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      Annual Editions: Organizational Behavior 02/03 (Annual Editions)
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                        Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 10)
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                        The "steamy" (Booklist) Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel that took Laurell K. Hamilton to a whole new level is now in paperback.

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                        "With the highly-acclaimed Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton?s vampire hunter, Anita Blake, came into her own. She survived a supernatural onslaught unlike any she had ever faced before?and she did it without the two men in her life. Now, six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. For her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the triumvirate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable. But when a kidnapper targets innocents that Anita has sworn to protect, she needs all the help she can get. In a earth-shattering union, Anita, Jean-Claude and Richard merge the marks?and melt into one another. Suddenly, Anita can harness both their powers. She can feel their hearts?hear their thoughts?know their hungers? Nothing can save Anita from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity?to finally surrender to the bloodlust, the beast, and the desire transforming her body and consuming her soul? "

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                        3 out of 5 stars Super Reader.......2007-08-26

                        Back to the erotica themes. The adversary in this one basically runs a deadly supernatural BDSM club of an often particularly nasty kind.

                        Anita discovers that she has Jean Claude's s*x you up, give you the horn and s*x slave you vampire ardeur powers.

                        She also adds being master of a vampire to her ever growing list of supernatural abilities and titles, and gets herself yet another boyfriend, a new male wereleopard in town.

                        There is just enough of a plot in there to keep some interest.

                        Threesomes abound for this chick.

                        4 out of 5 stars Try, try again.......2007-08-26

                        This was the first Anita Blake novel I picked up, and hard as I tried, it just didn't work for me. I couldn't find a plot, there were sooo many characters and the kink was kinda bland.

                        So...having heard so many times how great the series is, I was a good little reader and went back and started at the beginning of the series and read in order. Okay...now I get it.

                        Some fans seem to be seriously turned off by the sexual content, but really, considering that Anita is a succubus in the making, it works. She's also a bit of a prude being thrown into the deep end, she's not sluttish, and has major issues with her new physical nature. Frankly, the ardeur is a lot less creepy than Anita channeling the munin of Raina.

                        This book is the beginning of a story arc that seems to resolve in book 15, Harlequin. Serious characters are stepping up here that will have big influence on where the future books go: Nathanial, Jason, and Asher, as well as the current Swan King. Oh...Micah...forgot about him. The author seems to want really bad to make Micah work, but for some reason, his character is really slow in developing, even in later books. Narcissus is just a seriously creepy fellow, and I'm glad he's still with us. Richard continues to be a wild card, a flawed hero who can throw a major monkey wrench into Anita's story. Ya love him, ya hate him. Long may he live...

                        1 out of 5 stars Ugh ... Book burning anyone???.......2007-08-07

                        One Redeeming quality: if I run out of toilet paper, I can put this to use as my ancestor's did the Sears catalog.

                        The author totally trashed this series, we have the Vampire Humper meets the Hardback Whore.

                        What a pity.

                        I strongly recommend you try something by any of the following authors instead: Charlaine Harris (I love her Shakespeare series), Jim Butcher, Wen Spencer, Patricia Briggs, Rebecca Bradley, Lilith Saintcrow, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Lois McMasters Bujold.

                        Life's too short to read crap.

                        RIP Anita Blake.

                        1 out of 5 stars As bad a book by a popular writer as I have ever read.......2007-08-01

                        This is something of a joint review. I recently finished two novels in the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton: OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY and NARCISSUS IN CHAINS. These represent respectively, in my opinion, perhaps the best and the worst novels in the sequence and highlights both Hamilton's strengths and many weaknesses as a writer. By approaching why I think the earlier novel is quite good and why the latter is so dreadful hope to get at the reasons I've had such a love-hate relationship with the Anita Blake series.

