Top 10 Reasons To Stop Watching Season One of Felicity and Read This Book
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Introduction
So shoot me - I read Anne Rice in high school. And then I grew up and got over the whole vampire thing. Or so I thought until I read "Already Dead" by Charlie Huston.
Now before you all start whining that you only read what Oprah tells you to, I dare you to read the first chapter. "War and Peace" it ain't but it's the most fun you'll have in an easy chair. Well...maybe not, but you know what I mean.
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JOE PITT
The coolest, most bad-ass undead PI New York City has ever seen. Underneath his raw, ruthless, blood-sucking violence is just a guy who’s looking for love and a pint of blood. And hey, who isn’t?
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THE VAMPYRE CLANS THAT RULE NYC
Like Westside Story with the Jets and the Sharks – except this time they’re dead and their turf-war doesn’t involve finger-snapping and jazz-hands.
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MARILEE HORDE
The hot-mama socialite who hires Joe to find her runaway teenage daughter. The scene at the St. Regis’ King Cole Bar is classic – nothing says seduction like a married woman and several martinis.
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DEXTER PREDO
The Coalition Clan’s evil enforcer of…well, evil…who also hires Joe to find the teen. And honestly, the dude’s name is Dexter Predo – the coolest name ever.
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GOOD 'OLE FASHION VIOLENCE
‘member that time little Timmy broke your nose? Like that but worse. Think Tarantino meets Dracula meets Clint Eastwood – with the wild hilarity of Carl Hiassen. You’re intrigued, n’est pas?
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NEW YORK CITY
Yes, it’s been the locale of many a book but Charlie Huston does it justice (maybe because he used to live there?), from Pitt’s East Village haunts, to the uptown wealth of Marilee Horde, to the vampyre motorcycle gang that takes Pitt to the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s like a Fodor’s Nocturnal Travel Guide of Gore.
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LOVE
That’s right my friends, Already Dead is also that classic, timeless love story of a lonely vampire smitten with an HIV-infected bartender. Somewhere, somehow, it just might work.
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SURVIVAL
And you thought that moving out of your parents pad to live in a rat-infested tenement and become an underpaid assistant who eats mac’n cheese every night and maxes out their credit cards was survival. Ha! Check out the Joe Pitt: I’m A Rogue Vampyre Dammit and I’m Just Trying to Save a Snotty Spoiled Teen Survival Guide.
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JOE PITT
Did I mention the new man in my literary life, Joe Pitt? I’m willing to share. All I ask is that you keep him out of the sunlight and away from…
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BRAIN-EATING ZOMBIES!
Yeah baby! It’s the ingredient that every great oevre of literature is missing
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