Brains!

realize after having read the Vampire book drunk I may have liked it more then I would otherwise. I mean really its kinda crappy, the writing is very simplistic, the characters too. I read someone who thought it should be in the Young Adult section of the bookstore. Though there is a lot of sex and violence, it kind of fits that description the best. I’m surprised that the Six Feet Under guy was interested in the first place. But whatever I enjoyed the story and the concepts, and maybe that’s why they decided to create it visually, there’s a lot of material and places to go with Harris’s vampire world. And perhaps the TV show has helped to further my obsession. I’m excited to read further and watch further! And ashamed to say I wish vampires like Bill really existed because I would so be up on that, haha I wonder if this is what people who read Trashy romance novels feel like after? Now if only I could find book two Living Dead in Dallas, and I find myself dying for Sunday nights like I never have before.

In the meantime I’m reading Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?, by Thomas Kohnstamm, offering an alternative perspective to the notion that all travel writers lead sexy lives while on assignment. I figure I should try to broaden my travel reading horizons, break down some stereotypes. But it seems he’s extremely misogynistic, in fact offensive sometimes and even in some ways incredibly close to what I think most men are like, but decline to mention. We’ll see how it goes. I can already relate to a few things he’s written, similar notions to Troost, escapism, non-committal lifestyle etc. And gosh darnit I need to pick a book by a woman one of these days.