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The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #2)
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it.
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Paperback, 301 pages
Published
August 2nd 2005
by Berkley Trade
(first published September 1st 1994)
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This was TERRIBLE. Terrible!!! Why are you here book??? Why do you exist?? Why do you suck SO MUCH??? Ugh!! I was listening to this while walking to work in the morning, and I’m pretty sure I was waking up whole neighborhoods with my loud, “UGGGGHHHHHHH”s because I could not refrain from reacting to what a bitch this book is. This book is such a little bitch. It is not SO bad to start out with, just your normal Anita Blake bitchiness, like, “girls shouldn’t wear pink; girls shouldn’t shop; girls...more
I have read all of the Anita Blake series and The Laughing Corpse is the second book in the series. Again it is really great entertainment. I enjoy all the characters and the plot. Anita comes into more powers by being Jean Claude's human servant so you get to see that and also her zombie-raising skills come into play. The second book is definitely one of the good ones.
This book took my by surprise!
I have read it twice now, and there are parts that are still heart-wrenching.
In the second book of the Anita Blake series, The Laughing Corpse rips you from reality and tosses you unexpectedly into a world of voodoo, betrayal and forced submission.
Following the first book, this begins centered around Anita Blake and her job as an animator as well as the consulting work she does for the paranormal police division that investigates homocides that are obviously perfor...more
I have read it twice now, and there are parts that are still heart-wrenching.
In the second book of the Anita Blake series, The Laughing Corpse rips you from reality and tosses you unexpectedly into a world of voodoo, betrayal and forced submission.
Following the first book, this begins centered around Anita Blake and her job as an animator as well as the consulting work she does for the paranormal police division that investigates homocides that are obviously perfor...more
There was something about Hamilton's first, then second book that irritated the hell out of me, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Then one day I saw a picture of her on the book and I understood what it was. It annoys me when authors make themselves the hero/ine of their books, and then just change the name and the environment to make it fantasy fiction. But even more so when you must keep reading about how powerful, and how unconsciously sexy, and how tough that character is (*why* is she try...more
Note: this book is on my gruesome-horror shelf. Certain scene descriptions were disgusting and consequently depressing.
So far, this series is not what I expected. It is slightly grittier and not the least bit upbeat, but more along the lines of what I expect from quality dark urban-fantasy. I enjoyed this book more than the first, largely due to being more familiar with Hamilton's world and characters, something which is typical of long running series. The first books are usually the weakest. I...more
So far, this series is not what I expected. It is slightly grittier and not the least bit upbeat, but more along the lines of what I expect from quality dark urban-fantasy. I enjoyed this book more than the first, largely due to being more familiar with Hamilton's world and characters, something which is typical of long running series. The first books are usually the weakest. I...more
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Aslında uzun zamandır aklımda Anita'nın tüm kitaplarına yorum yazmak vardı ama niyeyse kısmet olmadı. Finallerin yarın olması bende her zaman ki gibi blogla uğraşma içgüdülerini tetikledi ve işte ben, kendimi Anita'nın 2. kitabını yorumlarken buldum.
Gülen ceset aslında Anita'dan okuduğum ilk kitaptır. Rastlantı sonucu bir sahafta elime geçmişti ve bende okumuştum. Kaç yıl öncesinden bahsediyorum inanın bilmiyorum. Düşünün o zamanlar daha ingilizcem iyi de...more
Aslında uzun zamandır aklımda Anita'nın tüm kitaplarına yorum yazmak vardı ama niyeyse kısmet olmadı. Finallerin yarın olması bende her zaman ki gibi blogla uğraşma içgüdülerini tetikledi ve işte ben, kendimi Anita'nın 2. kitabını yorumlarken buldum.
Gülen ceset aslında Anita'dan okuduğum ilk kitaptır. Rastlantı sonucu bir sahafta elime geçmişti ve bende okumuştum. Kaç yıl öncesinden bahsediyorum inanın bilmiyorum. Düşünün o zamanlar daha ingilizcem iyi de...more
One of the best things about Anita is her give no fucks attitude. She's all "You think you can take me zombie? Do you?! I think not." And bam, down goes the zombie and off goes Anita. It's all very fascinating.
4 stars cause it ran a bit long in the middle.
4 stars cause it ran a bit long in the middle.
The Laughing Corpse is a well written and action packed read.
