Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series #1)
15 journalers for this copy...
This is the book that started it all. The first of the Anita Blake series. MOST EXCELLENT!
Book Description
No one knows the dark desires of the soul better than New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. In Guilty Pleasures, she introduces Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Anita's small, dark, and dangerous. But when the city's most powerful vampire comes to her for help, Anita is faced with her greatest fear--a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own...
"Why should it surprise me that I was alive?...
There on the right side of my neck was the real thing.. Tiny, diminutive, fang marks. Nikolaos [had] contaminated me... I bet she thought I'd be scared of her. She was right on that. But I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal."
PM me if you'd like to join. Be sure to specify which rings you want to join since each book will be shipped separately, as well as your shipping preferences. If you're joining the ring after it's already started its journey, know that your place in the list will be determined based on your geographic location in conjunction with what is best for the other participants. While I'll certainly take your shipping preferences into account during list ordering, I don't like to always stick the same person with International shipping costs every time. So if you're going to participate in the rings for the entire series, at least 10 of which will be International rings, you should plan to have to ship Internationally at least once, unless there are enough others to pass the cost around to.
Ring Participants (last modified 23-Jan-2006)
· NeedSun, Ontario, Canada (ship Intl)
· jarrett622, Virginia, USA (ship ?)
· Aramena (formerly casseytara), Oklahoma, USA (ship Intl)
· AngelKitty, Colorado, USA (ship US)
· CdnBlueRose, Colorado, USA (ship Intl)
· midwinter, Arizona, USA (ship US)
· morpha, Oregon, USA (ship Intl)
· Pyan, Wisconsin, USA (ship Intl/surface)
· geniedances, Texas, USA (ship Intl) (to Aus. via GPM)
· gypsyrose02, Western Australia (ship Intl/pref Aussie) **
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· GateGypsy, Japan (ship Intl) (moving back to Canada Dec 05)
· fungirl503, OR, USA (ship Intl)
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· thegoaliegirl, OH, USA (ship pref US)
· CheriePie, Massachusetts, USA <== returned to me
Below participants moved to ring for 2nd copy:
· Sunneschii, Switzerland (ship Europe)
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· sweetf, UK (ship Intl/surface)
· Margih, Finland (ship Europe)
· CandyDarling, Finland (ship Intl)
· jessicaloveyou, Singapore (ship Intl)
** Shipped via surface mail to GateGypsy's Canada address on Oct 7 which according to gypsyrose02 should've taken about 4 months to get there (approx Feb 06). But it arrived early—on Dec 14 instead. Woohoo! In any case, since I thought this would hold up the ring considerably and cause problems for those on the list for books 2-4 who haven't yet read this first book in the series, I acquired a 2nd copy of this book to complete the ring for the remaining overseas participants.
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INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
Do not assume that surface shipping is always the most efficient choice. For many International destinations from the US, a single paperback can be shipped in a small Global Priority Mail (GPM) envelope for only $5, about $1 more than surface mail to the same destination. And rather than the 4-6 weeks quoted shipping time of surface mail (often longer), GPM takes only 3-5 days and includes a delivery confirmation number too. I strongly suggest that anyone joining any of my rings consider this shipping option when mailing overseas from the US. The minute any one of my PC books gets lost in shipping is the day I'll stop offering bookrings for my PC books altogether.
I'll specifically arrange the ring order so that the inital overseas journey from the US goes to a country that accepts the Global Priority Mail option, and if you're the one responsible for that trip, you'll probably be hearing from me directly as well. The list is ordered most efficiently, to minimize both shipping costs and times.
THANKS AND HAPPY READING!
Released 19 yrs ago (11/26/2004 UTC) at Bookring in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Kicking off this bookring by mailing first to NeedSun in Canada. Will be posted at PO on Friday via Airmail Letter Post, and is being mailed along with 2 other LKH books I'm lending her. Enjoy!
I'll be sending this off to jarrett622 to day or tomorrow.
Thanks again CheriePie, you have turned me onto a whole new genru.
I'll be mailing this out to casseytara the first part of this week.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!
On its way to CdnBlueRose.
