"Halfway through Guillermo Del Toro's "The Strain"" Topic

And these are not your mother's vampires! Holy Jeebus!

I'm not giving away anything by saying that in the first few pages you hear the story of a kind Romanian noble youth named Sardu who had gigantism and walked with a cane. His father takes him hunting wolves with some others, but when none return, they are all thought dead. Months later the youth returns at night, alone, and never again comes out during the day. But the children say you can hear him walking the streets at night, his cane making a pick…pick…pick noise as he walks. Children who stay out late and don't go to bed may become victims of Sardu, the eight foot tall monster.

pick…pick…pick

Sounds interesting. Is it good so far?

Yeah, it starts more like a techno-thriller, moves to a medical thriller, then to splatter horror, with some Weird War II thrown in for good measure.

The zombie apocalypse has nothing on the vampire apocalypse.

Ive just finished this book, which is part of a trilogy,it is fantastic,not very often recently i can say a book does actually scare me! but this one does, the last part is well certainly making for a cracking book 2.

Very well recommended

Its okay, but the way you get Vampirism falls down when you look at the physiology of it. Cant have superstrength or superspeed without lots and lots of oxygen. Unfortunetely the way the vampires get oxygen in the book, would leave them with enough energy to basically sit on the sofa all day asleep. Sofa bum vampires, not scary at all. They would have to feed almost all the time just to stay active.

Considering the supernatural abilities of your traditional vampire, the physiology of it falls firmly into willing suspension of disbelief.

I finished it during lunch today. Lots of vamp slaying and cool anti-vamp weapons in the second half. Still tons of things to be resolved. I look forward to the next books.

So, who's going to make not-Strain vamps with 4-6' stingers coming out of their mouthes?

D@MN! Sounds good.

How long has it been out? Is it in paperback?

It's new. My wife got it for me, breaking my paperback only rule.

In the UK the hardback is only £7.01 GBP from Amazon while the paperback is twice the price. Who knows why.
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