Okay, folks. Here's the deal: after consideration, I've decided to give away whatever books people want from that giant lot I pulled from my shelf. The full list is
here. The books are in varying condition, some more scruffy than others, others rather old, but none with pages falling off. I take good care of my dears. Pay attention to what says on
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Bloodlines or Redemption? I've played Redemption, and Christof actually features in the novels. He is quite the adorable emo kid in the midst of a Brujah coterie.
I loved Dracula. I watched the movie after reading the book, and I really liked how the first part was faithful to the events described in the novel. Very graphic! I bought Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire in England, still have to get into it without other books and things to do distracting me. Twilight... vampires in high school. IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Dan Simmon's Carrion Comfort has a very loose interpretation of vampires. Mind vampires, so to say, that "feed" on the violence and mind-rapes they impose on others, but are otherwise human. It's different from the mainstream, yet beautifully handled. None of that Sparkle in Daylight bullshit; vampires are meant to be Scary Shit(TM).
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I played both, but Bloodlines was my favourite, and I hardly remember Redemption because I played it a good while ago.
I know, right?! Why oh why would you want to keep going to High School when you have all that power and the ability to do anything? It doesn't make you evil to live up to your powers, ffs.
I love that concept, I do! Don't get me started on the sparkling, I remember vividly shaking the book and going "WHAAAT" a la Bernard Black when I read that. I like my vampires scary, ambiguous and not very trustworthy just by their nature. Even if they're good people, they need an edge.
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Because high school has all the pretty girls with hormones jumping around, didn't you know? And of course they are the best thing that beings who are hundreds of years old can hope for. Tender. Yeees.
Also, if I remember correctly, there are at least three instances in which Edward is described as being more beautiful than Adonis. I hooted with laughter when I learned that.
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Yeah, but then they don't mix up with the rest, and walk around smelling them like the perverts that they ARE because "Oh God oh God I can't bite that pretty little neck of yours woe is me". One of these days I'll finally write my vampire novel, and it'll have a vampire who preys on High School girls - except they all end up dead and drained. Booyah.
Yeah, I lost count of the overly purple descriptions of Edward's beauty in that book. It was ridiculous, at one point I legit thought he was using glamour on her. And then they get this dude whose face from certain angles looks like a foot to play him in the movie.
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