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The Williamsburg Regional Library write a great review about DUD and gushes about audio version-If you haven't "listened" to a Sookie book you are REALLY missing out..
I fell in love with audiobooks about a year ago. They’re great to listen to while doing housework and driving to and from work. A month or two ago, I decided to give Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series a try, to see what it was I was missing. My husband loves these books, and I usually share his taste.
The main character, Sookie Stackhouse, is not a vampire, she’s a telepath. She lives with her grandmother and works as a barmaid at Merlotte’s, a bar in Bon Temps, a small town in Louisiana. Vampires have recently become legal citizens, after the Japanese develop a synthetic blood that makes it possible for vampires to live in the open, since they no longer need to hunt humans for sustenance.
Sookie falls in love with the first vampire who walks into the bar, an undead Civil War veteran named Bill Compton. Being a telepath makes relationships difficult, and Bill has a mind that is silent to Sookie. She loves that she can’t hear what he’s thinking.
Shortly after Sookie meets Bill and some of his undead friends, one of her coworkers turns up dead, and Sookie has reason to fear for her own life. There are at least two murders in the first book, and the solving of them wasn’t what made the mystery a good read. The fact that I can’t remember if there were two or three murders attests to that. They seemed almost incidental to the story, which was more of a humorous romance and vampire story than a mystery.
Listening to Johanna Parker reading Dead Until Dark is a lot of fun. She uses a Southern accent for Sookie and sounds like she’d fit right in in a small town in northern Louisiana. There’s a bit of gore, a bit of vampiric sex (which apparently is easy for the characters to become addicted to), and quite a bit of humor. Dead Until Dark is the first in the series. So far, there are eight volumes in the Southern Vampire mystery series with a ninth coming out this month. I’ve gone through three so far and am about to start on the fourth.
Check the WRL catalog for the audiobook, Dead Until Dark
Check the WRL catalog for the book, Dead Until Dark
http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/dead-until-dark-by-charlaine-harris/
3 comments:
Dallas,
I've listened to this audiobook, and think the narrator does a fine job. I can easily picture Sookie while listening. But I must confess that I have a hard time "suspending disbelief" when she reads the male characters. Maybe it's because I haven't listened to other audiobooks. Do you have any suggestions that could help me get past my mental block?
Hey Rose ..yes, listen to more audio books there are some very fine audio book "voices"
Judge an audio book by how exciting it is to listen to and how well the action and emotion is conveyed.
I don't think there are audio books where women read women parts and men read the male parts it is just narrative. The different voices are so you can tell who's talking because you don't see ""
Many authors read their own books
This is the annual award for the best audio book page - enjoy! You can get a free day pass and listen to samples of all the best!
Make sure you listen to Neil Gaiman read from "The Graveyard book"
http://www.theaudies.com/
Dallas,
Thanks for the information. I've never heard of the "Audies" before. I agree, "The Graveyard Book" is a great read. I'll be sure to check out this website.
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