lets talk about Vampires

My life is currently hijacked by vampires and a waitress by the name of sookie stackhouse Charlane Harris has me by the balls and she’s not letting go by that I mean the southern vampire mysteries (which was made in to the tv show True blood) I’m loving them although be warned of two things 1 the books are Very different to the show and 2 the books are like heroin read on and your hooked
What I’m about to say next will cause me to cop a lot of flak there better than the twilight series … a lot better
Let my put it another way twilight is romantic drivel that goes on and on … and on there vampires and werewolves and telepaths in twilight but there all so angst and love Lorne and (I’m now fearing for my life) but Edward is a bit of a chauvinist and he’s kind of rude and Jacob comes across as a bit of a hick (and sort of paedophilic)
Where as the southern vampire mysteries the vampires hold more true to legends for the most part there more action there’s more sex the characters are better and more believable and every one speaks in a southern accent seriously as you read the words you hear the drawl in there voices
There not very long books but then again there aren’t pages and pages about how one of the characters skin sparkles or about how the characters feel yes the southern vampire mysteries touch on those things but it’s more like “Sookie felt sad” period not eight pages about how she felt sad and what it could be compared to and what it might be like to feel sad in the future
I read twilight and I liked it but the southern vampire mysteries are better
There are lots of little nagging things wrong with twilight that aren’t in southern vamps the diversity issue for starters there are full on hard core differences in the people there are straight gay lesbian bisexual and pansexual there are Asians Africans African-Americans Caucasians native Americans Scandinavians the works in the southern vamps
In twilight there are some native Americans and an Asian kid that’s it.
There’s sex and drugs and rock and roll there’s dating and guns and fist fights in the southern vamps In twilight there’s a day at the beach a baseball game and a trip to Italy
There are telepaths and vampires and shape shifters and were wolfs and a maenad and fairies and witches and Elvis in the southern vampires
In twilight there’s shape changers in to wolf (which isn‘t technically being a werewolf WTF) and vampires
The twilight books are just very limited
And even though the book is different to the screen in both cases true blood with it’s independent story line from the books is still super interesting
Twilight annoyed the shit out of me with it’s book trimming for god sake they cut out funny cool moments and left Bella moping it was two hours of moping a car chase and a very short fight that’s it.
True blood is all sexy and cool and there are levels too it some people just like cos it’s got a chest blond in it and numerous boob shots others watch it for the myths and others still for the hot guys and yet still others for the politics of it
I watch it cos it’s funny and cool and it’s not insulting like twilight
In closing do your selves a favour go out right now and buy the southern vampire mysteries novels you will not be disappointed I promise