Originally Posted by Anteater

Riveting story? Really now? Stephanie Meyer couldn't even do herself the service of reading either Dracula or Salem's Lot because she was afraid of her ****ty universe being "contaminated" by other influences, yet isn't scared of creating vampires that operate like a mediocre crossbreed between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, with some teen angst thrown in to get the Harry Potter crowd to shift gears and open their wallets for this kind of excrement.

What this generation needs is a vampire novel that brings the concept back to its pre-Victorian roots in an original way, not rehashing the same urban contemporary werewolf vs vampire BS that has been propagating itself through bookstores over the last decade.