                        There is something of a formula in the Anita Blake novels: the less sex, the better the book. I'm hardly a prude and sexual content in a novel certainly doesn't bother me. I'm not a home schooler type who fears that any content with sexual matters will corrupt the soul and send one to hell. But neither do I subscribe to the fallacy that writing about sex makes for a better novel. The philosopher Wittgenstein once wrote that raisins make for a better cake, but that didn't mean that too many raisins made a better cake. On sexual matters everyone is going to have their own idea of what constitutes good or bad, interesting or uninteresting sex. In my humble opinion, few writers deal with sex less ably than does Ms. Hamilton. Much of the time when she writes of sex I'm put in mind of the covers those romance novels for which Fabio posed for covers. The passages in her novels that deal with sex are among the most cringe-worthy that I have ever encountered and I often find myself skipping entire paragraphs or pages or groups of pages to escape her libidinously challenged characters. And from what I read in the reviews of her books by other readers, I don't appear to be alone in this. In fact, I seem to be a part of a solid majority.

                        OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY has less sex than almost any of the Anita Blake books apart from some of the very early ones. I don't think it is a coincidence that it is perhaps her best book. Because there is so little sex and so little of the horrid love triangle between her and Jean-Claude (my nominee for one the worst characters in fiction) and Richard (can I have two nominees?). I have read the Anita Blake novels because I enjoy the alternative universe that Hamilton has created with vampires, werewolves, fairies, and other supernatural entities living in civil society alongside nonempowered human beings. In reading the books I want that world explored. Instead, we get way too much laboring over poor Anita's sex life. Who gives a flip! A lot of sex does not make these books interesting. The alternative universe I described above is what makes these books fun.

                        OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY is great because we focus on a number of characters--some over the top admittedly--with whom Anita is not sexually involved. This forces Hamilton to focus on the world she has created. Anita goes to New Mexico to help her associate Edward solve a series of bizarre murders. The action takes place during a time during which Anita is spending time away from both Richard and Jean-Claude (if only she had left both for good!). Apart from Edward we meet none of the characters who have become fixtures in the previous novels. The action is great, the story compelling, and the situation described is unique and fascinating.

                        Unfortunately, Hamilton seems to have failed to learn the lessons OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY should have taught her. Instead, in NARCISSUS IN CHAINS she reverts to the increasing sexuality that afflicted BLUE MOON and earlier books. I read OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY in three or four days. It took me nearly a month to read NARCISSUS IN CHAINS and even then I toyed with the idea of quitting the entire series. I am something of a completist and if I read one book in a series I usually like to read all. But after this most recent clunker I may join those other Anita Blake readers who found this to be the final straw. Instead of keeping the sex minimal as in OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, she ratcheted up the sex to a degree unknown in any previous novel in the series. There were chapters in this book that I found to be close to unreadable there was so much poorly written sex. As bad as Anne Rice is writing about sex (unless you happen to be a sadomasochist), Hamilton is worse.

                        But sex isn't the only reason Hamilton is such a terrible writer. She violates one of the most important rules of writing: she constantly puts at the heart of her books incoherent, incomprehensible concepts. For comparison, there is a deeply flawed book by the Sci-fi novelist Robert Heinlein entitled STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND. The flaw lies in the fact that a central character, a Martian, is supposed to be deep and wise and insightful, all of which others can only recognize if they can speak Martian. But since the reader cannot speak Martian, we have to accept the testimony of the characters that this character truly is wise and sage. In the same way, we are supposed to accept Hamilton's assumption that "power" can be used in the vague, sloppy, and absurd way that she employs it and still have it refer to something rather than nothing. Her characters are perpetually sensing the power of other characters. Power paralyzes, intimidates, inspires, terrorizes, and afflicts her characters. But her concept of "power" puts me in mind of another philosopher, Gilbert Ryle and his famous essay "Systematically Misleading Expressions." Every sentence in which she employs the concept "power" is a sentence that does no real work because there is nothing in human experience to which her concept of "power" can denote. It is a nonsense word as she employs it and all she can do is concoct more and more nonsense. I find every passage in which one character feels the "power" of another to be infuriating, because we are just supposed to take her word for it that such a thing is possible. One reason that I find BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER so marvelous is that Joss Whedon and his writers never have to leave the kind of existence that we normal human beings experience to tell any of his stories. Yes, he has vampires and monsters, but he never introduces vague and unintelligible ideas like "power." He would be ashamed to do so.

