Dexter Is Delicious

By: Jeff Lindsay

Narrated by: Jeff Lindsay

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

America’s most-read, most-watched, and most­ beloved serial killer - Dexter Morgan - is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular number one Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times best-selling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.

Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one stead­fast rule...he only kills very bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes - don’t we all? - and they’re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing...these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter.

Jeff Lindsay’s best-selling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our cul­ture.

More dastardly deeds desired? Listen to more Dexter.

©2010 Jeff Lindsay (P)2010 Random House Audio

The best so far!

When I saw that this episode of "Dexter" was narrated by the author, I was a bit dubious. But, within minutes, I was thrilled with Jeff Lindsay's reading, and liked this book best of all the Dexters so far! The touching, and funny metmorphosis that Dexter undergoes as he contemplates the new life of his daughter, Lily-Ann, strikes a true chord with every first time parent.
I hope Jeff is nearly done with Dexter number 6!

Significantly Better

While pretty predictable and not all that exciting, this is at least a TON better than the previous book in the series. I'd even call it worthwhile.

Get on with it!

Ugh, I have to agree with another reviewer that Jeff Lindsay is a good writer but an annoying reader. The guy that did the previous books was Dexter to me. The book starts out slowly with 20 minutes of how wonderfullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Dexter's new kid is. It gave me a headache.

Sorry, Jeff, we need a different narrator

I have loved all of the Dexter novels, but was very disappointed with this one. And I'm not sure if my disappointment with the story is not at least partially because of the poor narration. I have to wonder if this performance had been up to previous standards whether I might have enjoyed the book more. The narration was so flat it was difficult to get into the story. Or maybe the story was a little flat. I really don't know. I cannot recommend this book with this reader

Dexter is Delicious

Loved it! great sense of humor, well written and well read.

A fine addition to the Dexter series

Dexter Is Delicious is a delicious addition to Dexter's story; the plot progressed Brian's story line significantly, which is something I've been wondering about for a while.
The decision to allow Mr. Lindsay to narrate his own work, however, was unfortunate. While he is an excellent author, Jeff's narration lacked the wry tone set so superbly by the narrator of his previous novels. The only time Jeff seemed interested in this narration was when Dexter was killing someone; the rest of his words were rushed and so impersonal that he may as well have been humming the story line.

Dexter Disappointing...

I love Dexter, and for me Nick Landrum provides Dexter's perfect voice. He sounds like a psychopath, yet his voice is compelling and enjoyable. Not only has Landrum performed so admirably as the dark un-hero of Jeff Lindsay's wonderfully terrible novels, he has done so through the entire series and therefore embodies Dexter for many listeners. The switch to Lindsay himself as narrator is jarring and wrong. I understand an author wishing to give voice to his character and/or story; do so from the beginning or go back to the beginning and offer an author-narrated alternative for new readers. Do not, please I beg do NOT, take away the voice of my beloved character and replace him with a man who sounds completely different in every way. Lindsay sounds less confident than Landrum, much older, and far too "normal" to represent Dexter fairly. To top that off, the story is frustrating and stale, the Dexter series apparently having reached that point where the author begins faltering with the continued growth and development of the main character. The book was not bad, however, in comparison to the previous novels and the performances of those books, it falls short.

Hire a professional reader, please!

The book is good, but Jeff Lindsay decided to read the book himself. It ruined the entire experience. His emphasis was strangely placed and every female character spoke with a most irritating whine. It was bad.

3 Stars is being generous

I bought this audiobook 4 months ago. I listened through 3 chapters and found it so incredibly painful to get into that I ended up buying the Kindle book version and read it. I tried listening to it at work with coworkers thinking maybe doing work would distract me from Jeff Lindsay's terrible narrating but everyone agreed...it was a waste of money. Jeff Lindsay should stick with his day job. He is a great author. I had laughed at reviews thinking...how bad could it truly be? Please believe me, it is as bad as they say. Unless you are blind and unable to read print, I recommend buy the book and reading it yourself. They should release a 2nd version with the original narrator.

Dexter Needs A Swift Kick

While not my first Dexter novel, this was my first one experienced on audio. I think if I go back to the reading the good old fashioned way, perhaps Dexter won't come off as a castrated terrier.

These are Dexter novels so we know bad things happen to and around Dexter with droll delivery, but Jeff Lindsay (author, narrator) reads as if our anti-hero has been recently lobotomized. It's read too peppy and light, and it makes the argument that First Person Narrators are unreliable, which is a departure from the other Dexter books, as he’s the one character we can trust. We know him and his motives, but when he’s read he’s trying to sell us a used car fished out of the river, it plays too obvious. It doesn’t help that the delivery is stilted and uneven, I can't help but wonder just a little bit (okay, a lot) if these stories aren't perhaps ghostwritten. More on that in a bit.

Dexter now has a new daughter and while he strives to be the new man his little girl deserves, while switching gears and shepherding Aster and Cody into the new-found religion of Upstanding Citizen (instead of slippery shadows), he is foiled by the circumstances of his new case and the resurfacing of forgotten family. The Dexter in this novel reminds me of the Dexter in "Dexter in the Dark - in other words, not nearly as interesting with the suppression of his Dark Passenger. He goes on (and on and on and on) about his new role as Daddy and it gets tired quick. He’s the guy with the new car he can’t stop wiping with a chamois. He still want to be the guy you got to like, but comes off like that guy that can’t stop talking about his horsepower and leather seats and ends up crawling under your skin until you shoot him in the face to make him shut up.

Like that.

Then there's Deb, who somehow made it to Sergeant by punching and swearing and being incompetent. Behind every great woman, is a man that lets her play pretend, eh Lindsay? If she were set up as the cop that only got to where she was using her brother, that would be one thing, but as Deb is supposedly tough as nails, she comes off as a dumb jock who can’t string a thought together without Dexter’s ‘insight’. With Deb’s constant intrusion into Dexter’s life, one is left wondering if when the baby was born, Dexter turned his balls in for a burping cloth.

Back to the ghostwriting; I've read my own work out loud - and because I've written it, I know how I imagine my own characters' reactions, inflections, tone. Jeff Lindsay seems to read this cold as if he's meeting Dexter and Deb and the words on the page for the first time. The sentences read too fast or without inflection. There was a scene with two people caught up in a moment are falling over each other’s words, so it should have sounded like two people talking, but without inflection, or even a change in pitch, it sounded a tweaker explaining the aerodynamics of a marshmallow shooter while disassembling a toaster. If you're going to read something purportedly written by you, maybe you should become more familiar with it, maybe practice before sitting in front of the mic. Otherwise, you get something that sounds like this.

Because of the pacing of the reading and the lack of any characterizations, the wasn't nearly a good a story as it could have been. Maybe I’m just soured on the whole series of Dexter Books, since Book 3 (I didn’t even realize until just now that somehow I skipped “Dexter By Design”). Perhaps with a different narrator, this could have been a different book and I may have enjoyed it more.

Yes, the narrator does matter, Jeff Lindsay, so set aside your ego and get a professional.