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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 11:56:25 -0700 (PDT), derek  wrote:   
      
   >On Aug 1, 10:39 am, Öjevind Lång  wrote:   
   >   
   >> have been an inspiration to the woman who wrote the Twilight books.   
   >> (Stephenie Meyer - even her name is illiterate.)   
   >   
   >Looks multi-literate to me.  "Stephenie" is French (or maybe   
   >Quebecois).  I don't plan to read the novels to find out if she's   
   >remotely literate otherwise.   
      
   For all it's faults, I think "Dracula" is still probably the only vampire book   
   worth reading, through I don't have a wide experience, since the only others I   
   have read are Stephen King's "'Salem's lot" (which was predictable and   
   derivative), and Ann Rice's "Interview with the vampire", which bored me out   
   of my skull, but I forced myself to read just so that I could say that I had   
   read one of her books.   
      
   Of course writers can make vampires to be anything they want to be, just as   
   Tolkien's elves are different from those of other authors. But I can accept   
   Tolkien's elves on his own terms as what they happen to be in his world, but   
   Rice's vampires just seemed "wrong" to me, and to all accounts the "Twilight"   
   ones are worse.   
      
      
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