Anita's character is fantastic, capable, practical and stubborn. The other major players in this story are intricate and colorful.
The mystery is better this time, though in retrospect a little unbelievable, even for this universe.
I enjoyed the character growth and the plot progression.
Over all a great read!
Anita's character is fantastic, capable, practical and stubborn. The other major players in this story are intricate and colorful.
The mystery is better this time, though in retrospect a little unbelievable, even for this universe.
I enjoyed the character growth and the plot progression.
Over all a great read!
Laurell K. Hamiltons' second book of the Anita Blake series was a little different from Guilty Pleasures, her first in that series. Different not in a good nor bad way...just different. Unlike the first book there wasn't too much action with the vampires. Seeing how it is an "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel" you would think there would be more vampires in the book. But as I progress in reading the series I see that Ms. Blake specializes in more than vampires. I wasn't disappointed but just fou...more
May 08, 2010
chucklesthescot
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
UF/PNR,vampire and horror fans
Anita is having another bad week. A rich man wants her to raise a zombie using human sacrifice but she refuses and this response does not go down well. She upsets a voodoo Queen who decides to have her killed by zombies. A fellow animator is murdered and what he raised is murdering innocent people all over town. Plus Jean-Claude is still trying to make her his human servant. Just another typical week for Anita...
What I like about Anita is that she isn't perfect. She kills vampires but she is sc...more
What I like about Anita is that she isn't perfect. She kills vampires but she is sc...more
OK, I did not enjoy the image of one more blood soaked carpet, with a baby blanket or a little small hand left in the coagualting carpet! ACK! I do love the silly world Anita Blake inhabits, where vampires have legal rights and zombie-raising is an acceptable occupation. Will vampires get the vote? Will Anita survive to see the answer? Stay tuned, kids, same bat time, same bat channel! (I loved tv's Batman, too!) This book was so gory, which I mention because it is like the elephant in the room...more
Even though I finished the story, I can't rate this book because it just wouldn't be fair to the author simply because I rarely read this genre. Occasionally when I see a lot of Goodreads friends who have similar tastes in books give a book a good review I'll give it a try and usually I'm glad I did. But, after finishing this second book I realize that this series is not for me. The heroine has got to be one of the most obnoxious I have ever encountered and frankly, I was hoping for more romance...more
This book has some very graphic 'sick shit'. It is a very dark book but at the same time enjoyable. It is the second in the Anita Blake series and I enjoy them enough to keep reading the series. I really enjoy the developing relationship between Jean-Claude and Anita that is in each book. You learn a lot more about Anita Blake and what has made her 'The Executioner' in this book. You also see her potential for darkness and I look forward to seeing where the next book takes us. Well worth the rea...more
For all the Anita Blake books - I started this series with my then friend, Meredith - she actually got me hooked that fateful summer of 2000 when I was living on her wooden floor in Brooklyn. We were both unemployed and bored and got hooked into this series. I loved Anita Blake because it was before I discovered the new genre - what I like to call "badass chicks who kick ass!" written in first person - and so she was all empowering and of course there were hot vampires and werewolves in it.
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Mouais... On ne peut pas dire que je n'aie pas aimé. J'ai accroché plus que pour le premier tome (en même temps, ce n'est pas compliqué). On ne peut pas dire que j'aie été conquise non plus. Mitigé donc !
En effet, l'histoire est originale, différente donc de ce que j'ai pu lire jusqu'à présent. Malheureusement, le thème du vaudou, je n'aime pas trop. J'ai été emballée jusqu'à environ la moitié du livre. Après, j'ai trouvé que ça commençait à devenir longuet. L'action est trop lente à mon avis. J...more
En effet, l'histoire est originale, différente donc de ce que j'ai pu lire jusqu'à présent. Malheureusement, le thème du vaudou, je n'aime pas trop. J'ai été emballée jusqu'à environ la moitié du livre. Après, j'ai trouvé que ça commençait à devenir longuet. L'action est trop lente à mon avis. J...more
Feb 24, 2013
Lindsey
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
read-in-2013,
tbr-challenge-2013
My library only had The Laughing Corpse available in this edition, so I decided to give reading the paperback a shot instead of an eAudiobook. I will say that as I read the books the voice I hear telling the story is Kimberley Alexis' voice as Anita.
