Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2001, Paperback, Reissue)

This is the first book of the Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire series. Excellent story. Charlaine Harris did a wonderful job! So great in fact,
Come fall this is the basis for a new HBO Series called TRUE BLOOD. You will need this book to follow the story line. I recently sold all my Sookie books and am buying them all back.Sookie ia a telepathic waitress and hooks up with a Vampire. I don't want to say much more as I don't want to spoil it for you.

I had a blast reading this book. Just being turned into a vamp doesn't change the core type of person you are. If you were trailer trash before.. likely to be trailer trash after. Ms Harris adds just enough mystery, a dash of romance, and a lot of colorful characters to keep you laughing but balanced upon the edge of your seat. She is Laurell Hamilton with less sex, more humor, and even more color to her characters. Very relatable to today's lifestyle. This is the first in a whole series of Sookie Stackhouse adventures.. and they just get better and better!

I really enjoy the whole 'Dead' Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. I was excited when I heard HBO was going to adapt it into a series directded by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under). I'm not sure what is happening with the series but the books are so much fun. The main character Sookie, a Louisiana bar waitress, is gifted with mind-reading abilities and interacts with the supernatural world of vampires and other creatures of the night. She is very humorous, personable, and gutsy.
This is a fun book series thats darkly humorous, mysterious, and a whole lot of fun.

Charlaine Harris is the most wonderful writer. Her character Sookie Stackhouse will quickly become one of your best friends. Ms. Harris's writing flows. Her Southern Vampire books are marvelous!

Dead Until Dark is your basic telepathic-girl-meets-vampire-boy story. Of course where there are vampires there are bound to be dead bodies and there seems to be a serial killer targeting girls with vampire connections. What's a girl to do?

Super fast read, fast paced, funny and smart. Highly recommended if you like Anne Rice but need a break from all the complicated plotlines that go on forever. If you like chick-lit then this one is similar but with a bit of blood.

Charlaine Harris does a great job with this series. Light-hearted and a great read. I love this series.

I was anxious to get a sneak preview of this series of books before the HBO programs started.

Interesting concept, the writing is straightforward, but rather amateurish.
But what do I know? She's sold many, many books.

In the first book of the Sookie series we're introduced to Sookie, a simple country girl who is sweet, innocent, well.. until she meets vampire Bill, tough as nails, and very attractive. She has one little secret, telepathy, that has impacted her whole life...usually for the worse. Sookie's world is a hoot, very exciting, very HOT, and sometimes dangerous. This is a highly recommended series...love it.

This is The 1st book in the southern vampire series. Charlaine Harris is an excellent writer. She has taken the life of Sookie Stackhouse, an unusual southern waitress, and ran wild through the halls of the paranormal with it! If you like a lot of humor,sexiness, and danger in your books, than this is a MUST READ!!!!!!!

Meet Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic bar maid. Sookie, known around town as “Crazy Sookie” because of her psychic talent (she calls it “her disability”), is bored, lonely and repressed. That is, until the night Bill the Vampire walks into the bar where Sookie works. From that moment on, nothing in Sookie’s life can be called boring.

“Dead Until Dark” is the first in the “Sookie Stackhouse” series by Harris. We are introduced to the small Southern town of Bon Temps and its many colorful inhabitants. Sookie’s love interest turns out to be a man over 100 years older than Sookie, a Civil War Veteran and a member of the undead underground. Vampires in Sookie’s world have achieved legal status to exist alongside humans, though this does nothing to resolve the ages old conflict between human and vampire.

The vampires are clearly a metaphor for prejudice, but don’t let that stop you. Moralizing is minimal and humor abounds, as portrayed by the response Sookie’s own Gran has to the news that her granddaughter is dating a “fang”. Gran immediately wants to know if Bill will come and lecture her club on “what it was really like during the Civil War” and flutters around Bill and his suave manners like a crazed moth.

Harris drives her two main characters back and forth between love, confusion, violence and surrender like an out of control earthmover. I was happily exhausted by the time I reached the conclusion. By the way, I hardly set the book down once I’d started it. Wanting to know what happens next to Sookie and Bill more than wanting to shop is a powerful testament to Harris’ storytelling skills.

