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Title: Piercing the Darkness : Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland ISBN: 0-06-105945-5 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.54 (35 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not accurate representation
Comment: This book is interesting to read, but it is *not* an accurate representation of real vampires. It's far more representative of the "vampyre lifestyle", nightclub and "party scene", BDSM and dark fetish, and flamboyant, attention-seeking people who are only vampires in their own minds.
"Vampirism is not a world. It's not a lifestyle. It's not a fetishism. It's something you are born as. Drinking blood doesn't make you a Vampire, nor does acting like one and being "vampyric". -- Quote from an elist.
I've had it with so-called non-fiction writings about real vampires and vampirism which do not portray an accurate representation of the life or individuals. Of course, it's the attention-seekers who are the ones who always get into these writings (as well as talk shows). I wish people would start making an effort to give an accurate account of such things.
We don't need any more outsiders looking in.
I'd say this book is way overrated. I would not recommend it unless you're someone who doesn't really care about learning anything real about the vampire community and just want to read something for entertainment. If you want facts, do a web search for real vampires. There are plenty of good sites with accurate information from those who KNOW what they are talking about because they are a part of it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Amazingly Boring...
Comment: This account of Ms. Ramslands investigation into the disappearance of Susan Walsh and subsequent exposure to the "underground vampire scene" is dead boring.
Ramsland loses the Walsh story within the first two chapters and then the book cascades into her snooze provoking adventures into underground clubs (which appear to be your standard pseudo-bondage pick up bars). The contacts she meets are also of no particular consequence and the only slightly frightening aspect about them is their need desperate of psychologic help.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not at all that it claims to be...
Comment: I sat in my chair for a good while trying to figure out a way in which to not completely trash this book, and could come up with none. While the back of the book promises to take one "deep inside the little known yet growing 'vampire' subculture," it instead drags you through page after page of homo-erotic vampire sex stories. Even the chapter on vampire roleplaying (LARP)degenerates into more homo-erotic nonsense by the end. Is there sexuality in the vampire subculture? Most certainly. Are homosexuals and bisexuals a part of this culture? Yes, they certainly are, and they have their stories to tell too. I just wish it would have been for one chapter instead of the entire book.
In many great vampire works we see the sexual tensions of vampires (Between Louis and Lestat in 'Interview with a Vampire' for example). But it is purposefully underspoken and leaves the viewer/reader to wonder about the true nature of vampires, whether real or lore. Ms. Ramsland can't seem to get past Ms. Rice's work and the more sexually promiscuous vampires she has encountered. Her work on Rice's books was certainly more insightful and enjoyable.
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Title: The Science of Vampires by Katherine M. Ramsland ISBN: 0425186164 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Vampires: The Occult Truth by Konstantinos ISBN: 1567183808 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ghost: Investigating the Other Side by Katherine Ramsland ISBN: 0312983735 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Vampires Among Us by Rosemary Ellen Guiley ISBN: 0671723618 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cemetery Stories : Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death by Katherine Ramsland ISBN: 006018518X Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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