The Laughing Corpse didn't start as slow for me as Guilty Pleasures. It starts out with a possible new case right off and it gets interesting quick. Anita and her boss, Bert, make a house call where she is asked to raise a 300 year old zombie. This...more
The Laughing Corpse didn't start as slow for me as Guilty Pleasures. It starts out with a possible new case right off and it gets interesting quick. Anita and her boss, Bert, make a house call where she is asked to raise a 300 year old zombie. This...more
Anita Blake is, or wants to be, deeply human. And as such, she is obsessively concerned with the protection of humans from the things that go bump in the night. To protect others, she is willing to put her very life on the line, but not her very soul, not unless that is the only way to protect others. As such, she can be irritating, infuriating, and a just plain pain-in-the-ass to the people (or creatures) who want to protect her.
The question of humanity in the first three books that I have read...more
The question of humanity in the first three books that I have read...more
Dec 26, 2012
Nic Echo
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Nic by:
Peggy
About the Book:
Something is out there in St. Louis, and this something is tearing up families and leaving little more than chunks of meat. This is when RPIT, St. Louis' Regional Peternatural Investigational Team, calls in Anita to help solve the murders. This ends up leading her into a world of voodoo, where nightmares live even in the daylight hours. Then, if having an extremely powerful voodoo priestess after her wasn't enough, Anita also has to deal with Harold Gaynor, a wealthy man who is wa...more
Something is out there in St. Louis, and this something is tearing up families and leaving little more than chunks of meat. This is when RPIT, St. Louis' Regional Peternatural Investigational Team, calls in Anita to help solve the murders. This ends up leading her into a world of voodoo, where nightmares live even in the daylight hours. Then, if having an extremely powerful voodoo priestess after her wasn't enough, Anita also has to deal with Harold Gaynor, a wealthy man who is wa...more
This, more than any other in the series, is "the zombie novel." Anita Blake actually makes her living as an "animator," raising zombies for a last conversation where you can learn, oh, where they put the will, or at least get some closure. Vampires are only a side dish here, and much of this one is gruesome, gory, and just plain disgusting. So what it says about me that I loved it, I don't know. In fact, it really was in this novel, not the first Guilty Pleasures that I found Anita Blake addicti...more
I'm beginning to understand, now, why Hamilton ultimately turned the series into a sex fest.
Don't get me wrong, walking corpses are awesome! I'm one of the biggest deadheads out there (heck, one of my all-time greatest moments was meeting Romero himself). Frankly though, I'm still waiting to be impressed. There's something about our not-so-helpless heroine that I just don't like. She's just not all that relateable. Odd I know, since each entry in the Anita Blake series (so far) reads like a jour...more
Don't get me wrong, walking corpses are awesome! I'm one of the biggest deadheads out there (heck, one of my all-time greatest moments was meeting Romero himself). Frankly though, I'm still waiting to be impressed. There's something about our not-so-helpless heroine that I just don't like. She's just not all that relateable. Odd I know, since each entry in the Anita Blake series (so far) reads like a jour...more
This is of course, as you know, the second installment of the "Many adventures of Anita blake" :-)
Like before, Anita finds herself caught up in a little more trouble. Shoot me now, but I beleive this is only the begining of her problems since this is only book 2 of 17.
In this book Anita gets envolved with none other than...zombies, well what she beleives may be a zombie, but only reading the story will tell you exactly what is killing innocent families! A sick (not the cough-cough sort of way) c...more
Like before, Anita finds herself caught up in a little more trouble. Shoot me now, but I beleive this is only the begining of her problems since this is only book 2 of 17.
In this book Anita gets envolved with none other than...zombies, well what she beleives may be a zombie, but only reading the story will tell you exactly what is killing innocent families! A sick (not the cough-cough sort of way) c...more
The potential of the first book in the series begins to be realized here. The plot is intense and compelling, but the pacing is so much better than in "Guilty Pleasures." The narrative slows when it needs to, allowing the room that lets us breathe with the characters, stand in the room with them and see what they're seeing. Even -- especially? -- when what they're seeing is pretty dang gruesome. Jean-Claude remains a bit of a cipher (which I alleviated by imagining him as Tom Hiddleston, implyin...more
"A Laughing Corpse," by Laurell K. Hamilton is the second book of hers I've read. Put simply it's police procedural about an apparent zombie attack and who might unleash such an attack on St. Louis (which is a sentence that I have to admit I never thought I'd write).