Anita's sassy and gritty and a very welcome addition to the lengthy list of vampire fiction. Hamilton manages to bring the fun back to some tired cliches, and the book is an extremely fast read. Can't wait for book 2!
Passing on to morpha today...
I enjoyed this book very much. The action kept me turning pages until far past bedtime.Like AngelKitty, I was fascinated with the culture of the Undead. I had previously read two of the most recent books in this series, so I have a deep appreciation for the author's development of recurring characters during the course of the series.
One small disappointment, I would have liked to have been able to witness the "coming out" of the Undead into mainstream culture, and would have liked to follow Anita from the start of her career.
Mailing out to Pyan today.
Please don't send a ring to the next person without knowing if they still want to receive. In addition to that consideration, people may have moved or be on vacation.
Right now my life is in chaos, I have two friends in the hospital and no time for rings. If I'd been contacted, I would have requested to be skipped. Now, I have to pay postage to send these on to the next person when they should have been sent directly to the next person.
Edited to Add: I've PM'd grover3d.
PMing geniedances.
Released 18 yrs ago (8/17/2005 UTC) at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Mailing to geniedances -- enjoy!
almost cried with the whole phillip situation, but ill let you all read it.
just waiting for a reply from dudesgirl.
Wow, after the confusion I caused back in October, I was *definately* surprised to find this book in the pile of parcels my father had collected for me! *laughs* I will get to this book ASAP... after I finish the last 200-odd pages of the book I was reading on the plane home.
Thanks for starting this ring, CheriePie! Looking forward to the rest already!
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Hey, this was fun! I enjoyed the characters, and particularly liked that sex and the sensuality of vampires was used merely as fact, not plot dependant fodder for filling pages. I mean, that's all fine and dandy, and if the books get more toward that, I doubt I'll complain, but it's always nice to read a book that doesn't have to lean on that crutch. I thought that.. thing... Jean... did... was interesting... and am looking forward to finding out more about what will happen next. I've noticed, though, that Anita Blake has a few similarities to Merry Gentry of her faerie princess trilogy (the short stature, feisty nature, and affinity for firearms **laughs**) -- makes a reader wonder about the author (is she short? Does she *wish* she was?) It's a pity I have to wait so long for the rest of the books, but I eagerly await their arrivals, 'cause I get the idea this series is gunna be engaging.
This book is going to head out to the next person on the list.
Released 18 yrs ago (2/5/2006 UTC) at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, RABCK in Portland, Oregon USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
this book is going to thegoaliegirl
Will mail home on Monday to CheriePie!
I'd like to see this copy continue to travel and acquire even more journal entries so I plan to release it at the Toronto BC convention I'm attending in April 2006.
Released 17 yrs ago (5/1/2006 UTC) at
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Sending to editorgrrl via First Class mail on 5/1/06 as part of the Keep it moving reverse wishlist relay at http://bookrelay.com/relay.php?id=1114.
I loved this book. It raises (no pun intended!) some legal questions the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries and the Undead books haven't: If you're undead, do your heirs have to give back your money? If your spouse becomes a vampire, are you still married or is he/she dead? I've just requested the next Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book, The Laughing Corpse, from PaperbackSwap -- then there are 12 more to find. Can't wait!
From the publisher
Published over ten years ago by Ace, Guilty Pleasures marked the debut of a series that was destined to grow from cult favorite to a major New York Times bestseller. Now, for long-time Anita Blake junkies and newfound fans, Guilty Pleasures makes its trade paperback debut. Readers will learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead -- and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire destined to become not only her biggest nemesis, but her greatest lover.
From the back cover
No one knows the dark desires of the soul better than New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. In Guilty Pleasures, she introduces Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Anita's small, dark, and dangerous. But when the city's most powerful vampire comes to her for help, Anita is faced with her greatest fear -- a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own . . .
"Why should it surprise me that I was alive? . . .
There on the right side of my neck was the real thing . . . Tiny, diminutive, fang marks. Nikolaos [had] contaminated me . . .I bet she thought I'd be scared of her. She was right on that. But I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal."
Released 17 yrs ago (5/5/2006 UTC) at Never Ending Books, 810 State St. (btwn Pearl & Eld sts.) in New Haven, Connecticut USA
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