Vampires – just because some of them sparkle doesn’t mean there’re all bad.
The Classical Vampire
The first vampire to appear in fictional literature was created سے طرف کی the British مصنف John William Polidori in his book ‘The Vampyre’. After this came the rather long short story ‘Carmilla’ سے طرف کی Sheridan Le Fanu. But it was a work inspired سے طرف کی these two stories that remains the greatest vampire story to this دن – Bram Stoker’s ’Dracula’. ’Dracula’, which was published in 1897, started a Vampire craze the hasn’t ceased yet. It is in this novel that we find the original, classic vampire. آپ know the kind that has no reflection, doesn’t like garlic یا sunshine and dies after being stabbed in the heart. The evil Count Dracula has decided to leave his Transylvanian قلعہ to come to England. But there are some, who oppose him, especially after he attacks a really special woman and makes her a vampire as well. For those who don’t like today’s vampires, ’Dracula’ could easily be loved. And if آپ enjoyed this, آپ should definitely try ’The Historian’ سے طرف کی Elizabeth Kostova. Here we follow a young woman, who, through her father’s letters, find the ‘real’ Dracula and learns a disturbing truth about her family.
The Anne چاول Vampire
آپ might know the vampires Louis and Lestat from the movie ’Interview with the Vampire’ starring Tom Cruise as Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis. Well, did آپ know that not only was this movie originally a book, there are also 7 other کتابیں in the series called ’The Vampire Chronicles’? Furthermore there are a couple of independent vampire کتابیں سے طرف کی the Queen of vampire fiction, Anne Rice. In ’Interview with the Vampire’ we follow the sweet and morally plagued vampire Louis as he tells about his mean and evil creator Lestat. But Lestat is not one to sit سے طرف کی and be offended, he writes a couple of کتابیں himself, both telling about his life with Louis and his life after him. Lestat is far from perfect, so if آپ like your heroes to have an edge, you’ll love Anne Rice’s کتابیں about Lestat.
The Vampire Hunter
If آپ don’t enjoy the vampire-hero, then how about the vampire hunter? Here the vampires are the bad guys, usually, and they are being hunted سے طرف کی either mere humans یا dhampires. Sure, once in a while آپ get a nice, heroic vampire, but usually the vampires are the ones getting staked and laughed at. If this sort of vampire-novel appeals to آپ more, try ’The Night Huntress Series’ سے طرف کی Jeaniene Frost. Here the dhampir (a dhampir is half vampire, half human) named Kat has decided to stake vampires for a living to avoid the fact that she is actually one herself. But when she runs into the handsome vampire Bones, she lets him train her, get close to her and even into her bed. Perhaps you’re not really into the whole bedding a vampire? Well, then آپ could always try ’The Gardella Vampire Choricles’, written سے طرف کی Colleen Gleason, where the young woman Victoria is forced to balance between her social life and her job as a vampire-killer. Though if آپ chose this series, I advise آپ to only read the first couple of books. The quality of the کتابیں are rapidly descending. Finally there is the vampire-slays-vampire books. Here I’d definitely recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon’s ’Dark-Hunter’ books. None of the characters are vampires in the normal sense of the word, but they do have many vampire traits that makes it almost the same. Here two different kinds of vampires battle each other – the Dark-Hunters, who are ancient men یا women wronged in their mortal life and then made immortal to get their revenge, and then there are the Daimons, who are soul-sucking, damned people fighting to survive in a world were nothing goes their way. To add an extra twist to this, Sherrilyn Kenyon spices her story with a چائے spoon of love and a dash of lust. Each book follows a new couple that have to fight both themselves and the Daimons.
The Teenage Vampire
Now, this is where most people go wrong. They believe that vampire literature for young adults is sugary sweet and sticky, but if آپ know what to look for, آپ can find some really good stuff out there, whether you’re a teenager یا an adult. آپ can find the classical teenage vampire in ’The Vampire Diaries’ سے طرف کی L.J. Smith. In this book the young girl Elena has just lost both her parents, but she is about to get a whole lot مزید when she falls in love with the new guy Stephan. But there is something different about Stephan, and there is something lethal about his brother Damon. Both brothers want Elena for their own reasons. If this type of teenage fiction doesn’t appeal to you, there are the ‘vampire school’ novels, ’House of Night’ and ’Vampire Academy’. ’House of Night’ is written سے طرف کی P.C. and Kristin Cast. In this book the otherwise normal girl Zoey is suddenly starting to transform into a vampire and must go to the vampire school House of Night. Soon it becomes obvious that there is something special about Zoey and something seriously wrong with House of Night. In ’Vampire Academy’ سے طرف کی Richelle Mead the two best دوستوں Lissa and Rose. Lissa is a vampire princess and it is Rose’s job to protect her from harm. But that’s not all that easy to do when the enemy is close, really, really close.
