Vampires – just because some of them sparkle doesn’t mean there’re all bad.
The Classical Vampire
The first vampire to appear in fictional literature was created 由 the British 作者 John William Polidori in his book ‘The Vampyre’. After this came the rather long short story ‘Carmilla’ 由 Sheridan Le Fanu. But it was a work inspired 由 these two stories that remains the greatest vampire story to this 日 – Bram Stoker’s ’Dracula’. ’Dracula’, which was published in 1897, started a Vampire craze the hasn’t ceased yet. It is in this novel that we find the original, classic vampire. 你 know the kind that has no reflection, doesn’t like garlic 或者 sunshine and dies after being stabbed in the heart. The evil Count Dracula has decided to leave his Transylvanian 城堡 to come to England. But there are some, who oppose him, especially after he attacks a really special woman and makes her a vampire as well. For those who don’t like today’s vampires, ’Dracula’ could easily be loved. And if 你 enjoyed this, 你 should definitely try ’The Historian’ 由 Elizabeth Kostova. Here we follow a young woman, who, through her father’s letters, find the ‘real’ Dracula and learns a disturbing truth about her family.
The Anne 白饭, 大米 Vampire
你 might know the 吸血鬼 Louis and Lestat from the movie ’Interview with the Vampire’ starring Tom Cruise as Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis. Well, did 你 know that not only was this movie originally a book, there are also 7 other 图书 in the series called ’The Vampire Chronicles’? Furthermore there are a couple of independent vampire 图书 由 the 皇后乐队 of vampire fiction, Anne Rice. In ’Interview with the Vampire’ we follow the sweet and morally plagued vampire Louis as he tells about his mean and evil creator Lestat. But Lestat is not one to sit 由 and be offended, he writes a couple of 图书 himself, both telling about his life with Louis and his life after him. Lestat is far from perfect, so if 你 like your 超能英雄 to have an edge, you’ll 爱情 Anne Rice’s 图书 about Lestat.
The Vampire Hunter
If 你 don’t enjoy the vampire-hero, then how about the vampire hunter? Here the 吸血鬼 are the bad guys, usually, and they are being hunted 由 either mere humans 或者 dhampires. Sure, once in a while 你 get a nice, heroic vampire, but usually the 吸血鬼 are the ones getting staked and laughed at. If this sort of vampire-novel appeals to 你 more, try ’The Night Huntress Series’ 由 Jeaniene Frost. Here the dhampir (a dhampir is half vampire, half human) named Kat has decided to stake 吸血鬼 for a living to avoid the fact that she is actually one herself. But when she runs into the handsome vampire Bones, she lets him train her, get close to her and even into her bed. Perhaps you’re not really into the whole bedding a vampire? Well, then 你 could always try ’The Gardella Vampire Choricles’, written 由 Colleen Gleason, where the young woman Victoria is forced to balance between her social life and her job as a vampire-killer. Though if 你 chose this series, I advise 你 to only read the first couple of books. The quality of the 图书 are rapidly descending. Finally there is the vampire-slays-vampire books. Here I’d definitely recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon’s ’Dark-Hunter’ books. None of the characters are 吸血鬼 in the normal sense of the word, but they do have many vampire traits that makes it almost the same. Here two different kinds of 吸血鬼 battle each other – the Dark-Hunters, who are ancient men 或者 women wronged in their mortal life and then made immortal to get their revenge, and then there are the Daimons, who are soul-sucking, damned people fighting to survive in a world were nothing goes their way. To add an extra twist to this, Sherrilyn Kenyon spices her story with a 茶 spoon of 爱情 and a dash of lust. Each book follows a new couple that have to fight both themselves and the Daimons.
The Teenage Vampire
Now, this is where most people go wrong. They believe that vampire literature for young adults is sugary sweet and sticky, but if 你 know what to look for, 你 can find some really good stuff out there, whether you’re a teenager 或者 an adult. 你 can find the classical teenage vampire in ’The Vampire Diaries’ 由 L.J. Smith. In this book the young girl Elena has just 迷失 both her parents, but she is about to get a whole lot 更多 when she falls in 爱情 with the new guy Stephan. But there is something different about Stephan, and there is something lethal about his brother Damon. Both brothers want Elena for their own reasons. If this type of teenage fiction doesn’t appeal to you, there are the ‘vampire school’ novels, ’House of Night’ and ’Vampire Academy’. ’House of Night’ is written 由 P.C. and Kristin Cast. In this book the otherwise normal girl Zoey is suddenly starting to transform into a vampire and must go to the vampire school House of Night. Soon it becomes obvious that there is something special about Zoey and something seriously wrong with House of Night. In ’Vampire Academy’ 由 Richelle Mead the two best 老友记 Lissa and Rose. Lissa is a vampire princess and it is Rose’s job to protect her from harm. But that’s not all that easy to do when the enemy is close, really, really close.
