Reviews for The Vampire Lectures

The average rating for The Vampire Lectures based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-03 00:00:00 Charles Hernandez DNF - I picked up this collection by a lit professor about vampires in the media (books & film), hoping to read some interesting if not actually insightful essays. Unfortunately, the essays are almost unreadable to anyone outside of academe, full of near impenetrable jargon and meaningless puns (oh...the humanity). Even if you are a lit major and used to parsing sentences like "Carl-Theodor Dreyer's film Vampyr is almost impossible to follow, but its non-followability has everything to do with its self-representation as medium, which goes comparison hopping around the other visual media of representation (like painting)" [a mild example], I couldn't recommend this. [Normally, I give DNFs one star but in this case I was able to glean a few interesting ideas amidst all the byzantine verbiage and so I didn't wholly waste my time.]

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-12 00:00:00 Corey Strong Any kind of point that could be of value is drowned in smug puns. I many times found myself rereading sections over and over not because the ideas were complex but because the wording was convoluted in a way you get the impression the author is extremely satisfied with. Simplistic explanations of vampirism (seriously, not EVERYTHING is Oedipal) that are made almost impossible to decode. Sorry for the irrational anger at this book. I'm probably just frustrated over unrealized lust for my dad.