The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

I know what you'll say: "Oh hell no, another vampire book". Well... Yeah. But, this book does not resemble Twilight. You don't have shiny vampires that sparkle and you also do not have a teenage-romance novel. If you remember "Interview with the Vampire" you know what I am talking about. This is better writing than any of today's vampire books.

The Vampire Lestat has been on my reading list for a few years and I kept setting it aside because it felt like a long read. Actually it took me about 5 days to finish this book, and I had been on vacation with plenty of time for books. I am a fast reader and this book needed my entire attention to understand some parts. Overall it is a nice experience which leaves you wanting for more.

Ok, so in this book vampires are not afraid of crosses but they cannot walk in the light. You get beautiful descriptions of different eras and different places. You get hetero sex, you get incest and you get gay sex. To each his own, I guess. You get poverty and enormous wealth. You get a new version on how vampires came to be. You get lots of fights and plenty of violence. You get sensual love and complicated relationships. You get different views on religion etc. You get a well made cocktail of everything your heart desires. 

Children of the night, gather and suck the blood of mortals. Just kidding, but the book was pretty good. Even though it was quite long, it left me satisfied. I will have to find a chronological order of the series and maybe I will read another vampire book.

Decoding Love by Andrew Trees

This is one of the most boring books I had ever read. I simply could not bring myself to finishing it. I guess he brings some viable arguments about sexual attraction and relationships. To be honest, if you've dated more than 10 people in your life and had sex with half of them, you can definitely skip this book. Simply because it doesn't bring anything more than just some facts you might or might not know, but you do them by instinct.

He tries to be funny at times, but it just doesn't hit the spot. The advice done like this " if you are a squeamish woman skip the next chapter" can rub people the wrong way. Maybe men like having sex more than women, but from this statement and calling us "sexual predators" it goes a very long way. I don't get offended easily and I guess he makes some valid points when he writes about the sociological experiments, but I wouldn't take any of his advice into consideration.

If you want to find out a bit about the differences between the 2 sexes, read the book. But keep in mind that it is mostly about heterosexual people (or I didn't get to the good part) and I haven't found anything that might suggest a path towards more interesting relationships like (swingers, gays, bisexuals, lesbians, transgender, fetishes, orgies, BDSM, role play etc.). 

This book just feels like watching old, boring, straight, softcore porn: missionary position, under the covers with lights dimmed, but there is no music in the background and they don't even show a boob or some ass. I wish at least he had some kink, or something interesting to hook me up with, or something to at least to make me relate to it and want to read it 'till the end.