From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Vampires (was: Neanderthal) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
> Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip>
> >And I fear I can't share your enthusiasm for Ann > >Rice...
> Really? Why not?
<shrug> I just didn't really care about what happened to the characters, and that's pretty much the 'kiss of death' for me and any book series. It's one of the major reasons why I adore most Brin novels, and don't care much for say, G Bear books.
So you like his character development (Brin) better than most?
> >hmm, you yourself have a 'bit of a thing' going > >there, eh? ;)
> I have always been interested in the vampire myth. > And it just so happens > that Anne writes the best vampire fiction (IMO), and > does it in a way that > makes *Anne Rice vampires* entirely different from > the classic vampire. They > are, dare I say, more human than human (to borrow a > White Zombie song title there).
Hah, sidestepping the implication of liking an older woman!
Perhaps. Though not intentionally. And as a matter of fact, I find 'older' women quite attractive; and for various reasons.
[OK, I have no idea how old Anne Rice is, but I was teasing back WRT my interest in Spike and Angel which you referred to as 'older men.'] <grin>
Wasn't me.
Vampires are a peculiarly seductive lot, I agree, although I think that erotic quality didn't really get developed until ~ the Victorian age(?);
I'm not really sure. I AM sure that it's something like that though, as the old vampire mythology isn't that attractive.
It's all that suppressed sexuality and tightly-reined desire...
Sure is.
Are vampires as popular in Europe, given the absence of Puritanical underpinnings? (I'm assuming that in GB, the source of Victorian 'delicacy,' such sensual vampires are equally attractive.)
To the question - I don't know.
To the assumption - I agree
-Travis
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