Year of the Vampire

A few weeks ago, I finally finished the audio-book version of Eclipse. Thank God! That one was a struggle to get through. I decided that I had had enough of the Bella/Edward/Jacob love triangle drama, and that while I will eventually return to read the fourth book just to find out what happens, I need a break from THAT vampire story for now.

So I moved on to the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels. Seriously, I am obsessed with vampires this year. It's kinda going out of style for the rest of the world, but I am in it full-fledged right now.

The first Sookie Stackhouse book is "Dead Until Dark."

Honestly, I had a really hard time getting into this one just because the writing is so cheesy and choppy, and it didn't get interesting till half-way through. It did manage to hold my attention enough to want to keep reading and to actually want to find out what happens in the rest of the books! I just have to ignore the writing style and chopped off sentence. And book two, "Living Dead in Dallas" was definitely better. I still find it hard to believe that all of a sudden, this innocent Southern girl, Sookie, is involved in all this crazy vampire and supernatural drama. It's a little far-fetched, but also incredibly entertaining to read. In conclusion, the first novel was hard to get through, but now I'm hooked and am going to have to continue on Sookie's journey with her.

The HBO series, True Blood, is supposed to be based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but that is a very loosed "based on."

Only some of the story line actually translates to the TV show, and Sookie is much more annoying on the show than in the book. However, it is also very captivating and it is satisfying my vampire lust at the moment. I started to watch this show when it first came out, but I must have only watched a few episodes because half of the stuff I DO NOT remember. Like how when the vampires die they turn into a disgusting pile of stringy goo and globby blood. I think that's actually why I stopped watching it, because it was so gory. What's changed now? I don't know, because it's still pretty gross. Maybe it's because I'm just actually more into the whole vampire thing right now.

I think I'm going to have to be a vampire for Halloween this year.

fangs and blood and supernatural occurences

I've become like those infatuated teenage girls and their vampire lovers selling their souls and crossing over to the other side... or transitioning.

I am now obsessed with Vampire Culture. Books, movies, TV shows, the whole gamut.

I know, I know; I'm about four years too late and 15 years too old. And I'll admit, when this whole vampire craze started, I refused to participate in the trend. I had read the original vampire story --DRACULA-- and was not going to enter into this frivolous modern-day vampire romance nonsense. (Also, I'm not a 13 year old girl.)

So how did this new obsession come to be?

Well, to make a long story short, I was deeply grieving after my LOST marathon on Netlix ended, so I had to find a new "thing." (Again, I was late with the whole Lost thing, but that's another story. Needless to say, a year after the show officially ended, I finally finished the series and was suffering from withdrawal. So onto Vampires!)

I have already watched the first three Twilight movies, but hadn't actually read the books, so I requested the audio versions of them from my library, and now my commute completely flies by because I am entranced in this ridiculous story! Also ridiculous is the CW show, The Vampire Diaries...but I do admit I'm kinda hooked on it. And as you can see from the previous post, I just got two Vampire Diary books from the library. What is going on?

When that True Blood show started on HBO, I was actually watching it in real time. That was the only vampire thing I was following. But then HBO was cancelled and I've missed everything after season 1. Then! A year ago, JT told me about the books! Finally, I got the first book of the series and will somehow start to read that along with The Vampire Diaries and all those other books I got from the library.

Maybe I'm overdoing it a little bit?

vampire books

I am currently listening to the entire Twilight series on audio books while I commute. Disclaimer: I know these are teeny-bopper, silly vampire romance books and that's why I've refused to read them until now.

The first one was good. I was captivated. The second one was okay too. The real love triangle has started. Corny? Yes, but it was fine. An easy story to listen to while I drive and don't have to concentrate to hard on what they're saying.

Now I'm on chapter 10 (disc five) of the third one, Eclipse. Can I just say it is a yawn-fest! I mean, what is going on? There is absolutely no point to this story so far. Edward and Jacob hate each other, and of course Bella is torn between the two because Jacob is her "best friend" and Edward is her lover; she is desperate to turn into a vampire but then Jacob and his pack will kill her because the treaty is off... blah, blah, blah. BOR-ing.

The Vampire Diaries book is a completely different, horrific, situation. First of all, I couldn't even get past chapter one. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of children's and YA literature, but this is just terrible, juvenile writing. Maybe if I was a 9 year old girl, I'd appreciate it a bit more. To the books defense, I'm sure that was the exact audience it is aimed for. However, I am not wasting my time on any more sentences that include the main character talking about how the outfit she picked for the first day of school makes her look like a raspberry sundae, or how important boys are to her life and that's basically the only reason she lives -- to impress boys.

Um, hello? This is what pre-teen girls are reading? When I was 9, I was reading The Baby Sitter's Club books or Pollyanna.

The Vampire Diaries books will be promptly returned to the library without further ado.

With the Twilight books, I'll keep going. At least with those, they are written a little better and I kinda have to find out with happens with this vampire baby I keep hearing rumors about.