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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. i've never watched the television series - so i'm speaking directly from reading the book. go out and get your copy NOW, if you're at all a fan of this genre. it's completely enchanting the way this dark book is laced with humor and heart. 'darkly dreaming dexter' is the first in this book series - and i'd say it's by far the best - but the other two are definitely worth checking out as well. i fell in love with dexter from the very first chapter. five stars for me. (  )brokenmuse21 | Jul 9, 2009 |   Dexter Morgan works as a blood splatter analysis for the Miami Police. Oh, and on his spare time he's a serial killer. But don't worry, he only kills the bad guys - those that really have it coming. When Miami is plagued by a brutal serial killer murdering and dismembering hookers, Dexter finds himself unwillingly and unexpectantly drawn in by the case. Who is the killer, and why is he so interested in Dexter? This fast and exciting read will have you on the edge of your seatthe through the entire read. (  )RedBowlingBallRuth | Jul 6, 2009 | This short novel is a dark and amusing tale of a serial killer. I would give the main character and story premise, five stars for originality and dark humor. But the overall story is just average. This is one of the very rare times when I think the television show is better. (  )etznab | Jul 3, 2009 | I read this book after becoming addicted to the TV show. The TV show is much more dryly, darkly humourous whereas more of the elements of horror novels come though in the book. (The first season of the TV show roughly follows the first novel.) With the right narrator, the humour might be more obvious, but with the way I read, it was easy to miss some of the subtle observations. Dexter is one of the very, very rare cases where I actually prefer the video version to the print version. Also, in Lindsay's version, Dexter is the host to the "Dark Passenger", a demon who is driving him to act. I liked the show's twist of having Brian court Deborah, which would not have worked in the compressed novel plot. The novel is told in first person, so the reader mostly sees into Dexter's mind and life, without the show's insights into the other characters. ( )ktoonen | Jul 3, 2009 | I'm a huge fan of the tv series. This book lived up to the promise, although the series actually added to the story, and in a good way. But the book still holds up great. Going to read the next one soon :-) (  )pophyn | Jun 25, 2009 | 0.039 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0307277887, Paperback)Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.
Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story.
Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter's learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other's "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?
Despite his penchant for vivisection, it's hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn't feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay's plot is tense and absorbing, but it's the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time. --Benjamin Reese (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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