- Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
- Verlag: HarperTorch; Auflage: New edition (6. Oktober 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061059455
- ISBN-13: 978-0061059452
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,3 x 10,7 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (18 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.561.559 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Katherine Ramsland sets Piercing the Darkness up as a story about Susan Walsh, a wannabe journalist who mysteriously disappeared while researching "real" vampires. While that story line ultimately sees less light than the vampires themselves, Ramsland's rambunctious, rambling tales of nightclubbing, international travel, and meticulous wardrobe selection among the creatures of the night provide ample entertainment. The book traces her circuitous route through AOL chat rooms, Paris's underground tunnels, and any number of goth and "vampyre" clubs, pursuing leads and hunches that seem to materialize from thin air. What the story might lack in integrity, it more than makes up for in sheer strangeness.
With each new foray by Ramsland (previously noted for celebrating Anne Rice in several books) into the unknown, we are treated to fascinating insights into the personalities and motivations of people who might well be the world's most devoted fans of Rice's supernatural melodramas. Ramsland is admirably guileless throughout, throwing herself, body and soul, into situations that would run counter to most people's common sense. In one memorable scene inside an exclusive S/M club, Ramsland concludes an evening of research by treating a female masochist to a good, solid whipping. A rollicking story of blood, sex, violence, and fashion in all their various combinations. --Lisa Higgins -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Having penned a biography of Anne Rice as well as guides to her works, Ramsland is well credentialed for tackling the contemporary cultural phenomenon of vampirism. She investigates the case of reporter Susan Walsh, who "suddenly disappeared while investigating Manhattan's vampire cults." Walsh--" a pretty blond, tall and thin, with pale skin and long hair" --" had a way of getting people to talk" and was reportedly rather paranoid just before she vanished, remarking to acquaintances that someone was after her. Whether she meant vampires or the Mafia or other malefactors is just one complicating factor in Ramsland's investigation. The search for Walsh may be the book's story line and unifying factor, but what Ramsland delivers is a tour of "the vampire realm," replete with character studies of real and imagined vampires, such as the pseudonymous Wraith, Shadow, and, of course, Christian. Ramsland sketches the denizens of the night she encounters sympathetically, even when they are genuinely scary. She approaches them with an air of Margaret Meadish anthropological inquiry and casts her findings in a style reminiscent of Rice's steamy-to-mildly-erotic oeuvre. Ramsland never finds Walsh yet forms some conclusions about what happened to her. Conclusions or no, her book is an excellent presentation of a little-known, possibly trendy subgroup and should find an audience wherever there is a high census of, or high interest in, modern-day Goths. Corpse paint anyone? Mike Tribby
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Maybe I picked up this book for some morbid curiousity about weirdos, or maybe I just wanted to be entertained with a "normal" person's trip across to the other side. Either way, Piercing the Darkness definitely didn't satisfy. I kept finding myself speed reading through pages and pages of internet chats, shopping trips, and vampire conventions, just to get to the juicy parts. By the way, they only happened when she interviewed the "vampires" only to get back a bundle of lies laced with outer space philosophy. I'm sorry. Did I say philosophy? I'm sorry to degrade the great school by connecting that stuff to the nature of reality. I'm sure you've talked to people and they feed you stories that registers high on the bs meter. I was expecting a "real" account...an undercover look at the weirdo scene. That didn't happen. I don't recommend this book to anyone, especially if you really are into this scene. Talk to a few gothic-looking philosophy student dropouts, and you'll find better entertainment.
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I read this book about 6 mths ago, but from what i can recall, i remember being very much entranced by it and not being able to put it down. It is basically about this woman (katherine ramsland) adventure into the "dark" vampire world and her encounters with different people. The only part i would say that did not intrigue me was the part about role playing. Those chapters may be skipped. Overall, an average book.
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Overall, I really enjoyed this book, although I admit, I did have to wade through a lot of irrelevant information such as the tiresome references to Anne Rice books. I appreciated Ramsland's presentation of the different ideas of what a vampire is and what it represents and possible influences. I really don't feel that she was especially "deep undercover" though. She really didn't go too far past what I would consider to be "goth" culture. Whether or not some of the accounts were true or fabricated (i.e. the Wraith story) they were interesting and even occasionally thought provoking. It was a bit tamer than I expected it to be. I'm not sure the author was completely willing to take any serious risks that might have given the story a better climax.
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A Discussion of Vampiric Lifestyle
Ms. Ramsland narrates her encounters and interviews within the "Vampire Underground". I accepted her narrative at face value: a true discussion of her experiences. Ms. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Januar 2000 von Richard Ballard
You mean vampires are real?
It was a toss up, a book about that serial killer in Alaska who turned hookers loose in the wilderness and hunted them like animals or Piercing the Darkness... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Dezember 1999 von Media Resistance
What a pity.
Given that the subject matter is pretty interesting, I found the book hard to read, mostly because of Ramsland's scattered organization, wierd investigative techniques, and uneven... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Worth It If Only To Chuckle At The Author
This book should have been subtitled "The Perils of Katherine." The author made herself sound like such a brave damsel in distress out among the vampires that I had to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. November 1999 von Mv2.3
Another avertisement for Anne Rice
With all of the references to Anne Rice in this so-called "investigation" into modern-day vampires, you would think that Anne was getting co-author credit. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. November 1999 veröffentlicht
LAME!
This book is a total waste of time & money. It offered no insight on vampires. You get more info in an episode of Buffy or Angel.
Am 20. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Bad Fiction, Not Good Journalism.
Which would be more insulting to a reader's intelligence? That Ramsland's "investigative journalism" is so flimsy that she's taken in by transparently fictional vampire... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Where will Katherine take us in her next, I cant wait to see
Katherine is a wonderful story teller. She has a keen view of the people she is looking at as she seeks to learn more of others, herself, and the world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. August 1999 veröffentlicht
positive with hesitations
Not graphic enough to be a trashy read and yet not insightful enough either to qualify as a psychological analysis of the vampire subculture but interesting enough despite being a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. August 1999 veröffentlicht
I'm terribly sorry for this pun, but this book lacks bite
I'm not sure what bothers me more about this book--the deeply flawed ethnographic research or the profoundly offensive fetishizing of the subjects by the author. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
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