation that the follow up wouldn't be as good. Well, not the case with this one. I loved the Dallas setting and there was as much action and steam as the first. Also, Johanna Parker narrates perfectly. The signature voice she gives each character remains constant thoughout the whole book. All in all, a real winner. I couldn't bring myself to press pause on my Iplayer!!! Worth every penny.

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Broken

Chapter 2 does not work , chapter 3 and 2 are the same repeated . Please fix

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Just keeps on getting better

Fantastic continuation from Book 1. Addictive reading at it's finest. Johanna Parker is amazing delivering the story and her execution of it's characters.

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another great listen

it was so easy to get in to this story. and finished it really fast as it was so good.

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Great

I loved this but then I’m a massive fan of the Sookie Stackhouse books. The narrator was very good and brought the book to life. I’ll definitely buy book 2.

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Loved it

Where does Living Dead in Dallas rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Pretty high, I've listened to hundreds and give up quick if something doesn't hook me straight away

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the way the characters were written, the way they responded to things made unlikely events interesting

Which character – as performed by Johanna Parker – was your favourite?

Sookie Stackhouse

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Laugh and wonder what would happen next

Any additional comments?

Surprised to be looking forward to the next installment

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