2007-01-01 14:04:44 · 12 answers · asked by Megan V 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I WOULD RATHER SERIES BOOKS.
2007-01-01 18:26:17 · update #1
All of Anne Rice's, The Vampire Chronicles, and books by the author Poppy Bright.
2007-01-01 14:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didn't care for Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" but loved her second book "The Vampire Lestat" - so use your own judgement there and know that the series goes on seemingly forever. Although she's stopped writing them. Again. For good this time, we think.
Try Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake vampire hunter series ("Guilty Pleasures" is book #1). The first 10 books are wonderful (up to and including "Obsidian Butterfly"). The series changes direction dramatically after that, starting with "Narcissus in Chains" and moving forward to the present.
Tanya Huff has an interesting series that starts off with a female detective and the vampire that happens to help her out. I think most of the titles have "Blood" in them...
I just finished reading "I'm the Vampire, That's Why" by Michelle Bardsley - which falls into the contemporary-romance- with-vampires genre. It was frustrating to see all sorts of Gaelic phrases and no pronounciation key. The story was light-hearted, somewhat action packed, but ultimately too long considering how very little actually happened in the plot.
Mary Janice Davidson has a series of contemporary-romance- with-vampires books ("Unded and Unemployed" + "Undead and Unwed" etc) which folks love but I find annoying.
Charlaine Harris wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books, about a young woman who can hear other people's thoughts and the vampire who she can't hear at all. Not a bad series, light hearted and easy to read. I would check them out from the library, even so.
Stay away from "Minion" by L. A. Banks (I think she's the correct author) and all the books that follow - they're awful IMHO.
Do read Kim Harrison's "Dead Witch Walking" which isn't so much about vampires as happens to have vampires in it. It's the first book in a killer series. Love love love her books.
Happy reading!
2007-01-01 23:37:03 · answer #2 · answered by Margarita 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most recent vampire novel I have read was Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. If you really thought vampires vanished if exposed to sunlight, think again! This novel tells a whole other side to the most common myths about vampires. On Amazon.com it got a 5 star review from readers. If you like that there is also the next in the series called New Moon.
Another one I saw on Amazon was Vampire Kisses(sorry i forgot the author ) I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to. It, like Twilight, got great reviews and if that isn't enough to help you decide, Amazon lets you get a peak inside the book as well.
2007-01-01 22:21:05 · answer #3 · answered by BO 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My top 3 picks would be:
Stephen King's "'Salem's Lot"
Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend"
F. Paul Wilson's "Midnight Mass" (Matheson fans will love this one)
(Didn't really care for Bram Stoker's "Dracula")
Wilson's "The Keep" is pretty darn good, too, and it has a nice blood-sucking feel to it.
And I guess I can't leave off Anne Rice (she hasn't sold millions of copies for nothing), but when I want to read a vampire novel, I tend to agree with Wilson:
"Midnight Mass was born out of my dissatisfaction with the tortured romantic aesthetes who have been passing lately for vampires. Stephen King gave us the real deal in 'Salem's Lot, but what gives since then? I wanted to get back to roots-go retro, if you will-and write about the soulless, merciless, parasitic creatures we all knew and loved."
2007-01-02 02:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by Chris D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The firth three or so books in Anne Rice's Vampire series are good, the rest are largely forgettable.
2007-01-01 22:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by Hotwad 980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Not all of Rice's vampire books are as entertaining and chilling as this one, but she does seem to like her subject matter.
2007-01-02 10:21:51 · answer #6 · answered by teacupn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always been hooked on Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles since I was a freshman in high school, that would be 15 years ago, but I still read them.
2007-01-01 23:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by amazon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up Brian Lumley, his Necroscope series is a much different and darker take on vampires than Anna Rice.
2007-01-02 01:17:14 · answer #8 · answered by Flipp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2007-01-01 22:31:07 · answer #9 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Dracula,' Bram Stoker.
'I Am Legend,' Richard Matheson.
Both are far more haunting, powerful, and affecting than Anne Rice or Laurel K. Hamilton or what have you.
For nonfiction, Gilles de Rais and Countess Bathory are fascinating subjects of study.
2007-01-02 01:00:08 · answer #10 · answered by Kate S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