Vampire Lovers discussion

House of Night Series
Blue Bloods Serious
Sookie Stackhouse Series

I've marked these books as "Undecided about reading"
I've heard mixed reviews about Sookie Stackhouse and House of Night, and from what I hear they are somewhat... mundane.

I just read Blue Bloods and I'm undecided on how I feel about it - it was as good as I had hoped. I don't know if it's worth continuing the serious.

So I thought I'd ask fellow Vampire lovers what their take on these books are and whether you think they are worth reading.

Thanks!

It used to be that people read the two great vampire works, Carmilla and Dracula. Carmilla is a short story and last case file of Dr. Hesselius in the book "In A Glass Darkly". These are classic well written books from the 1800s. Real deal gothic vamp stuff. http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/v... This site has all the classic short stories. Most people read these before they start the pulpy series vampire books. The best of these are Draculas Guest(a chapter ommited from the original book) The Vampyre, The Tomb of Sarah, The Mystery of the Campagna, The Mysterious Stranger. Some of the other stories rock but those five are must reads. Blue Bloods unless your into fashion and teengers that smoke and do dope is trash. The woman who wrote Blue Bloods is some kind of fashion industry worker. She tells you how each character wore stitched by civiliaztion jeans and carried a Gucci hand bag. It is pure trash. Sookie Stackhouse is pulpy. But I will say it is entertaining and fun. Kinda like pop corn candy. But fun. Dracula for sure is classic litterature and Carmilla as well. They have been made into screen plays and movies and been in publication over 100 years. Thats when you know a book or story has something to it. Well you could say that about Twilight that it was made into a movie. Twilight will never be made into a play.It will also be dust on the shelf in 20 years. Good reading, Cary

My plan is to read every vampire story I can find but some of these just don't seem worth it.

Thanks for that link Cary.

Yea...

I absolutly loved the house of night. I am an addict now. They are more adult than twilight, thats for sure, but they are awesome.

I no, i just started it, well i am on chosen now. i luv tat series almost more than twilight!
:)

Kami ♥ wrote: "I no, i just started it, well i am on chosen now. i luv tat series almost more than twilight!
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So what is about the series that you like?

I like Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. I have read Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, and now I am reading the next in the series, Club Dead. I read what was then the last book of the series first which is Altogether Dead. I have the last book from Dead to Worse but I am trying to read them in order. There is one other book now after From Dead to Worse, Many Bloody Returns I think. Sookie Stackhouse books are like reading popcorn. I love them because they are fast pased. Have lots of action, cool dangerous adult vamps even though so of them are only teengers when they were turned. They are not in Hihg School. There are werewolfs, shape shifters, witches, daemons, fairies,beings from other dimensions. Rather like Buffy in a way. A little more errotic sex I think. Plus Sookie books are easy to read. They are easily best series vamp books I have read. Normaly I do not like series at all. I like stand alone books. If you like adult well written vampire stories these are the best. Carmilla, Dracula, You Suck(comic). All are great single books. Real deal Gothic vampire short stories are still the ultimate for me. Horrormasters.com has the best old school Vampire, Werewolf stories. Also Devil cult and ghost stories, HP. Lovecraft rocks, Cary

i like werewolves

Read Sookie Stackhouse Sothern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. It is what TrueBloods TV series is based on. I am reading Club Dead right now. Sookies boyfrreind Vampire Bill has been captured by Mississippi vamps on a mission for the Vamp Queen of Louisiana. She is undercover with a werewolf named Alcade. Sookie books have Vampires,Werewolfs,shape shiftes,witches,daemons,bejngs from other dimensions. Anyway the were wolfs are the top of the shape shifters and hang generaly in packs away from other shifters. They are violent but not all of them. Alcade is a nice guy. Most of the were wolfs dress like bikers and wear colors. A patch on the back of their jackets with a full moon siloueting a wolfs head.

I agree. The Southern Vampire series is worth checking out. Also if you have not read any of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles or Dracula do so as well.

I've read Anne Rice and Dracula. I love those.
I've read many vampire books, just looking for something new.

Yup Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mysteries are just great. Try "Dead Until Dark" and you''ll be hooked. I would like to read a series like the movie "Underworld" or "Blade". If you read Dracula and liked it then read "Carmilla". It is the last case file in the records of Dr. Hesselius (an occult metaphysical physician). The title of these occult case studies is called "In A Glass Darkly" and was written by Sheridan Le Fanu circa 1870. Carmilla also comes as a single book or really a long short story. I love it so much I have personal copies of both, and now due to the kindness of a friend I have my own personal copy of Dracula. These are books I like rereading once a year around Halloween or St Georges Day. Check out TrueBloods website and watch a clip or a whole episode of TrueBloods. Season one is very faitful to the first book,"Dead Until Dark". I imagine season two will be just like "Living Dead in Dallas". One very jamin book. It's very easy to see why Sookie Stackhouse is so popular. It's adult, witty, and very action packed,and very simple reading. With a universe of supernatural beings. It is pulp fiction but really good pulp fiction,LOL.

Check Dracula as well,LOL. Dracula is the most impressive vampire of them all and here's why shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dr...

