re: Anybody else hate the zombie craze going on with movies and tv now?

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I used to piss off my old college room mate when I would suggest that all of the Anne Rice vampire books were just thinly veiled homoerotic porn books.

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Well, you weren't wrong I don't think. Rice was pretty obsessed with porn literature. I'm pretty sure she wrote some actual porn type stuff under a different pen-name (and based them off of fairy tale characters at that)

I've always thought that Rice's best writing were the parts of her books when the characters were human - before turning into vampires or being revealed as witches, etc. I think she had the talent to make it as a mainstream author. But can't really fault her for making the big $$.

On Zombies, I'd bet it appeals to some part of our subconscious fear of nature from way back - maybe when we weren't the only "human" species or something like that. Kind of like all the dragon stuff must reflect some subconscious fear out of the past.