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A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse: The Complete Stories) |  | Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Ace Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Pages: 208 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0441017835 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780441017836 ASIN: 0441017835
Publication Date: October 6, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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I can't wait for the next one!!! August 27, 2010 Krystal D. Quillen (TN) This is a great read for all Sookie fans. I can't wait for the next book!!!
A thoroughly enjoyable collection of short stories for Sookie fans August 24, 2010 T (NC) 3.5 stars.
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of short stories, so much so that I was about to give it 4 stars. I think my enjoyment has a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have to pay $23.95 to read it. As a free offering, it's a great entertainment.
In no way is Charlaine Harris is a great short story writer or a writer period, and yet her books are like crack to me - can't get enough of them, even though I know they are not good in any literary sense.
Yes, some of the stories suffer from too abrupt resolutions ("Dracula Night" and "One World Answer") or lack of any kind of conflict ("Gift Wrap"), but I didn't care, I enjoyed the characters, new and old, the breeziness of the narration, and Sookie herself, whom I now find to be amusingly overconfident in her own intelligence. Also, it turns out she is quite tartier that I originally thought, based on the events of "Gift Wrap."
All in all, this book is a nice entertainment, especially for Sookie enthusiasts and series completists. Wouldn't care to pay a hard cover price for it though.
Books August 16, 2010 Patricia Humm I don't think this is the short story book that I was looking for...but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It would be nice if it were specific if these were the short stories to be read between the books in the series.
Complete Rubbish August 12, 2010 Elizabeth Lehtonen I absolutely love True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Series; I've read all the books and (to the greater degree) have loved all of them as well...
But these short stories were some of the worst I have ever read. I have read way better fan fiction. Maybe one of the stories wasn't completely far fetched, but the others were just odd.
I mean, Sookie's outside chilling with Bubba raking her leaves? Really? Eric freaking out over Dracula? Talk about out of character. Sookie and Amelia being sleuths? What is this Nancy Drew?
The stories took such a stretch for me in regards to how the characters actually are, that I couldn't take any of it seriously. And the stories, for what they were, were too short. I was expecting something a bit more like Janet Evanovich's "between the numbers" which are generally a good 150 pages. These stories seemed to average about 20? (reading on kindle so hard to say).
No matter how much you love this universe, this isn't worth it.
A must have for Sookie fans! August 11, 2010 Libertie Smith (Austin, TX) I was so happy to find tthis collection! These stories have been published in collections with other authors, and I did at some point purchase and read all of those, but I would have much preferred to have been able to just purchase this collection.
I love that at the beginning Charlaine Harris explains where each story falls into place within the series. If you're just starting the series, you'll find it really helpful to read each story where in bleongs among the books - don't read any ahead of a book because there are a lot of spoilers!!
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