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| Value for Money | 3/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 2/10 |
Full review by
Dreadlocksmile
on 28th Jul 2004
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Good Points: I suppose you can pick it up for cheap around the place these days, so not much money is wasted if you do purchase it.
Bad Points: Where can I start? Poor research, poorly written and no conclusions were really made in the end. Just a really bad study on a potentially interesting and adventurous subject matter.
General comments: Katherine Ramsland, Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today - The author Katherine Ramsland examines the dark subculture of real life vampires in this potentially very adventurous and unique study. Unfortunately she seems to fall short of creating a gripping and informative book and instead jumps from one almost trivial and over-hyped piece of subject matter to the next. The book skirts around the principles of this dark community, with no sense of direction and little purpose. The book ends disappointingly, with many questions hanging in the misty air of the author's own confusion. She seems adamant to repeatedly refer to the world of role-playing, even though this is excruciatingly dull to anyone who is not interested in this scene. A book that from first glance looks to offer a truly informative response to this shadowy underworld, but instead, monotonously bounces from one dull and unimportant situation to the next. But what the hell, that's only my opinion!
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