it would make a horrible movie

[lauralh]

Reading The Historian made me want to go back to Eastern Europe. And not just to kill Dracula, either.

The plot is mainly just a backdrop for the travelling around, which is fine by me, as I love travelogues, but I also love vampires, so it's a total win-win situation. France, Vienna, Romania, Bulgaria, Oxford, and Istanbul are described so intimately that you'd swear you could put the book down and go to a cafe across the way. But the little slice of paranoia from the vampires watching you is also perfect. The generalized "no matter what you do, your enemy can kill you anytime he wants" plot is probably my favorite, especially with the "young people, hormones, danger" bits thrown in. I think we'll buy it when the paperback comes out.

Comments

[ashlin519.livejournal.com]

Did you get it from the library or own it in hardback? Let me know who it's by, I'd be interested in reading it

library

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316011770/sr=1-1/qid=1138830787

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

dude, i so totally resent the eastern bloc implication there :)! Yugoslavia was part of the non-aligned movement, not the eastern bloc. Alright, I give you Prague and East Berlin!!

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

But it was still communist!

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

yeah, but it wasn't in the bloc

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Should I change the tag to "formerly communist"?

(There's a great little scene set in the Tower in Split, too.)

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

yeah you should, what scene?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

It's in the book.

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

oh, i should read it then! i thought you meant the picture you have somwhere (not on this link, tho),
where we are all up in the tower and i actually have boobs and you and i look like we are getting
it on ;). i like that picture!

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

hahaha, no.

and I changed it.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

[bythesea.livejournal.com]

right, that one :)!!