OK I went of on a tangent. This is about the three books at the top. I just started Dead To the World now. So out of the Sookie Stackhouse Books I have only two more to read. Dead as a Doornail which I have lying on the floor. Then the brand new one Dead and Gone. I fear that Dead and Gone may be the last of the Sookie Stackhouse books which are so fun and so puply to read. The title implies that. Sookie is the only series I have liked. Well that is modern series. I love the Victorian era penny dreadfuls. That cost 1 cent and were like late 1800's comic books. Varney the Vampire or A Feast of Blood. Both different titles of the Varney stories are just incredible by todays standards. Varney can walk around in the day. Something Victorian era Vampyres could do. Although all their hunting and evil deeds are done at night. The main parts of Varney the Vampire you can read online. As they are impossible to find in todays libraries. They are really good. Like the Varney story "Resurection of a Vampire" which is my favorite. There is nothing hot about Varney. He is evil and ghastly. However you might dig him I did.
Blue Bloods I read and it was just to fashion trendy. All the teenage vampires smoked, drank, did drugs & had sex. They were all beautiful & wealthy and wore desingner clothes. I is a lame series but readable compaired to some. Well I only read the first book. Anyone wearing "Stitched for Civilization Jeans"? If you like vampire books that describe in great detail the high fashion clothes each vamp wears. This is the book for you. I think I will write a series about a bunch of poor vampires called "Blues Bloods". Who all wear ripped up jeans, athletic shoes,bandanas,and listen to rap and live in Detroit.LOL

My main problem with Blue Bloods is the writter has to tell you all this high fashion stuff. She was wearing Stitched by Civilization Jeans, Jimmy Chews, and a Gucci hand bag. Who the freak cares. It is readable just not at the top of the genere. I liked Skyler, and also the fact they were decended from the Pilgrims that came on the Mayflower. However when it starts getting into all that crazy stuff about the Arch Angel Gabrielle? Going down to earth with Lucifer and the rest of the vamps. Its just a little to out there. The sliver bloods part now that is really over the top. I think the silver blood is the Vampire leader himself.

Now there are two Vampire TV shows. HBO's TrueBlood in it's second season, and starting this Fall on the CW channel 19 The Vampire Diaries. Long Live the Dead. C

I just finished the last of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries AKA TrueBlood. I figured out now why I like these books so much better than any other series. Usually I only like old gothic vampire stories or the really great Vampypre works of literature like Carmilla & Dracula. Because the vampire story is just a vehicle for revealing a much more profound subject. Well in a way that is what Sookie Stories are like. They have Vampires and Werewolves,and other supernatural beings in a complex society. Which alone is interesting enough. But it wasn't until I finished Dead As A Door Nail that I figured out my real attraction. They are mysteries. All thorough the story Dead As A Door Nail you are thinking the mystery is about who is killing shape shifters in Bon Temps. But really it is a mystery within a mystery. Even with the mysterious murders of shape shifters,and Tara being kept hostage by the evil renegade vampire Mickey,and the big fight for pack leader of the werewolf pack of Shreveport the real deal going on that you don't know about is that Sookie is going to be assasinated by a vampire in a revenge killing. She is barely saved at the last minute. Southern Vampire Stories are as much about mysteries and about vampires and supernatural beings. What Charlaine Harris has done is combine two genres of books. Vampire books and mystery stories, and porn. She is not the first one to do this. Lots of vampire stories have mysteries in them. But none of them have the complexity of supernatural society and devious mystery as Charlaine Harris books. Southern Vampire Mysteries rock.

I have decided not to continue reading Blue Bloods, too high fashion and "poor little rich kid" drama. I'm still undecided about House of Night Series and Sookie Stackhouse Series.

I also found a really good series called Vampire Wars by Steven Savile.

Man just check out Dead Until Dark from your local library. It is book 1 of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. Trust me you will end up reading all ten of them back to back.

The Blue Bloods series has gotten progressively convoluted. The plot makes absolutely no sense after a point. I had mixed feelings about the House of Night series. It felt like Twilight mixed with Harry Potter, except not done quite as well as either of those series. I loved the Southern Mystery novels because they don't try to be more than what they are. The main character, Sookie, is extremely likable, and the books are fast-paced and fun. They're also aimed at adults, while the other two series are aimed at the teen audience. I'd definitely read the Sookie Stackhouse books.

I thought Blue Bloods was lame from book one. Teenage fashion vamps doing drugs,smoking cigarttes,having sex. It was barely readable. Sookie Stackhouse is lots of fun. Charlaine Harris uses three literary generes in her books. Vampire stories and Supernatural stories, Mystery Stories,and Porn,LOL. TrueBlood TV series on HBO Sudays at 8:00 and 10:00 is great. They also have the previous weeks episodes on Saturdays. It is based on Sookie Stackhoue, and produced by Charlaine Harris. I would rate is XXX adult, and very fun. The espisodes are one hour no comercials. They fly by so fast it seems like you have been watching the show 15 min. No comercial TV is just outa site. Other vampire books that a really good are Dracula, Carmilla, both of which are free online. Just google up Carmilla a long short story. You'll dig it. The the Penguin Book of Vampire Stories. A very good collection of Vampire short stories. V for Vampire