false 812071 3 <div><div><i>The Dead Travel Fast</i> is about vampires, death, chickens, fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and germs&#8230; but mostly it&#8217;s about vampires.</div><div><br>The undead are everywhere. They&#8217;re not just in movies and books, but in commercials, fetish clubs, and even in your breakfast cereal. If you look, you&#8217;ll discover that bloodsuckers have gone from guest spots in rural folk tales to becoming some of the most recognizable bad guys in the modern world. Eric Nuzum wanted to find out why and how this happened. And he found the answer in Goth clubs, darkened parks, haunted houses, and&#8230; chain restaurants. <br></div><div> </div><div>Nuzum was willing to do whatever it took to better understand the vampire phenomenon. He traveled across Transylvania on a tour hosted by Butch Patrick (a.k.a. Eddie Munster), sat through Las Vegas&#8217; only topless vampire revue, hung out with assorted shady characters, and spent hours in a coffin. He even drank his own blood --just one more step in his quest to understand the weird, offbeat world of vampires and the people who love them. <br><i></i></div><div><i>The Dead Travel Fast </i>is the hilarious result of this bloody, gory, and often foolhardy journey. With his unmatched firsthand experience, Eric Nuzum delivers a far-reaching look at vampires in pop culture, from Bram to Bela to Buffy, and at what vampires and vampirism have come to mean to us today. <br></div><div> </div><div>And the blood? Let&#8217;s just say it doesn&#8217;t go with eggs.</div></div> 798008 18 9 2007 The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula total:177|5:27|4:79|3:56|2:12|1:3| 177 646 348 63 4 2 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 10:53:19 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 27 09:33:02 -0800 2008
Tons of s...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 19:56:34 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 03:02:34 -0800 2007 3 1 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 14 19:49:48 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 15 13:33:25 -0700 2008
as a throw-yourself-into-vampire-culture-memoir, i really enjoyed it. the author is hilarious.

however, i didn't buy the book for a memoir. i was hoping to engage my strange love for vampires and increase my useless knowledge of said interest. on that level...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 19:09:59 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 07:18:14 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 23:22:05 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 12:01:18 -0800 2007 Dracula and its supposed inspiration, Vlad Tepes.
I think the author got pretty sick of all things vampire before h...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 16:31:02 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 15:38:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 27 05:52:40 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 15:21:09 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 05:52:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 10:22:28 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 10:26:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 05:03:23 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 05:22:36 -0700 2007
I interviewed the author for Washingtonian.]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 17 05:41:46 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 05:31:21 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 05:41:06 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 10:01:32 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 21:12:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 04 11:23:26 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 09:01:03 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:50:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:00:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 08:52:17 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 11:59:20 -0700 2009
It's fitting that there is a Chuck Klosterman endorsement for the book, because it reads very much like...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 17:14:38 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 10:02:13 -0700 2008 1 'Denn die Todten reiten schnell' Leonora: 1796 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834)

I hope it doesn't sound too pretentious to say that, when it comes to vampires, Eric Nuzum knows his stuff. (Because the obvious, conceited corollary to that implies that I, also, know my stuff. I know,...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 02:42:07 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 17:39:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 07 03:38:30 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 25 22:30:19 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 03:38:30 -0800 2009
I liked the book a lot, though I did not feel it was very in depth at all-- my favorite bits (of course) were when the author went tracking down Vlad Dracula and we...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 14 20:56:32 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 16 15:35:19 -0800 2009 1
i think my biggest issue with the book was that it wasn't quite as informative as i was looking for. i learn...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 11:17:43 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 09:28:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 25 17:01:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 15:28:07 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:01:00 -0700 2009 more...]]>