Speaking of vampires, I just finished part one of Guillermo del Toro's and Chuck Hogan's vampire trilogy:
The Strain. Didn't realize how refreshing it would be to read, for a change, a story about vampires that weren't romantic figures in any stretch of the word.
The book had a sort of a CSI: Vampire/ Crossing Jordan/ Bones kind of feel to it, with the CDC trying to figure out just what the hell happened to a plane full of people.
I liked the way they took many of the familiar vampire cliches like the elderly vampire hunter professor, and gave it a different spin. Also, couldn't help but think that the shock rocker turned vampire might have been a bit of a poke at Anne Rice and her beloved Lestat. I lolled how one of the first things the creature did was to let all the stalking goth fans and the paparazzi inside the mansion... :evilgrin:
On the downside, though the characters don't, you basically know what is going on from early on, so the initial mysterious disease storyline with all the investigation maybe a bit dragged. But it was still quite fascinating stuff if you like that sort of thing. And when the shit hits the fan, it does so big time. People who have seen Blade 2 will propably recognize some of the ideas that del Toro evolves/recycles in here, however you want to put it. But once I got past all that, the book kept me reading until the end.
Youtube seems to have a couple of filmed scenes as teasers.
The damnable thing is that part two doesn't come out until somewhere around next year.