The story rattles along at a fair old rate and because of that (and, because of its' lack of length) I finished it in three day. I'd recommend it to people who are a little bored with the more run of the mill murder mysteries.
I alway...more
The story rattles along at a fair old rate and because of that (and, because of its' lack of length) I finished it in three day. I'd recommend it to people who are a little bored with the more run of the mill murder mysteries.
I alway...more
This is a review of this book only, not the entire series.
The second book in the Anita Blake series is just about as good as the first. More zombie and ghoul focused, which I can definitely appreciate. Less vampire, more dark-and-creepy. Hamilton keeps the original tone in this second book, with lots of darkness, lots of gore, and a heroine that continues to kick ass and take names.
Again, the focus in this book is on the mystery. What's killing people? How does it tie into everyone else Anita...more
The second book in the Anita Blake series is just about as good as the first. More zombie and ghoul focused, which I can definitely appreciate. Less vampire, more dark-and-creepy. Hamilton keeps the original tone in this second book, with lots of darkness, lots of gore, and a heroine that continues to kick ass and take names.
Again, the focus in this book is on the mystery. What's killing people? How does it tie into everyone else Anita...more
It has always amazed me the sort of trouble Anita finds herself in. And, it isn't because she is a bad person, it is because she is a good person with some morals, despite all the killing she does, she is still one of the best super hero's I know. Laurell K.Hamilton has created a super hero that is real, a woman hero that the girls can look up to because of her kick butt and taking names attitude that comes with a side of sass and justice. I would be proud to grow up like her.
As the body count...more
As the body count...more
There are a new series of gruesome murders in the city and Anita, on retainer with the Spook Squad, has been called out to investigate some of the most blood saturated, brutal, violent crimes she’s ever had the displeasure to see.
And she sees a flesh-eating zombie – whether out of control or wilfully set on people by an animator, voodoo priest or necromancer. Either way, people are dying and being eaten and Anita needs to get some answers before she sees more bodies. Except investigating require...more
And she sees a flesh-eating zombie – whether out of control or wilfully set on people by an animator, voodoo priest or necromancer. Either way, people are dying and being eaten and Anita needs to get some answers before she sees more bodies. Except investigating require...more
Neste segundo livro da saga de Anita Blake, a famosa Executora mete-se novamente em sarilhos, mas desta vez o inimigo não é vampiro, mas sim alguém da raça da nossa forte e heróica protagonista.
Com muita acção, bastante diversa, suspense e combates/lutas bastante explícitas,torna-se uma leitura rica, entusiasta e que nos prende no primeiro momento.
Se com a sinopse, pensava, tal como eu, que tudo se desenrolaria ao redor do casamento da melhor amiga de Anita, Catherine, desengane-se, pois poucas...more
Com muita acção, bastante diversa, suspense e combates/lutas bastante explícitas,torna-se uma leitura rica, entusiasta e que nos prende no primeiro momento.
Se com a sinopse, pensava, tal como eu, que tudo se desenrolaria ao redor do casamento da melhor amiga de Anita, Catherine, desengane-se, pois poucas...more
Better than the first but I must question, if she's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" then where are the vampires?
I can honestly say that I wasn't enraptured by the first installment of the series, Guilty Pleasures, but what I felt was missing Hamilton remedied with this installment. This time around we actually get the chance to get to know who Anita is and not just what she does...even if what she does involves a fair amount of blood and innocent lives lost in this installment.
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I can honestly say that I wasn't enraptured by the first installment of the series, Guilty Pleasures, but what I felt was missing Hamilton remedied with this installment. This time around we actually get the chance to get to know who Anita is and not just what she does...even if what she does involves a fair amount of blood and innocent lives lost in this installment.
Among physco million...more
The second in the Anita Blake series. This book is darker than the first, and focused more on Anita the necromancer, as well as her role in the police force. Harold Gaynor offers her a million dollars to raise a zombie, but the person is long dead and requires a human sacrifice, something Anita is not willing to do. Meanwhile, something is breaking into homes and eating the inhabitants, something that doesn't bleed. It's up to Anita to use her animating powers and knowledge of the undead to help...more
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Laurell K. Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Berkley Books began with GUILTY PLEASURES and continues to thrive with over sixteen volumes to the series and an comic adaptation. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages. Hamilt...more
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