                        Up to a hundred pages from the end of NARCISSUS IN CHAINS I was convinced that it was going to be my last Anita Blake novel. Luckily, those last hundred pages reminded me of why I continued in the series to begin with. They were exciting, suspenseful, and thrilling, everything the first five hundred pages of the novel were not. I'll try one more novel, but at this point I'm so tired of the horrid tangle of over-sexualized relationships that Hamilton has concocted that it won't take much for me to quit for good. In reading the various reviews others have written here I wonder if she has misread her audience. Perhaps she thinks fans really love the sex and that is why they read the books. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps there are legions of readers who think the sex is the highpoint. I don't discount the possibility. I find AMERICAN IDOL to be almost inconceivably boring, so obviously I'm not always a good judge as to what most people like. But for my part, I'd love to see more books in the Anita Blake series like OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY and fewer like NARCUSSUS IN CHAINS.

                        3 out of 5 stars I can see how others viewed the series going downhill.......2007-05-29

                        I wasn't impressed with this installment at all. The shower scene w/Micah was just...unclassy. Even getting past that part then Anita gets all protective of him. So what if they're one part of a whole (Nimir-ra & Nimir-raj)? The whole discovery of the ardeur was interesting but it took so long to all pan out. Then bringing Damian back from the cross-bound coffin was supposed to be this huge deal yet they got through it so quickly, with the only side effect Anita passing out from the hot tub. As in the other recent books all the men fall over themselves for Anita. There was barely any mystery/crime going on. It seemed like it was thrown in just to keep the theme of Anita's day job involved. Many of the better previous novels had a crime theme w/romance-erotic overtones. this one was the opposite.
                        Nightshade Tavern (Obsidian Butterfly & Narcissus in Chains)
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                        4 out of 5 stars The fourth hardback collection of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels.......2006-06-13

                        "Nightshade Tavern" is the fourth hardcover collection of multiple Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. Previously we had "Club Vampyre," which collected "Guilty Pleasures," "The Laughing Corpse," and "Circus of the Damned"; "The Midnight Cafe" bought together "The Lunatic Cafe," "Bloody Bones," and "The Killing Dance"; while "Black Moon Inn" combined "Burnt Offerings" and Blue Moon" and constituted a shift in these reprints from 3-in-1 to 2-in-1, which is more to our liking. The two novels published together this time are the ninth and tenth in the Anita Blake series, "Obsidian Butterfly" and "Narcissus in Chains," and from the perspective of today, as we await the fourteenth novel in the series, it becomes clear that there is a significant break between the two novels included here. Suffice it to say that many fans of the series consider the first of these efforts to be the last great, or even really good, Anita Blake novel. Consequently, this might be as far as some readers will go, but they are certainly encouraged to progress to this point.

                        "Obsidian Butterfly" was the long-awaited Anita Blake novel in which Edward the Bounty Hunter finally calls in the favor our heroine owes him for his services back in "The Killing Dance." So Anita heads to New Mexico, where something is out ripping the bodies of some people apart while removing all the skin from others. Whatever type of monster this might be, it is something so bad that even Edward is spooked. Anita is spooked because Edwards, in his cover identity as "Ted," has a girlfriend who has two children. If all this was not troubling enough throw into the mix the two other backups Edward has enlisted, Olaf, the serial-rapist who keeps threatening Anita, and Bernardo, who keeps trying to hit on her, as does Ramirez, a local cop. Oh, and did I mention she has been celibate for months? This title around the title refers to both a bar and the English name of Itzpapalotl, the vampire Master of the City, which serves to indicate that whatever it is that is out there has something to do with Aztec mythology. One again, Anita Blake, vampire hunter/animator/necromancer has her hands full.