The Romantic Vampire
When everything else fails there’s always the paranormal romance with a vampire 或者 two. Many of the 图书 already mentioned (’Vampire Academy’, ’House of Night’, ’The Vampire Diaries’, ’Dark-Hunter’, ’The Night Huntress Series’) also fit into this category. If neither of these 图书 were of your liking then perhaps 你 would like ’The Dark-Ones’ 由 Katie MacAlister. The first thing that springs to mind with these books, are their titles. The first book is called ’A Girl’s Guide to Vampires’. Now, if this doesn’t imply paranormal romance, I don’t know what does. In this book the vampires, also called the Dark Ones, are forever searching for their Beloved. In order to claim his Beloved (in this universe there are no female vampires), the vampire most go through 7 steps of the Joining. Some of these steps involve kissing, trusting his Beloved with his life, sex and exchange of bodily fluids. So beware, these 图书 are quite explicit. If 你 still need a bit 更多 mystery on the side, 你 can always go for the ’Sookie Stackhouse Series’ 由 Charlaine Harris. In these 图书 吸血鬼 are out in the open and Miss Sookie Stackhouse is instantly attracted to her small town vampire Bill. But a relationship between the two is nowhere near easy. There’s the obvious problem with the age difference, 100+ years, but there’s also the town folks to worry about. And mysterious murders and rivalring 吸血鬼 doesn’t make it any easier. If 你 decide to start these books, I’ll tell 你 straight with you, I didn’t enjoy these books. I found the plot lacking, but perhaps you’ll enjoy them 更多 than me.
The Sparkly Vampire
Okay, so maybe 你 don’t like sparkly vampires. Fine, I can agree with you, the sparkly part is strange. But what else is wrong with these books? Sure the heroine might be pretty annoying from time to time and Stephenie Meyer definitely isn’t a prime writer, but she sure is a story teller. And Twilight is the ultimate 爱情 story between a vampire and a human. I mean, come on who can resist the intense, utterly romantic Edward Cullen? 或者 the easy-going, funny Jacob Black? Okay, okay, so 你 don’t think you’ll like it, you’d rather just hate on something you’ve never tried out. Is that it? Well, too bad. You’re the one missing out, not me. I just have to listen to all your bullshit and crap about something 你 don’t know a thing about. So please, try it. Just open the first book and read a couple of chapters. If 你 still don’t like it, then we’ll talk. Until then…
Toodles and happy reading!
The Classical Vampire
The first vampire to appear in fictional literature was created 由 the British 作者 John William Polidori in his book ‘The Vampyre’. After this came the rather long short story ‘Carmilla’ 由 Sheridan Le Fanu. But it was a work inspired 由 these two stories that remains the greatest vampire story to this 日 – Bram Stoker’s ’Dracula’. ’Dracula’, which was published in 1897, started a Vampire craze the hasn’t ceased yet. It is in this novel that we find the original, classic vampire. 你 know the kind that has no reflection, doesn’t like garlic 或者 sunshine and dies after being stabbed in the heart. The evil Count Dracula has decided to leave his Transylvanian 城堡 to come to England. But there are some, who oppose him, especially after he attacks a really special woman and makes her a vampire as well. For those who don’t like today’s vampires, ’Dracula’ could easily be loved. And if 你 enjoyed this, 你 should definitely try ’The Historian’ 由 Elizabeth Kostova. Here we follow a young woman, who, through her father’s letters, find the ‘real’ Dracula and learns a disturbing truth about her family.
The Anne 白饭, 大米 Vampire
你 might know the 吸血鬼 Louis and Lestat from the movie ’Interview with the Vampire’ starring Tom Cruise as Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis. Well, did 你 know that not only was this movie originally a book, there are also 7 other 图书 in the series called ’The Vampire Chronicles’? Furthermore there are a couple of independent vampire 图书 由 the 皇后乐队 of vampire fiction, Anne Rice. In ’Interview with the Vampire’ we follow the sweet and morally plagued vampire Louis as he tells about his mean and evil creator Lestat. But Lestat is not one to sit 由 and be offended, he writes a couple of 图书 himself, both telling about his life with Louis and his life after him. Lestat is far from perfect, so if 你 like your 超能英雄 to have an edge, you’ll 爱情 Anne Rice’s 图书 about Lestat.
The Vampire Hunter
If 你 don’t enjoy the vampire-hero, then how about the vampire hunter? Here the 吸血鬼 are the bad guys, usually, and they are being hunted 由 either mere humans 或者 dhampires. Sure, once in a while 你 get a nice, heroic vampire, but usually the 吸血鬼 are the ones getting staked and laughed at. If this sort of vampire-novel appeals to 你 more, try ’The Night Huntress Series’ 由 Jeaniene Frost. Here the dhampir (a dhampir is half vampire, half human) named Kat has decided to stake 吸血鬼 for a living to avoid the fact that she is actually one herself. But when she runs into the handsome vampire Bones, she lets him train her, get close to her and even into her bed. Perhaps you’re not really into the whole bedding a vampire? Well, then 你 could always try ’The Gardella Vampire Choricles’, written 由 Colleen Gleason, where the young woman Victoria is forced to balance between her social life and her job as a vampire-killer. Though if 你 chose this series, I advise 你 to only read the first couple of books. The quality of the 图书 are rapidly descending. Finally there is the vampire-slays-vampire books. Here I’d definitely recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon’s ’Dark-Hunter’ books. None of the characters are 吸血鬼 in the normal sense of the word, but they do have many vampire traits that makes it almost the same. Here two different kinds of 吸血鬼 battle each other – the Dark-Hunters, who are ancient men 或者 women wronged in their mortal life and then made immortal to get their revenge, and then there are the Daimons, who are soul-sucking, damned people fighting to survive in a world were nothing goes their way. To add an extra twist to this, Sherrilyn Kenyon spices her story with a 茶 spoon of 爱情 and a dash of lust. Each book follows a new couple that have to fight both themselves and the Daimons.
