http://www.vampires.com/the-strain-book-one-of-the-strain-trilogy/ bloodthirsty, hunger and bloodlust Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:40:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.vampires.com/the-strain-book-one-of-the-strain-trilogy/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Holiday Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:05:23 +0000 http://www.vampires.com/?p=207#comment-271 Interesting take, horrific vampires. It brought back some of the classic spookiness of the vampire... stakes and coffin lairs. But it also juxtaposed this with modern times, the whole thing starting with an airplane and a fear of a terrorist attack. It also brought to mind "The Plague" - Camus. The rats! It was great, intertwining ancient lore, strigoi and such, with a vampire threat come to life. It was interesting, concepts of terrorism, genocide, and so on. I actually want to read the next two books. Though... I do think the whole series could probably have been minimized to 1 book. It did go pretty slowly, but perhaps it was necessary to build suspense while also weaving in some symbolism and pretty prose here and there. Interesting take, horrific vampires. It brought back some of the classic spookiness of the vampire… stakes and coffin lairs. But it also juxtaposed this with modern times, the whole thing starting with an airplane and a fear of a terrorist attack.
It also brought to mind “The Plague” – Camus. The rats! It was great, intertwining ancient lore, strigoi and such, with a vampire threat come to life. It was interesting, concepts of terrorism, genocide, and so on.
I actually want to read the next two books. Though… I do think the whole series could probably have been minimized to 1 book. It did go pretty slowly, but perhaps it was necessary to build suspense while also weaving in some symbolism and pretty prose here and there.

]]> http://www.vampires.com/the-strain-book-one-of-the-strain-trilogy/comment-page-1/#comment-248 morozco Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:09:17 +0000 http://www.vampires.com/?p=207#comment-248 Reading this book now, simply amazing and wonderfully written...Del Toro and Hogan are crazy good and bring the carnal back to Vampires... Reading this book now, simply amazing and wonderfully written…Del Toro and Hogan are crazy good and bring the carnal back to Vampires…

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