                        Laurell K. Hamilton is perhaps the finest writer of horror stories around as in book after book in this series she comes up with gruesome scenes that match the best you can find in Stephen King or Clive Barker. In "Obsidian Butterfly" this comes when the last of a group of flesh-eating zombies on a killing spree in a hospital makes its way into the nursery. The main problem with the Anita Blake series, as others have pointed out, is that there is a sense in which things keep repeating themselves as our heroine mouths off to the wrong people, complains about her love life, and keeps calling herself a monster as her personal body count continues to rise. However, the basic mystery here and all its various involved sub-plots are combined in a compelling narrative that overwhelms the problems with characterization. One thing I especially liked about this ninth novel in the series is that yet another unknown aspect of Anita's power did not make itself known at the key moment. In fact, given some of the climaxes of the previous volumes, there is a simple elegance to how our heroine dispatches the monster this time around. On balance, "Obsidian Butterfly" is one of the best novels in the series, ironically helped by the fact that Jean-Claude and Richard are, with minor exceptions, absent from the story.

                        When we got to "Narcissus in Chains," the tenth Anita Blake novel, is was impossible not to ambivalent about what was happening this time around. This one starts off like a typical Anita Blake novel with our heroine has been ignoring both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of St. Louis, and Richard, Ulfric of the local werewolf clan. So, once again, horror literature's most dysfunctional love triangle appears to be moving back to square one. But then we have an interesting twist. Usually Anita manifests another new dimension to her growing powers at the end of the novel, in term to help her out of the horrendous climatic confrontation where people she cares about are about to get killed by the new bad thing in town. However, this time around Anita is almost fatally injured in a fight. A weresnake is trying to rip her heart out of her chest when Gregory, one of her pard's wereleopards, forcible removes the attacker's hand. But in the process his claws something vital and now Anita is showing all the signs of preparing for a transformation in a wereleopard, which would make her a true Nimir-Ra. It looks like Anita might not have any choice about embracing the monster inside her (and we have to wonder what Edward would think of this development, especially given the events of the previous novel).

                        This time the title refers to a S&M Club run by a werehyena with a penchant for names from Greek mythology, is one of the faster paced Anita Blake novels. Basically Anita has to go through a series of rescue missions, such as saving Nathaniel from the sex club, Jean-Claude from jail, Gregory from the wrath of Richard's pack, Damian from being chained in a cross-covered coffin, and on and on and on. In addition to the possibility of turning into a lycanthrope, Anita has two additional complications. First, she had picked up Jean-Claude's "ardeur," which is basically a lust that goes well beyond sex. Second, she meets Micah Callah, who wants to be the Nimir-Raj of Anita's pard. The end result is that the unresolved love triangle has now been upped to at least a quadrangle, and that is before we even begin to figure out how Nathaniel and Asher fits into all this fun.

                        The sexuality of both the main character and the narrative had been building in recent novels, but I would make a conservative estimate that the amount of sex in "Narcissus in Chains" is easily double what we had in "Blue Moon" and "Obsidian Butterfly" combined. Hamilton has a hard time topping herself in each adventure in terms of horror and violence, so it is not surprising that she turns to other avenues. But even if Anita is becoming more comfortable with her sexuality and being nude among her pard, that does not mean the result of us are thoroughly enjoying the ride. The ending of "Narcissus in Chains" does turn out to be the traditional Anita-pulls-something-new-out-of-her-hat variety, along with what is becoming another cliche, the revelation of the villain's true identity. The problem is that at the conclusion of this novel we are encouraged to think that maybe, just maybe, Anita has finally resolved her relationship with Jean-Claude and Richard. But after reading the novels that follow this one it turns out Hamilton is just toying with us in that regard.

