you ever happen to find that, at certain moments of your life , there is an unusually high concentration of something such as, for example, novels and films about vampires or something? To me, and I happen quite often, and not all of these vampires. But this time, it is just vampires. And 'all started with the vampire classic, of course, but those I have fed early. For charity, charming and everything, but too tied to an outdated imagery without remedy from reality, much more harsh, violent, bad, bloody and ruthless than any count of a remote village in Eastern Europe. Then came
Carpenter (it's amazing his ability to do "b-movie" that are almost always small masterpieces ...) with "Vampires" to give more body (literally) the myth of vampires then in my personal semicasuale due to the way in which I "discovered" movies and novels, from "From Dusk Till Dawn" by Rodriguez, to finish with the trilogy of "Blade," "Underworld" and everything else. I was missing, and it was not just a lack, a good novel about vampires in a modern way, abandoning the classical stereotypes and a little 'mawkish originated from the novel by Bram Stoker.
Not that I did not look for it during one of my usual wanderings for libraries, I came across "Dust to Dust" by Laurell K. Hamilton. "At sunrise, some of us are still alive and some are not." Unable to resist the urge to buy the book. A black box, which then is one of the best ways to make big rip-off or find out novels to read from cover to cover almost without breathing. "Dust to Dust" is part of the second row, without a doubt. I discovered that Hamilton is famous as the protagonist of his novels, Anita Blake, so that there is a community large and active fan base that calls itself "Anitaverse ... and who has published fourteen novels. One of the merits of Hamilton is to not want to explain what a vampire, and is second only to that you have created an alternate universe where magic works (but without many special effects and cost of labor, training and natural disposition) and vampires and werewolves are not fantasy figures, but the neighbors. The Blade is a
risvegliante: Resuscitating dead (for a fee, of course, because in the end to which an employee is the boss always asks to work more than necessary), attends the vampire flirt, has a penchant for a werewolf , is found most frequently covered with bruises and blood, his clothes irreversibly damaged, involved in shootings and in disputes between human beings thousands of years, often has the problem of how to dress, given the fact that they always carry around an arsenal ... and lives in an alternate universe consistent with ours, tainted only by the presence of mythological creatures (not just vampires and werewolves), enriched by the magic and phenomena "mystics," living with petrol cars and nagging neighbors with dogs living with you. Four novels later, "Blood Knot", "Black Moon", "The Circus of the Damned" and the aforementioned "Dust to dust," I can understand, or maybe just a perception, because the result of both the source and of the appeal issued by Anita Blake.
The feeling is that Hamilton has modeled the protagonist of his novels on itself (and vampires? Who has inspired his friends?) Allowing them to make it more likely that subject, as each of us having to endure the small mishaps and annoyances of life, details that work together to make it less abstract. I do not know how many of you attend, of course, just because they read the books, writers, "serial" (I know, rather than a Stephen King or Clive Clusser Michael Connelly or Wilbur Smith or something) you have the gift of find, every time, that atmosphere, that way of telling the story, those characters that you have passion, without wanting. Well, almost. Moreover
know that, if anything were to disappoint you, have ready a new novel to renew the magic. Here, this is probably the biggest flaw of Hamilton. But you will be ready to forgive, if you engage in tune with his prose. Link to the publisher's North, with all the news of the case on the books and their author: http://www.nord.fantascienza.it/catalog/scheda.php?libro=CN0210
Almost forgot: the title of 'view is linked to the fact that Laurell K. Hamilton, as a teenager, he thought of becoming a biologist ... except that my grandmother, who has brought up after the death of his mother, has nurtured a large doses of fantasy and horror novels, the first cause the flourish of his subsequent artistic talent ...
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