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A review by maryehavens
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side by Margot Adler
3.0
Not what I expected but not terrible.
1) It's really an annotated bibliography of the 270ish vampire works Adler read while processing her husband's death. Once I got to that part, I treated it like a reference work and skimmed over entries that sounded terrible. At first I thought it was Adler's writing style (some of the entries sounded like a grocery list) but I realized that reviewing a terrible book often sounds like writing a grocery list. Convuluted plots are hard to review!
2) I really wanted this to be a psychological dig into why we create vampires but it looks like I need to read Nina Auerbach's Our Vampires, Ourselves. Good thing it was recommended by my new BFF!
3) Then I thought: why did Adler write this? And she says because she wanted to and she's grateful that the vision did not change. So the misleading tagline is the marketing department's fault, not hers.
4) I found Adler to be delightful. Any author who discloses her Weight Watchers achievements is fine by me. She made me laugh many times with her descriptions of books she wasn't into.
5) I didn't need to read an annotated bibliography; I have plenty to read. Soooo, expect my reading list to explode.
1) It's really an annotated bibliography of the 270ish vampire works Adler read while processing her husband's death. Once I got to that part, I treated it like a reference work and skimmed over entries that sounded terrible. At first I thought it was Adler's writing style (some of the entries sounded like a grocery list) but I realized that reviewing a terrible book often sounds like writing a grocery list. Convuluted plots are hard to review!
2) I really wanted this to be a psychological dig into why we create vampires but it looks like I need to read Nina Auerbach's Our Vampires, Ourselves. Good thing it was recommended by my new BFF!
3) Then I thought: why did Adler write this? And she says because she wanted to and she's grateful that the vision did not change. So the misleading tagline is the marketing department's fault, not hers.
4) I found Adler to be delightful. Any author who discloses her Weight Watchers achievements is fine by me. She made me laugh many times with her descriptions of books she wasn't into.
5) I didn't need to read an annotated bibliography; I have plenty to read. Soooo, expect my reading list to explode.