A Hunt for the Real Vampires

   I have decided to re-read all the Harry Potter books recently, but to make the experience last longer I also read a different book between each Harry Potter book. When I finished the Goblet of Fire I decided to read Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. My biggest motivator to read Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles was the need to find what a real vampire is! I was getting sick and tired of the new wave vampires that has got the whole world crazy. Yes, I am talking about Twilight and The Vampire Diaries.

Before all that crap came out I knew so so what a vampire was. I cannot believe how people fell for those new wave vampires, with their teenage problems. It is ridiculous. People easily forget that vampires might look 17 but they will always be 100 or even more years old on the inside! Just because they look young does not make it OK to have relationships with mortal girls that are 17 years old. We have all read real life stories of 80 years old millionaires getting married to 20 years old girls and I never heard anyone think it is right and anyone agreeing it is real love. But if the 80 year old guy looked 17 all of a sudden everyone is OK with it?! I don't get it.
  There are so many little things that are just not right, logically, in those new wave vampire books. I have read few books that have logical explanation of what a vampire is. Dracula by Bram Stoker is one of the best ones. I can say that Salem's Lot by Stephen King is also a good one. Definitely my favourite is Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I have found so many reasonable explanations about the vampire rice and written in a really good way that it makes you believe that vampires can be real. I definitely recommend this book if you are tired of all this teenage love stories between 100 years old vampires and 17 years old mortal girls, if you are disgusted by the wrongness and inaccuracy of those stories. Read the Vampire Chronicles or watch the amazing film with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. I personally think that Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst deserved an Oscar for their acting in the film. Kirsten Dunst role was really hard because she had to portrait 50 years old woman in the body of a 8 years old girl and she did it brilliantly.

  The book explains a lot of things like why are there no ancient vampires and their life span goes often for no longer than 200-300 years. And there are no crap human love stories!
  I am about the start the second book from the Vampire Chronicles- The Vampire Lestat. Cannot wait to find out his story, because the character is so charismatic and different from the rest of the vampires. I cannot help but imagine the characters in the book the way they presented them in the film, because I honestly think that they couldn't have casted better actors.

P.S.
How to Spot a Real Vampire

1. They won't be hanging out in high schools.
2. They are pale.
3. They have sharp teeth all the time.
4. They won't be out during the day.
5. They sleep! In coffins!
6. They do not sparkle!