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Stainless: A Modern Romance
by
Todd Grimson (Goodreads Author)
Resurrecting a horrifying and romantic narrative that broke fresh ground for its genre, this newly rereleased novel sets a vampire story in contemporary Los Angeles—the pleasure dome of late 1990s sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll culture. Unlike the vampires that came before her, Justine does not shun crosses, she watches horror movies on television, and she sets upon her pre...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
January 18th 2012
by Schaffner Press, Inc.
(first published February 21st 1996)
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Hea y'all Anne here with my second review for Todd Grimson. Stainless a modern romance with a gothic old school style that brings back fond memories of Vampires that turn to dust and rip humans to shreds when hungry. Oh the good old days, and Todd takes you right back there and shows you what it would really be like to love an immortal who has lived centuries. The characters are well built with detailed pasts that lend to their position in current living arrangements. I really love this book bec...more
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Stainless by Todd Grimson has the subtitle "A Modern Romance." I'm not sure I'd call it a romance. I would definitely call it a tale of obsessions. Both obsessive love and obsessive hate played a role in this story. And compulsion. I certainly felt compelled to finish once I'd started.
Human beings have found a surprising number of addictive substances to cure their addictions. Morphine was once thought to cure alcoholism. It was a case where...more
Stainless by Todd Grimson has the subtitle "A Modern Romance." I'm not sure I'd call it a romance. I would definitely call it a tale of obsessions. Both obsessive love and obsessive hate played a role in this story. And compulsion. I certainly felt compelled to finish once I'd started.
Human beings have found a surprising number of addictive substances to cure their addictions. Morphine was once thought to cure alcoholism. It was a case where...more
Vampires are hard pressed to be new and exciting. Where Dracula is outdated, Stainless is cutting edge. Where Todd Grimson is subtle and poetic, Anne Rice would be overtly heavy handed. Where this book shines, so would characters from Poppy Z Brite’s “Exquisite Corpse”. This book is not for all readers, it is dark. sexual (often disturbingly), and not handed to readers on a platter.
This book is not so much a Vampire novel as it is a highly readable analysis of human tragedy. Originally published...more
This book is not so much a Vampire novel as it is a highly readable analysis of human tragedy. Originally published...more
This is the second book I have read by Todd and I loved this one even more than the first. He writes horror Paranormal that reminds me of classic gothic horror writers.
Justine is a vampire who has memory problems but has moments when she can remember her past. She is almost child like at times but only adds to her character. Keith is a down on his luck guitarist with a troubled past. But they manage to come together and fall in love.
But what they don’t know is somebody from Justine’s past is com...more
Justine is a vampire who has memory problems but has moments when she can remember her past. She is almost child like at times but only adds to her character. Keith is a down on his luck guitarist with a troubled past. But they manage to come together and fall in love.
But what they don’t know is somebody from Justine’s past is com...more
Stainless: A Modern Romance by Todd Grimson is a vampire book.
Keith was a musician until his hands were ruined. Now, he serves as a sort of caretaker to Justine, a vampire. Together, Keith and Justine wonder about her existence as a vampire, why she is the way that she is, and the strange emotional connection that they share. Also in the mix are a variety of other characters, including Keith's doctor, an author who wants to include Keith in a book, and another vampire who has a history with Just...more
Keith was a musician until his hands were ruined. Now, he serves as a sort of caretaker to Justine, a vampire. Together, Keith and Justine wonder about her existence as a vampire, why she is the way that she is, and the strange emotional connection that they share. Also in the mix are a variety of other characters, including Keith's doctor, an author who wants to include Keith in a book, and another vampire who has a history with Just...more
This is the second book I have read by Todd and I loved this one even more than the first. He writes horror Paranormal that reminds me of classic gothic horror writers.
Justine is a vampire who has memory problems but has moments when she can remember her past. She is almost child like at times but only adds to her character. Keith is a down on his luck guitarist with a troubled past. But they manage to come together and fall in love.
But what they don’t know is somebody from Justine’s past is com...more
Justine is a vampire who has memory problems but has moments when she can remember her past. She is almost child like at times but only adds to her character. Keith is a down on his luck guitarist with a troubled past. But they manage to come together and fall in love.
But what they don’t know is somebody from Justine’s past is com...more
I did not expect a small-press local author vampire book to be well written. Not a big fan of serial-killer or gore content, I was still moved by Grimson's artful writing. A writer like this loves stories, and is good to their readers, despite the rough subject matter. Grimson's approach to vampires couldn't be described as fresh, but his vamps are not tired either. I liked the very LA setting- the characters were part of their place without Grimson needing to tell us all about every detail.
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Oct 31, 2011
Aggie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Fans of vampire fiction and goth rock
Recommended to Aggie by:
No one
This is the third time I read this book and I still like it, despite the fact that most of the characters are miserable people. It is dark, gritty, and Justine's enemy is truly ruthless and demented. I like Keith and Justine even though I knew they were doomed from the get go.
A cult classic from the mid-90s gets a reprint. Grimson's bleak, effective vampire romance features some ugly characters doing very ugly things, but excellent writing helps offset the dreariness.
I've decided, in order to give a truer picture of my reading tastes and history, to keep this shelf for books I definitely have no intention of returning to and finishing. This one qualifies eminently! It was recommended to me several years ago by an Internet pen pal of mine at the time, apparently because he knew I'd written a vampire novella. (There's NO similarity between the two works!) After about two chapters, I had my fill of foul language, unlikeable characters, and moral nihilism.
Gave up after 32 pages. Just not holding my attention.
May 15, 2013
Srdaine
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Todd Grimson was born in 1952 in Seattle and moved to Portland, Oregon at an early age. At the age of 22, having gone through all kinds of dead-end employment, Grimson took a civil service exam and ended up working at the VA Hospital in its surgical intensive care unit, which he found highly educational. He went on to work nightshift in the emergency room at Emanuel Hospital, where most local vict...more
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