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Tarfumes.com - Dearly Devoted Dexter: A Novel
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List Price: $22.95
Our Price: $98.00
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385511247
ISBN: 0385511248
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2005-07-19
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: 2005-07-19
Studio: Doubleday
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He’s a charming monster . . .
A macabre hero . . .
A serial killer who only kills bad people
Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It’s just not easy being an ethical serial killer—especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac . . . which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the world’s first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?
In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miami—a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexter’s dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective) is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monster—but it isn’t until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first . . .
With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.
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Summary: The Show is so much better!
Comment: I am so glad that I was introduced to the tv show before I started to read the books. The show is better and keeps getting better while the first book was good, the second was just very boring. If I had read the books first I would not have watched the show.
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Summary: Great companion to the Showtime series
Comment: I was a fan of the Showtime series first and wanted to know the genesis. Now I'm a fan of both. They are inter-changeable though not identical; i.e. one doesn't spoil the other. I like the character better in the TV series, he's more cute(ish) and less obsessional. Dexter's ruminations in the novel are sometimes tedious and his self obsession with alliteration is too much. BUT, it's a fun read and if you like the show, you'll like the book. .
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Summary: Departure from the show
Comment: The first book is genius, and the first season of Dexter on Showtime is based heavily on it.
The second book is a major departure from the second season of Dexter. The two are barely comparable. So, don't buy this book if you want it to be close to that.
However, that said, the book really is very good. The author plays with characters in ways that many authors are afraid to. Death, being maimed, and serious issues plague the characters that you may have come to love in the first book.
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Summary: Dexter Part 2
Comment: Again, another great book. Dexter is a wonderful character. All I can say is that Jeff Lindsay does it again!
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Summary: Dexter - the killer you root for!
Comment: I am a huge Dexter fan. If you are discovering Dexter because of the TV show, you will be pleasantly surprised as the books do differ in the plot than the TV show!
Dexter is the serial killer you root for, as he tracks down really bad guys and disposes of them in a way the police cannot!
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