There’s a mystery at the heart of the story, which concludes in a satisfying manner, but what I liked best was the sense that these two characters, Sookie and Bill, were people I could get to know and care about.

Fairly explicit (and well written) erotic scenes make this an NC-17, so don’t give it to the kiddies. Keep it for yourself. No heavy reading here, but who needs it when you can tag along with two incredibly entertaining characters as they solve mysteries and gamely try to understand each other.

Once I had read ‘Dead Until Dark’ I ordered all the other books published to date. I burned through them like each one was a piece of candy and then mourned that I had to wait for more. There is, however, another source for Sookie addicts – HBO is releasing a new series based on the books, called ‘True Blood’.

Having an affair with a vampire has one main benefit for Sookie. Her predilection for reading minds doesn't seem to work with him. But as is common with vampires, violence follows in his wake, and she becomes afraid that she might be more than just a spectator.
This is a super book and I'm eagerly waiting for the next one to arrive.

I started reading from the third book, so i went on the hunt for the first two books and I wasn't let down with this book, is an easy read book, once you start reading the first chapter, it's hard to put the book down.

Fast read, aside from the main character, not too many of the other characters were very fleshed out, but that begins to get better later on in her series. The main story is about Sookie Stackhouse's love affair with Vampire Bill and solving a string of murders in the area that her brother Jason is being framed for. The story was decent and fast paced. Some of the sentence structure didn't make sense to me and at times I couldn't tell who was speaking but once again this gets better in her later novels. I kept reading it because some of the ideas in the book were interesting like one of the vamps being a famous dead rock star, and vamps being drained of their blood and having it sold like drugs that was interesting. I liked Dead To The World her third novel better.

I liked the book. It was the first vampire book I have read. It was a cute, fun read. I ordered the rest of the series.

A continuation of an ongoing serious about a humorous, gutsy Southern gal and her supernatural encounters! Entertaining, spicy and fun! Once again, my library's wait list was too long and I wanted to save time, gas, and $.

I normally don't care for books about vampires. I decided to try this one though because it seems Charlaine Harris is a popular author. I didn't care for it. I got through it fairly quickly but I thought it was strange. I will try to read another Sookie Stackhouse book and give the Southern Vampire series another chance.

The book was just what i expected the only down side to this was that it took the 1 book around 20 if not 25 days to arrive. It's okay unless you really want your book fast, if that's the case you might just want to purchase it elsewhere.

I really got into these characters. It's a fast read, and I love how she tells it from Sookie's point of view. I really feel like I'm a part of this world when I start reading.

At first communication was good. shipping was quick. When I got the item it was not new as that is why I bought it and it was advertised as. It was used. After contacting the seller she did apologize and offered me to return the book for replacement. Shipping costs for me would have been more than the item so I opt'ed out. Because of this netural feedback was given. The seller became angry even after I said I can not give positive feedback on a less than positive item.

I am familiar with this book series, and wanted an additional copy with the original cover art, not a picture from the HBO series made from the books. The original cover art is whimsical, funny, and reflects the more light-hearted feel of the books. The HBO series lacks this.

my daughter and I love the series on HBO. So she wanted me to order her the books as well. She said liked it alot and can't wait till the next one comes in the mail. Good Vampire story not as graphic as the series ok for teens to read.

I purchased and read this book after watching the first season of True Blood. The book is different enough from the series to make it worth reading, even having watched the series. Some spoilers are involved in watching/reading one first, of course. However, reading the book gives a fun insight into Sookie's quirky mind - her thoughts on the strange events and her feelings for Bill. I'm reading the next book before watching Season Two!

The read itself was quick and easy. It is a very straight forward book but it does lack the action and suspense as the True Blood show. This is actually the first time I'd have to say that the show is better than the book. The book is completely different from the show. All of the outcomes are the same but they happen differently. There's less drama and some characters from the show are also missing from the book. It was almost like someone read the book and was like "Hey, I can do better" and made the series out of it. It brought back some of the show imagery but the only reason to read this book is if you're interested in how different the story line really is from the show. A pleasant and simple book to read though.

Quick delivery. Great condition. Great experience. Everything was exactly as described. I recommend this seller.