J-Horror

A Wild Sheep Chase was quite a weird read.  It just ended up being a bit weird, especially the ear-fetish
thing, though it did make me laugh a bit.  I noticed by reading through this book though, as well as watching the movie of Kwaidan, that j-horror really likes to draw out the story somewhat.  Nothing necessarily happens that's creepy or gory in any sense until the end.  It's all about the psychological horror that leads up to the climax and ending that makes j-horror what it is.  It's definitely different than what American horror is like, so it makes for an interesting viewing/reading experience.

Interview with a Vampire

An Interview with a Vampire was quite a story with a good amount of different relationships and I think that was one of its more interesting parts.  I've never been adverse to vampires, I quite like them, so reading this type of story was nice. I really was intrigued by the main characters, especially Lestat.  He really tried to twist Louis into what he wanted in a way, trying to manipulate him, and at the same time, Louis resisting those thoughts. I liked the relationship that was created between the two of them.  I felt that they had chemistry between them.  There was also Claudia, who added another twist to the relationship.  It was somewhat a weird twisted love in my mind, since Louis and Claudia seemed like father/daughter as well as lovers.

The discussion in class was interesting to me, too.  It seemed that most of the girls had something to say about this book, and the guys didn't.  I heard a lot of Twilight and its content being tossed around as kind of the reason the guys didn't seem to like this book.  Though, I didn't think this book was really in the same realm as Twilight. This led me to think about how some believe that the vampire genre equals Twilight in this day and age, which I don't think it does.  Regardless, to each his own, not everyone has to like vampires.

Monster Island

I never was a particular fan of zombies, but this story held my interest anyways.  I liked the pacing within the book and how situations of the characters were represented.  An example would how it would portray Gary's state of mind and how he interacted with the other zombies, as well as his own particular state of being. Dekalb's situation is interesting in a sense that he's taken prisoner by a Somalian woman leader and is forced into going to zombie-ridden New York to get them medicine/drugs.  I liked the fact that all the countries excluding the 3rd world ones were infected and overridden with zombies.  It gave it a nice change of setting, instead of having started in familiar territory (like New York).

I enjoyed the writing style of the book as well, having short chapters with a good amount of detail, but nothing overly flowery in terms of descriptions.  So, the story was a pretty clean read that was written with some thought and maturity.