The Teenage Vampire
Now, this is where most people go wrong. They believe that vampire literature for young adults is sugary sweet and sticky, but if 你 know what to look for, 你 can find some really good stuff out there, whether you’re a teenager 或者 an adult. 你 can find the classical teenage vampire in ’The Vampire Diaries’ 由 L.J. Smith. In this book the young girl Elena has just 迷失 both her parents, but she is about to get a whole lot 更多 when she falls in 爱情 with the new guy Stephan. But there is something different about Stephan, and there is something lethal about his brother Damon. Both brothers want Elena for their own reasons. If this type of teenage fiction doesn’t appeal to you, there are the ‘vampire school’ novels, ’House of Night’ and ’Vampire Academy’. ’House of Night’ is written 由 P.C. and Kristin Cast. In this book the otherwise normal girl Zoey is suddenly starting to transform into a vampire and must go to the vampire school House of Night. Soon it becomes obvious that there is something special about Zoey and something seriously wrong with House of Night. In ’Vampire Academy’ 由 Richelle Mead the two best 老友记 Lissa and Rose. Lissa is a vampire princess and it is Rose’s job to protect her from harm. But that’s not all that easy to do when the enemy is close, really, really close.
The Romantic Vampire
When everything else fails there’s always the paranormal romance with a vampire 或者 two. Many of the 图书 already mentioned (’Vampire Academy’, ’House of Night’, ’The Vampire Diaries’, ’Dark-Hunter’, ’The Night Huntress Series’) also fit into this category. If neither of these 图书 were of your liking then perhaps 你 would like ’The Dark-Ones’ 由 Katie MacAlister. The first thing that springs to mind with these books, are their titles. The first book is called ’A Girl’s Guide to Vampires’. Now, if this doesn’t imply paranormal romance, I don’t know what does. In this book the vampires, also called the Dark Ones, are forever searching for their Beloved. In order to claim his Beloved (in this universe there are no female vampires), the vampire most go through 7 steps of the Joining. Some of these steps involve kissing, trusting his Beloved with his life, sex and exchange of bodily fluids. So beware, these 图书 are quite explicit. If 你 still need a bit 更多 mystery on the side, 你 can always go for the ’Sookie Stackhouse Series’ 由 Charlaine Harris. In these 图书 吸血鬼 are out in the open and Miss Sookie Stackhouse is instantly attracted to her small town vampire Bill. But a relationship between the two is nowhere near easy. There’s the obvious problem with the age difference, 100+ years, but there’s also the town folks to worry about. And mysterious murders and rivalring 吸血鬼 doesn’t make it any easier. If 你 decide to start these books, I’ll tell 你 straight with you, I didn’t enjoy these books. I found the plot lacking, but perhaps you’ll enjoy them 更多 than me.
The Sparkly Vampire
Okay, so maybe 你 don’t like sparkly vampires. Fine, I can agree with you, the sparkly part is strange. But what else is wrong with these books? Sure the heroine might be pretty annoying from time to time and Stephenie Meyer definitely isn’t a prime writer, but she sure is a story teller. And Twilight is the ultimate 爱情 story between a vampire and a human. I mean, come on who can resist the intense, utterly romantic Edward Cullen? 或者 the easy-going, funny Jacob Black? Okay, okay, so 你 don’t think you’ll like it, you’d rather just hate on something you’ve never tried out. Is that it? Well, too bad. You’re the one missing out, not me. I just have to listen to all your bullshit and crap about something 你 don’t know a thing about. So please, try it. Just open the first book and read a couple of chapters. If 你 still don’t like it, then we’ll talk. Until then…
Toodles and happy reading!
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Besides the book there was a movie in the 80's starring Daryl Hanna (Kill bill).
Totally Amazing!! Every Woman Should read it!!
The Story
While 阅读 the novel, I did not quite understand the story and it was not until the 秒 half of the story that I managed to understand. It telling us to follow our dreams if a person desires for it!
The Characters
Santiago (or the Boy in this story) is a very likable character because he manage to understand what the Alchemist is telling despite being relatively young, he is my favourite character out of the novel!
The other characters like the Englishman and just to name a few are very ambiguous, if 你 ask me.
Is It Worth Reading?
Yes, I highly recommend this book for those who have not read it yet!