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Title: Lilith's Dream : A Tale of the Vampire Life by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0-7434-5153-8 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I've read good vamp books & I can only say "huh" about this
Comment: I tried really hard to get into this book, and I am an avid reader of several different genres. Typically when I read a book I like, I pick up everything I can find from the author...after reading this my first thought was...ok - well thank goodness that's over...I can honestly say that I have absolutely no intention of buying any more of Strieber's books.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Worst Movie Script I've Ever Read
Comment: It is a shame, because this man CAN write. He DOES have enviable imagingation. But Strieber has sold his soul to Hollywood. His second book in the series, "The Last Vampire" was pretty good, and he sold the rights for movie production (see the book's back flap.) Apparently, "Lillith" is an attempt at a sequel to that. It was filled with enough action-horror-film elements to impress a 14 year old boy. One can see the author's struggle to tell a passionate story colliding with his desire to make a cheap-**s movie script.
The first two books in the series describe his vampire (Miriam) as a horrifying thing to be loved and feared, but she had dignity. She had an agenda that never slipped. This Lillith chick is just that--a chick with fangs. She doesn't know whether to enjoy her food or feel sorry for it. She doesn't know whether she is a creator or a monster. By the end of the book, neither do I!
Rating: 2
Summary: why can't some things stay gold?
Comment: I loved the Hunger, frankly I thought it was one of the most innovative and fleshed out vamp books to come out in the last thirty years (and believe me I know-I've read nearly everything on the subject) and I have to say this was a horrible and completely unnecessary book. The Last Vampire was bad enough, but this? Strieber's writing and attention to detail and plausibility have taken a steady decline. While Miriam was introduced as lonely and alien, and I will say this for the record, one of the only thoroughly believable ancient characters in vampire literature, she had become more and more ineffectual and trite as the "series" has progressed. I really thought the first book stood perfectly well on its own, the vampiric society left a lot to the imagination. Sigh. It's readable and you may even like it, but if it was up to me I'd say read the first and pretend like there weren't even two more.
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Title: The Last Vampire : A Novel by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0743417216 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hunger by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0743431022 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Is Thicker Than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman ISBN: 0972109803 Publisher: Alien Perspective Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Seduced By Moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton ISBN: 034544356X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice ISBN: 037541200X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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