Vampire$

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Summary: I hunt Vampires for a living......
Review: I picked up this book because of the qoute at the start. This book was amazing from start to end I could not put it down. If you are looking for something different in a vampire novel this is it. Steakley's characters are powerful and moving, and the vampires themseleves are down right cruel. If you buy any vampire novel this is the one to buy.

This novel tells the story from the hunters view. If you were faced with a real Vampire who would you call... Vampire$!

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Summary: Way better than the movie.
Review: First off, how can you not like a vampire novel with the name of the author is Steakly. *LOL*. You know it's going to be a good read.

Before I get started, I just wanted to say how bad the movie to this book is. If you've seen the movie, and not sure if you want to read the book, I urge you to forget the horrid movie, and sit back and enjoy VAMPIRE$.

Meet Jack Crow. Crow has a foul mouth, quick temper, liked his wiskey, and is a vampire hunter. He hunts vampires for money, a lot of it. The reader will accompany Crow on a few slayings. You'll meet his team and get to know the characters, and their background. I really liked the char. Cat, what a hoot. He's adds a lot to this book. What impressed me the most was they last slaying that the reader will read about. The Team has to come up aganist a master vampire...at night. Why you ask? Read the book and find out.

Steakly has an amazing writing style. Through interesting plot twists, and fasntastic char the reader will be drawn in and will be fighting to put the book down. Steakly's that good.

I highly suggest this book if you like vampire books, horror books, or likes to read a well crafted story by a talented author. If you start this book, you won't be sorry.

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Summary: Give the Steak to These Awful "Vampire$"
Review: John Steakley's "Vampire$" falls into the category of "great concept--lousy execution." That Steakley is not a terribly creative writer is immediately apparent to anyone who has read his sci-fi epic "Armor." Though that novel is pretty good, one has to question why, other than abject laziness, would he use the same two names (Jack Crow and Felix) who were the heros of the previous book? The first scene of "Vampire$" starts out scary, but decends into gratuitous violence. From there, the novel stalls, spending over a hundred pages on uneffective character deveolpment. The mood is all wrong. If vampires WERE real and stalking the earth, one would think that governments would have more urgency about destroying them and that those who do the job would be a little more organized. I also found the religous aspect of the story baffling. Quite frankly, the whole novel lost comprehension for me well before the halfway mark. I would love to see it rewritten by someone who is able to give its great concept true justice.

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Summary: Another great book for John Steakly
Review: I read Vampire$ a few months before the movie arrived in theaters and I love it. This book has been probably the best book I read that year. Then I went to see the movie, it's good, but if you have read the book, do yourself a favor, don't see the movie. If you've seen the movie you'll notice that it's a good movie, but a bad adaptation of a great novel.

Vampire$ is something different, when you read this novel, you need to forget about other Vampire classic novels (like I am Legend, Interview with the Vampire, etc), this is totally different and it will blow your mind away. I'll love the way Steakly introduce the characters, specially the mysterious Felix, which turn to be the main character of the novel, not Jack Crow (like the movie). The way John introduces the characters, the way he developed them, amazing.

If you like a good Vampire, action, intriguing novel, Vampire$ is your choice. When you read Vampire$ (if you've read John Steakly's Armor), you'll say "What a coincidence, in both of his novels, the main characters are the same, Jack Crow and Felix". But, most intriguing is that in both novels Felix is this mysterious guy that you want to know more about him.

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Summary: Vampire$ makes the money!
Review: Now this is what I call a book! Non-stop action is the appeal of the novel Vampire$ and that is what you get. The blood flies in this tale of Vampire$ Inc. and the hunters that run it. Jack Crow is the lead vampire hunter in a story about the tightly wound group he leads. You just can't take your eyes away from the inticing (how the heck do you spell that!) writing by John Steakley. The ending will amaze anyone. One of the best buys I have ever had!

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Summary: Stick with the movie
Review: After reading the glowing reviews of the book, I ran right out and got it. Well, it is nothing like the movie, and thank God that John Carpenter got a hold of this and made it into something entertaining. The book gets boring quick, unless you like long passages about how 'lovely' a girl is, and unfinished sentences about monsters. The book actually had less atmoshpere than the movie, if that's possible. And the movie definitely has a better storyline and ending. Rent John Carpenter's Vampires again, for all of the above, and the acting, scenery, and music.The movie is wonderful.

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Summary: VAMPIRE$
Review: After reading ARMOR, VAMPIRE$ is a MUST READ!! J.Steakley Really puts a twist on SF & Horror in both books.--- ARMOR should be made into a Major movie.it Blew me away!!! VAMPIRE$ is a mixed story of Hunters, Killers,Drunks,and all out Insane people-live & dead. Jack. well... ---JC's VAMPIRES is Good, but not Nearlly by the BOOK. THANKS.

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Summary: Buy it--You'll like it!
Review: Best vampire book I've ever read. Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" is #2. The characters are a kick, and you'll laugh and feel for what they're going through. The language and situations seem "true to life," if one can say such a thing about "vampire" novels. And "John Carpenter's Vampires" is just that--a movie "very" loosely based on Steakley's book. Can't wait 'til they do it right the next time. Anyway, have fun with this book. You can't go wrong.

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Summary: Vampire$, Inc.
Review: This is one hell of a book. It's a heroic story about good vs. evil, but the good guys are human, and don't want to be there. They're big manly heroes, but very human. That's what sets this book apart from many Vampire books. The heroes aren't unstoppable forces for truth and good, they're people doing what they do best, and doing what they must do. The Vampires are ungodly (pun not intended), and the methods needed to slay them, extreme. The methods needed to slay the Vampires are part of the fun of the book, which makes this a must buy for all fans of vampire hunting fiction. Plus it is riddled with absolutely hysterical humor, and an intense story. This book does it all, action, emotion, humor, story.

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Summary: Unfulfilled Potential
Review: The best thing about this book is the premise - a crew of hard drinking, hard working, professional vampire killers hire themselves out, like Pied Pipers, to towns troubled by some awfully nasty vampires. While this premise may not be the most original and demands some significant leaps in logic, it has the potential of being the basis of a good, no nonsense, blood and guts, good versus evil vampire story - in other words, a real fun read. There are several action scenes in the book that almost live up that that potential. Unfortunately, the rest of the book, which is most of it, is padding. The characters are two-dimensional and cliched and their motivations unexplained or unconvincing. None of the characters is fleshed out enough to cause the reader to care about them.