false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179268235m/895942.jpg 17231 31 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 <I>Darkly Dreaming Dexter</I>, as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time. <I>--Benjamin Reese</I> 2113743 2004 Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) total:5901|5:1340|4:2286|3:1668|2:482|1:126| 5901 21933 8426 1180 1 18 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 17:52:03 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 12:53:54 -0700 2008
The characters are two-dimensional cliches that can't tie th...more...]]> 5 7 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 15:26:51 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 06:23:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 07:06:08 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 07:59:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 08:30:50 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 23 06:31:55 -0800 2008 better! The books are good, and it's fun to get "inside the mind" of Dexter, but because the plot of the book follows pretty closely to the first season of the TV show, it w...more...]]> 1 3 false true Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jul 24 22:38:43 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 22:42:26 -0700 2007 I mean, the very idea that one traumati...more...]]> 2 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 20:40:09 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 21:01:07 -0700 2007 so I picked this up because I saw the Showtime series. I admit, I have become a big fan of the show, which is pretty smart and complex, despite its kind of silly premise. AND it's gruesome, which is always good. The book, however, lacks the depth and character development...more...]]> 2 4 false false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 19:34:23 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 03:30:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false true Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 11:48:33 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 13:52:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 24 06:55:37 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 18:02:19 -0700 2007
I love Dexter and his Dark Passenger. His sarcastic wit, his lizard brain, his fake girlfriend and actual love of little kids. His hobby-related career as a blood-splatter analyst by day, and his...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 24 11:06:52 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 11:15:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 07:22:31 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 09:58:16 -0700 2009 1 Darkly Dreaming Dexter is definitely not a typical "serial killer vs. police" novel. The protagonist, Dexter Morgan, works with the Miami P.D. analyzing blood splatter at crime scenes, and as a result he becomes involved in the city-wide search for a serial killer victimizing area prostitu...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 15:54:40 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 16:26:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 18 02:43:40 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 02:47:18 -0700 2008 Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay. It has formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter.
The novel's protagonist, Dexter Morgan, is a young man who works for the Miami Police Department as a forensic blood spatter pattern analyst. In his spare time, Dexter is a ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 23:18:51 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 23:18:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 10:24:25 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 10:31:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 04 08:15:59 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 25 15:54:14 -0700 2008 El Oscuro Pasajero como intermedio de Rant. Llegué al libro por la televisión.

Resulta que existe una serie llamada DEXTER, que ha sido un batacazo para Showtime y ¡yo la amo! Trata sobre un asesino en serie que sólo mata a asesinos en serie que el sistema no atrapa. Recomiendo a...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 09:18:20 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 15:04:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 05:39:58 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 06:02:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 12 10:44:58 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 07 10:24:31 -0700 2009 love Showtime's Dexter. If Dexter the TV show were a book, I'd give it 5 stars. I've held off on reading the books that the show is based on for a while, because I didn't want anything to sully my Dexter-love. Was it possible they could favorably compare?

Luckily, Jeff Lindsay's ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 21 12:10:41 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 13:10:39 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=895942