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  <title><![CDATA[The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2) ]]></title>
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  <default-description>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. Notice to Hollywood: forget &lt;I&gt;Buffy the Vampire  Slayer;&lt;/I&gt; Anita Blake is the real thing.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1994</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2) </original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laurell K. Hamilton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ 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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14538978">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 23:33:36 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 14 20:37:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11203327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4789955">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 19 20:19:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 19 20:20:50 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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? ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4789955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19587876">
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 06 14:23:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 06 14:23:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19587876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46147080">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicole]]></name>
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 09:40:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 12 09:50:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>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...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46147080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76112506">
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 08:59:20 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 08:59:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a lot of vampire love and/or slaying in this installment. This one is all about, yep you guessed it, zombies! My first real zombie fix to be honest. Anita is helping the police with some very gruesome murders that have been happening lately. As if being horrifically killed wasn't enough for the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76112506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72197627">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 22:03:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 22 22:25:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where the series starts to fall into place.  There is still the clunkiness when they try and move between the plot threads.  Nevertheless, the plot is brimming with good things.<br/><br/>The put-together monster is absolutely horrifying in a good, creepy, pulls-you-into-the-story, way.  Whil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72197627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54449143">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone old enough.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 29 23:26:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 05 20:59:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anita Blake is one of those books you can't stop reading.<br/>&quot;WOW&quot; was the first thought and the first word that left my mouth after the last sentence of the book faded from fresh and shocking to a permanent scar that was a remaining of a good thing, a memory that will never fad complete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54449143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6914511">
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    <name><![CDATA[kathleen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 16:58:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 27 16:59:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, so i take it back. maybe i AM sucked into this series. i couldn't stop thinking about the first one i read, so i went to barnes and noble recently and bought the next in the series. it was great, i couldn't wait to get home and read it every day. it's like junk food...not very nutritious but ohh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6914511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1834538">
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 10 20:25:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 10 20:25:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have tried and tried to like the anita blake series.  i just don't see where are the raves are coming from.  anita is annoying.  hamilton's writing is pathetically repetitive.  i gave up on the series at the beggining of lunatic cafe.  i can tolerate unimaginative writing, i'm not a book snob by a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1834538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60563158">
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    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 21 17:17:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 29 17:44:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I realized 50 pages into the second book of the series that I'm constantly comparing Anita Blake to Sookie Stackhouse (not to be confused with Ana Paquin :| ), and it's been getting in the way of my enjoyment. I finally let it go, and just in time. This book had everything that the Sookie series is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60563158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62609527">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 08 07:07:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 08 07:11:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Definitely deserves the five stars. The Laughing Corpse was better than Guilty Pleasures. I may end up re-reading this series multiple times if the rest of the books are this good. <br/> From the zombie hunt near the end and after I was completely glued to the book. I only put it down once at that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62609527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61317718">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jun 28 18:32:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was much better than the first one.  Anita was a little more likable.  Still sarcastic, but a lot less &quot;Naw&quot;s and &quot;Ri-i-ght&quot;s, which I found unbelievably annoying in book one.  A person just cannot sound intelligent while answering their own rhetorical questions with Naw.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61317718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22748293">
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  <read_at>Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 22 08:35:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is even more of a page turner than the first one. The story lines get better and better. The romance is developing too.  Very gory and descriptive of the murder scenes with children (gross) but full of action. ]]></body>
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    <review id="52094255">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After my rather mixed feelings for the first in the series, I thought I'd give the second book a try.<br/>I have to say: Hamilton does know how to tell a really gory tale, rife with blood and death (not all of it necessary, in my opinion). I can see why some people would enjoy the book.<br/>Howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52094255">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 23 10:14:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am about half way through this book.  It is a good read, but I personally just don't care too much for the main character, Anita Blake.  She can be annoying at times.  I am liking book 2 in this series a little more than book 1.  <br/><br/>Laurell K Hamilton has a gift for making the characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49221722">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 04 11:55:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 06 07:55:57 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never seen a better example of a Mary Sue character in my life.  Terrible book.  ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 12:54:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 02 20:48:52 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually picked up this book on a whim, not realizing it was actually #2 in a series. Despite this fact, I was completely hooked.  I went back and read Guilty Pleasures, and then went on to read all of the books in the Anita Blake series. (Skin Trade is on hold at the library as I speak).  I thoro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76503550">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 07:48:55 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 12 07:48:55 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun series--before it turned into mindless sex scene after sex scene.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charlotte, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 14 18:41:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 12:54:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is just OK. The action was good but the setup was lame. OK so the nasty killer zombie killed families and ate children. Do we have to have full-page descriptions of the visuals? The idea is nasty enough without the gruesome details. I will say though, I have complained before about heroines who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59669563">more...</a>]]></body>
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