Date: 2010-08-26 01:06 pm (UTC)
> Do you know that SMeyer is the second highest paid living author? The only one who makes more money than her is James Patterson.

I read that somewhere recently, actually. And apparently JP also has a host of co-authors -- dunno how that plays into the "highest paid" calculation.

After I got the syllabus I posted to facebook, "Elizabeth realized that taking "The Vampire in Literature and Film" this fall means she'll have to actually read _Twilight_ (though okay, I'm auditing the class, so technically I don't HAVE to)."

Everything else I don't have a problem with reading -- though I'm not thrilled with the syllabus; the syllabus says, "The course will explore the many aspects of vampire literature’s evolution, from its origins in the gothic tradition to its recent incarnation as hip "urban fantasy" and “paranormal romance,”" but I after the early gothic stuff (most of which I'm either happy to reread or have been meaning to read) we jump to Interview with the Vampire (which I'm happy to reread, and which is certainly an important text in a vampire literature survey) and then I feel like it's all urban fantasy and paranormal romance from the past two decades -- excepting Let the Right One In (which I heard really good things about and have been meaning to see/read), The Historian (which I read not long after it came out, and which I don't actively dislike, but it's a long book, reminiscent of A.S.Byatt's Possession, and I'm not sure it has a whole lot to say about the enduring popularity of the vampire myth -- which I think is what this course is supposed to be about), and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (which I have been interested in reading, but which I feel like speaks less to the enduring popularity of vampires and more to the recent trend of mashups that add monsters to classic texts -- though it is one of the rare texts we're reading that focuses on a vampire *hunter,* and which also doesn't have a romantic/sexual element to the relationship between vampire and ~protagonist).
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