The Romantic Vampire
When everything else fails there’s always the paranormal romance with a vampire یا two. Many of the کتابیں already mentioned (’Vampire Academy’, ’House of Night’, ’The Vampire Diaries’, ’Dark-Hunter’, ’The Night Huntress Series’) also fit into this category. If neither of these کتابیں were of your liking then perhaps آپ would like ’The Dark-Ones’ سے طرف کی Katie MacAlister. The first thing that springs to mind with these books, are their titles. The first book is called ’A Girl’s Guide to Vampires’. Now, if this doesn’t imply paranormal romance, I don’t know what does. In this book the vampires, also called the Dark Ones, are forever searching for their Beloved. In order to claim his Beloved (in this universe there are no female vampires), the vampire most go through 7 steps of the Joining. Some of these steps involve kissing, trusting his Beloved with his life, sex and exchange of bodily fluids. So beware, these کتابیں are quite explicit. If آپ still need a bit مزید mystery on the side, آپ can always go for the ’Sookie Stackhouse Series’ سے طرف کی Charlaine Harris. In these کتابیں vampires are out in the open and Miss Sookie Stackhouse is instantly attracted to her small town vampire Bill. But a relationship between the two is nowhere near easy. There’s the obvious problem with the age difference, 100+ years, but there’s also the town folks to worry about. And mysterious murders and rivalring vampires doesn’t make it any easier. If آپ decide to start these books, I’ll tell آپ straight with you, I didn’t enjoy these books. I found the plot lacking, but perhaps you’ll enjoy them مزید than me.
The Sparkly Vampire
Okay, so maybe آپ don’t like sparkly vampires. Fine, I can agree with you, the sparkly part is strange. But what else is wrong with these books? Sure the heroine might be pretty annoying from time to time and Stephenie Meyer definitely isn’t a prime writer, but she sure is a story teller. And Twilight is the ultimate love story between a vampire and a human. I mean, come on who can resist the intense, utterly romantic Edward Cullen? یا the easy-going, funny Jacob Black? Okay, okay, so آپ don’t think you’ll like it, you’d rather just hate on something you’ve never tried out. Is that it? Well, too bad. You’re the one missing out, not me. I just have to listen to all your bullshit and crap about something آپ don’t know a thing about. So please, try it. Just open the first book and read a couple of chapters. If آپ still don’t like it, then we’ll talk. Until then…
Toodles and happy reading!
The Classical Vampire
The first vampire to appear in fictional literature was created سے طرف کی the British مصنف John William Polidori in his book ‘The Vampyre’. After this came the rather long short story ‘Carmilla’ سے طرف کی Sheridan Le Fanu. But it was a work inspired سے طرف کی these two stories that remains the greatest vampire story to this دن – Bram Stoker’s ’Dracula’. ’Dracula’, which was published in 1897, started a Vampire craze the hasn’t ceased yet. It is in this novel that we find the original, classic vampire. آپ know the kind that has no reflection, doesn’t like garlic یا sunshine and dies after being stabbed in the heart. The evil Count Dracula has decided to leave his Transylvanian قلعہ to come to England. But there are some, who oppose him, especially after he attacks a really special woman and makes her a vampire as well. For those who don’t like today’s vampires, ’Dracula’ could easily be loved. And if آپ enjoyed this, آپ should definitely try ’The Historian’ سے طرف کی Elizabeth Kostova. Here we follow a young woman, who, through her father’s letters, find the ‘real’ Dracula and learns a disturbing truth about her family.
The Anne چاول Vampire
آپ might know the vampires Louis and Lestat from the movie ’Interview with the Vampire’ starring Tom Cruise as Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis. Well, did آپ know that not only was this movie originally a book, there are also 7 other کتابیں in the series called ’The Vampire Chronicles’? Furthermore there are a couple of independent vampire کتابیں سے طرف کی the Queen of vampire fiction, Anne Rice. In ’Interview with the Vampire’ we follow the sweet and morally plagued vampire Louis as he tells about his mean and evil creator Lestat. But Lestat is not one to sit سے طرف کی and be offended, he writes a couple of کتابیں himself, both telling about his life with Louis and his life after him. Lestat is far from perfect, so if آپ like your heroes to have an edge, you’ll love Anne Rice’s کتابیں about Lestat.
The Vampire Hunter
If آپ don’t enjoy the vampire-hero, then how about the vampire hunter? Here the vampires are the bad guys, usually, and they are being hunted سے طرف کی either mere humans یا dhampires. Sure, once in a while آپ get a nice, heroic vampire, but usually the vampires are the ones getting staked and laughed at. If this sort of vampire-novel appeals to آپ more, try ’The Night Huntress Series’ سے طرف کی Jeaniene Frost. Here the dhampir (a dhampir is half vampire, half human) named Kat has decided to stake vampires for a living to avoid the fact that she is actually one herself. But when she runs into the handsome vampire Bones, she lets him train her, get close to her and even into her bed. Perhaps you’re not really into the whole bedding a vampire? Well, then آپ could always try ’The Gardella Vampire Choricles’, written سے طرف کی Colleen Gleason, where the young woman Victoria is forced to balance between her social life and her job as a vampire-killer. Though if آپ chose this series, I advise آپ to only read the first couple of books. The quality of the کتابیں are rapidly descending. Finally there is the vampire-slays-vampire books. Here I’d definitely recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon’s ’Dark-Hunter’ books. None of the characters are vampires in the normal sense of the word, but they do have many vampire traits that makes it almost the same. Here two different kinds of vampires battle each other – the Dark-Hunters, who are ancient men یا women wronged in their mortal life and then made immortal to get their revenge, and then there are the Daimons, who are soul-sucking, damned people fighting to survive in a world were nothing goes their way. To add an extra twist to this, Sherrilyn Kenyon spices her story with a چائے spoon of love and a dash of lust. Each book follows a new couple that have to fight both themselves and the Daimons.
