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Darn it, my little sister gave me this book for my bday (34 days ago), and now I've done gone and ordered the other 3 books (new moon, eclipse, and breaking dawn) from Chapters. #2 and #3 already came and I read them, and now I'm waiting for #4 to make it thru the bad weather and the postal strike problems.

I don't even really see what the huge fuss is about, but in Dan-Brown-type-fashion these books kind of pull you along. The author does improve as she goes though....like Harry Potter did.

hmph. all my sister's fault. priso keeps laughing at me. i'm gonna make him read them.

S'not my fault. Been locked in a snow-bound hill fortress for the last several weeks.

I needed an option for "I don't do vampires."

The teenager where I lived in Australia was reading one of the books and trying to tell me how good it was. I just can't get into vampires. And falling in love with a vampire? A creature that sucks blood out of people? I mean, I know it's not real, but there's a stinking limit. Next we'll have someone falling in love with a Borg drone. And not in Unimatrix Zero, either.

Yeah, I've never read any vampire stuff either. Never been my thing.



Like I said, the plot isn't ENTIRELY what one would expect from soemthing that everyone's yammering about so much.

I tried to see the movie. Well... maybe it's better I do not say anything. Anyway, it surely didn't encourage me to read any book about it.

JadziaKathryn wrote:I needed an option for "I don't do vampires."

The teenager where I lived in Australia was reading one of the books and trying to tell me how good it was. I just can't get into vampires. And falling in love with a vampire? A creature that sucks blood out of people? I mean, I know it's not real, but there's a stinking limit. Next we'll have someone falling in love with a Borg drone. And not in Unimatrix Zero, either.

lol, what about Chakotay? No you mean a real borg drone... well... This is off topic but I'd have a problem with that just b/c they have no individuality. But... a liberated drone?

I haven't read the books yet, but I probably will eventually.

I never did vampire stuff either, until I got into Forever Knight, and that almost wasn't even until the show was canceled. I'm not much of a horror movie person, so I tend to avoid things with gore, but Forever Knight was tame on the gore factor so it was all good. Eventually I gave Buffy a chance, too.

The thing about falling in love with vampires and the whole vampire sexuality vs. bloodsucking thing...we actually had a discussion about this at A Larger World once. We know that historically these types of things were a metaphor for a sex scene, because when stories like Dracula were originally written, you just didn't write about sex.

Flipping that around, though, if vampires were real, the drinking of blood is the process of reproduction (that is, unless you're just dinner!), just as sex is the process of reproduction for humans. I know different writers do it differently, but the most common way I've seen to make more vampires on TV and in movies is for the vampire to drink your blood, and then to feed you theirs...it is the very body fluid exchange that leads to an addition to the vampire population, so to me it kind of makes sense that there's a perceived sensuality both on the part of the writers and the readers/viewers.

That, and in the last few decades we've been introduced to the "good" vampire...the one who isn't so bad because he's searching for his humanity, or he's just fascinated by humanity, or whatever, so he's not so threatening. The Kinder-Gentler, Warmer-Fuzzier Bloodsucker.

I was never into the Vampire genre either, until I saw True Blood. I know it's based on a different set of books ("Southern" something), but I liked it. Idk if I should watch the movie first to see what I think or read the book. I have a cam of the film but I'd rather see a DVD release.

*sigh*. MY KINGDOM FOR A BLURAY PLAYER!

how much would you pay for a new external usb blu-ray player with cd/dvd burner?

Cause I might have some soon.

enterprikayak wrote:how much would you pay for a new external usb blu-ray player with cd/dvd burner?

Cause I might have some soon.

What, they fell off the back of a truck or something?

Buurman wrote:

enterprikayak wrote:how much would you pay for a new external usb blu-ray player with cd/dvd burner?

Cause I might have some soon.

What, they fell off the back of a truck or something?

That's what I'm thinkin!

Is Priso the new Tony Soprano of Vancouver? Or... the Vancouver area... w/e you live

IDK... PM me. lol


btw how does USB have the bandwidth for bluray?

we've been buying some shite from china in wholesale lots to sell on ebay.

enterprikayak wrote:we've been buying some shite from china in wholesale lots to sell on ebay.

You guys are funny.

Elessar wrote:

JadziaKathryn wrote:I needed an option for "I don't do vampires."

The teenager where I lived in Australia was reading one of the books and trying to tell me how good it was. I just can't get into vampires. And falling in love with a vampire? A creature that sucks blood out of people? I mean, I know it's not real, but there's a stinking limit. Next we'll have someone falling in love with a Borg drone. And not in Unimatrix Zero, either.

lol, what about Chakotay? No you mean a real borg drone... well... This is off topic but I'd have a problem with that just b/c they have no individuality. But... a liberated drone?

That's what I meant, a real drone. Hey, we can even try and sex up assimilation as reproduction, right?

JadziaKathryn wrote: That's what I meant, a real drone. Hey, we can even try and sex up assimilation as reproduction, right?

Depends. Is your Borg supposed to be rich, handsome, and seductive like Dracula?

Elessar wrote:

Buurman wrote:

enterprikayak wrote:how much would you pay for a new external usb blu-ray player with cd/dvd burner?

Cause I might have some soon.

What, they fell off the back of a truck or something?

That's what I'm thinkin!

Is Priso the new Tony Soprano of Vancouver? Or... the Vancouver area... w/e you live

IDK... PM me. lol


btw how does USB have the bandwidth for bluray?

USB is cutting it a bit fine. It'd be damned slow (tho probably watchable) at any rate, and you can forget burning them...

I don't get the hype TBH. I've read some of the book and didn't like it much and for me the film sucked on ice. It's interesting actually, depending on who you ask the film is either really good or terrible. lol

Oh well, there'll be something new before long...