                        5 out of 5 stars Do not buy this book for this price!.......2006-01-05

                        As any Laurell K. Hamilton fan knows, her stories are THE BEST. I realize that this book is a resale item from someone other than Amazon.com, but you do not need to pay $50! I bought mine from the Science Fiction Book Club last month (11/2005)for $14! $50 is an UNBELIEVABLE mark up for an item that is still in print!
                        4 Titles By Hamilton in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series - Narcissus in Chains - Cerulean Sins - Incubus Dreams - Danse Macabre
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                          4 Titles By Hamilton in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series - Narcissus in Chains - Cerulean Sins - Incubus Dreams - Danse Macabre
                          Laurell K. Hamilton
                          Manufacturer: berkley
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                          Binding: Hardcover
                          ASIN: B000R49P5U

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                          Multiple books shipped as one item for your convenience. Save on Shipping/Handling charges.
                          7 Books: Burnt Offerings /The Killing Dance/ Incubus Dreams/ Blue Moon/ Obsidian Butterfly/ Micah / Narcissus in Chains (Unboxed Set of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Books)
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                            7 Books: Burnt Offerings /The Killing Dance/ Incubus Dreams/ Blue Moon/ Obsidian Butterfly/ Micah / Narcissus in Chains (Unboxed Set of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Books)
                            Laurell K. Hamilton
                            Manufacturer: various
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Paperback
                            ASIN: B000W251LE

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                            7 Books: Burnt Offerings /The Killing Dance/ Incubus Dreams/ Blue Moon/ Obsidian Butterfly/ Micah / Narcissus in Chains (Unboxed Set of Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Books), , Shipped in one package to save on shipping costs.
                            ANITA BLAKE 8 BOOK SET[PAPERBACK,ORIG.JOVE] (anita blake, 8 books[burnt offerings/circus of the damned/blue moon/laughing corpse/narcissus in chains/obsidian butterfly/micah/bite)
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                              ANITA BLAKE 8 BOOK SET[PAPERBACK,ORIG.JOVE] (anita blake, 8 books[burnt offerings/circus of the damned/blue moon/laughing corpse/narcissus in chains/obsidian butterfly/micah/bite)
                              laurell k hamilton
                              Manufacturer: jove
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                              Binding: Paperback
                              ASIN: B000S6OTMQ

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                              here are 8 books in the bestselling anita blake vampire hunter series!!
                              Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, 1-14)
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                                Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, 1-14)
                                Laurell K. Hamilton
                                Manufacturer: Ace/Jove
                                ProductGroup: Book
                                Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                                ASIN: B000RJOETC

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                                A complete set of the first 14 books in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. In chronological order as published, they are: Guilty Pleasures; The Laughing Corpse; Circus of the Damned; The Lunatic Cafe; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance; Burnt Offerings; Blue Moon; Obsidian Butterfly; Narcissus in Chains; Cerulean Sins; Incubus Dreams; Micah; Danse Macabre
                                Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre)
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                                  Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre)
                                  Laurell K. Hamilton
                                  Manufacturer: Berkley
                                  ProductGroup: Book
                                  Binding: Hardcover
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                                  1. The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15) The Harlequin (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 15)

                                  ASIN: B000Q9MFG2

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                                  Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human.
                                  Narcissus in Chains
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                                    Narcissus in Chains
                                    Laurell K. Hamilton
                                    Manufacturer: Berkley
                                    ProductGroup: Book
                                    Binding: Hardcover
                                    ASIN: B000OPDF80
                                    3 Titles By Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (9-11) : 9. Obsidian Butterfly 10. Narcissus in Chains 11. Cerulean Sins
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                                      3 Titles By Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (9-11) : 9. Obsidian Butterfly 10. Narcissus in Chains 11. Cerulean Sins
                                      Laurell K. Hamilton
                                      Manufacturer: Jove
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                                      Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                                      ASIN: B000W9KO6Y

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