The Teenage Vampire
Now, this is where most people go wrong. They believe that vampire literature for young adults is sugary sweet and sticky, but if آپ know what to look for, آپ can find some really good stuff out there, whether you’re a teenager یا an adult. آپ can find the classical teenage vampire in ’The Vampire Diaries’ سے طرف کی L.J. Smith. In this book the young girl Elena has just lost both her parents, but she is about to get a whole lot مزید when she falls in love with the new guy Stephan. But there is something different about Stephan, and there is something lethal about his brother Damon. Both brothers want Elena for their own reasons. If this type of teenage fiction doesn’t appeal to you, there are the ‘vampire school’ novels, ’House of Night’ and ’Vampire Academy’. ’House of Night’ is written سے طرف کی P.C. and Kristin Cast. In this book the otherwise normal girl Zoey is suddenly starting to transform into a vampire and must go to the vampire school House of Night. Soon it becomes obvious that there is something special about Zoey and something seriously wrong with House of Night. In ’Vampire Academy’ سے طرف کی Richelle Mead the two best دوستوں Lissa and Rose. Lissa is a vampire princess and it is Rose’s job to protect her from harm. But that’s not all that easy to do when the enemy is close, really, really close.
The Romantic Vampire
When everything else fails there’s always the paranormal romance with a vampire یا two. Many of the کتابیں already mentioned (’Vampire Academy’, ’House of Night’, ’The Vampire Diaries’, ’Dark-Hunter’, ’The Night Huntress Series’) also fit into this category. If neither of these کتابیں were of your liking then perhaps آپ would like ’The Dark-Ones’ سے طرف کی Katie MacAlister. The first thing that springs to mind with these books, are their titles. The first book is called ’A Girl’s Guide to Vampires’. Now, if this doesn’t imply paranormal romance, I don’t know what does. In this book the vampires, also called the Dark Ones, are forever searching for their Beloved. In order to claim his Beloved (in this universe there are no female vampires), the vampire most go through 7 steps of the Joining. Some of these steps involve kissing, trusting his Beloved with his life, sex and exchange of bodily fluids. So beware, these کتابیں are quite explicit. If آپ still need a bit مزید mystery on the side, آپ can always go for the ’Sookie Stackhouse Series’ سے طرف کی Charlaine Harris. In these کتابیں vampires are out in the open and Miss Sookie Stackhouse is instantly attracted to her small town vampire Bill. But a relationship between the two is nowhere near easy. There’s the obvious problem with the age difference, 100+ years, but there’s also the town folks to worry about. And mysterious murders and rivalring vampires doesn’t make it any easier. If آپ decide to start these books, I’ll tell آپ straight with you, I didn’t enjoy these books. I found the plot lacking, but perhaps you’ll enjoy them مزید than me.
The Sparkly Vampire
Okay, so maybe آپ don’t like sparkly vampires. Fine, I can agree with you, the sparkly part is strange. But what else is wrong with these books? Sure the heroine might be pretty annoying from time to time and Stephenie Meyer definitely isn’t a prime writer, but she sure is a story teller. And Twilight is the ultimate love story between a vampire and a human. I mean, come on who can resist the intense, utterly romantic Edward Cullen? یا the easy-going, funny Jacob Black? Okay, okay, so آپ don’t think you’ll like it, you’d rather just hate on something you’ve never tried out. Is that it? Well, too bad. You’re the one missing out, not me. I just have to listen to all your bullshit and crap about something آپ don’t know a thing about. So please, try it. Just open the first book and read a couple of chapters. If آپ still don’t like it, then we’ll talk. Until then…
Toodles and happy reading!
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Besides the book there was a movie in the 80's starring Daryl Hanna (Kill bill).
Totally Amazing!! Every Woman Should read it!!
The Story
While reading the novel, I did not quite understand the story and it was not until the سیکنڈ half of the story that I managed to understand. It telling us to follow our dreams if a person desires for it!
The Characters
Santiago (or the Boy in this story) is a very likable character because he manage to understand what the Alchemist is telling despite being relatively young, he is my favourite character out of the novel!
The other characters like the Englishman and just to name a few are very ambiguous, if آپ ask me.
Is It Worth Reading?
Yes, I highly recommend this book for those who have not read it yet!