Wednesday, July 27, 2016

An Unattractive Vampire; This is a Call

 I really enjoyed Jim McDoniel's "An Unattractive Vampire", it was witty and snarky and fun. Yulric is a thousand year old vampire, trapped for the last three hundred years underground. A young woman named Amanda releases him. Amanda wants to be a vampire, she's bought into the modern day vampire mythos: the beautiful, people friendly vampire who has superpowers and can live forever (yes, he's dissing "Twilight". Which is fine, I get it). Yulric is horrified to learn how far his kind have fallen, people aren't even scared of vampires anymore! He decides to fix the situation by rounding up a gang of old-school vampires and showing these pathetic newcomers what a *real* vampire is like.
After reading "Dave Grohl: Times Like His" and not really liking it, I thought maybe I'd try this one instead to see if it was more about his personal life and less about the obscure musicians he cites as influences. It was slightly better, but still skimpy on the personal stuff, which I get. Grohl is a notoriously private person, and who can blame him? I enjoyed the story of how he met his second wife (he gave her his number in a bar and told her she was going to be his ex-wife someday...charming). All in all he's a lucky guy who has the freedom to basically do whatever in the hell he wants to creatively, and gets paid a bloody fortune for it. It's nice that he realizes how lucky he is, he says it over and over again, he's grateful. It was also pretty funny to read how he doesn't find himself attractive. Silly man. At any rate, it was a lot easier to get through the the other book and more interesting.

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