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This is literally the best and most plausible vampire series ever.

While the story here is mildly interesting, the dialogue is embarrassingly plain jane and even, dare I say, cornfed.

'I’ve always hated The Crucible. It’s an interminable, joyless affair, and the most interesting idea in the play—that witchcraft may be afoot in Salem—is reduced to a metaphor for McCarthyism.' He just described why I hated The Crucible in a way I never could.

'"If anything, human IQ is a sexual inhibitor." It was hard to muster sympathy for Ruth, mother of Tupperware. But Kotex was right about appearance. Thinking back over the females I had inseminated, I couldn't recall anything about their looks, except for the antenna that Legs had lost to a splinter and Ivory's stump. I looked at Kotex. Did she have a higher epicranium than Rosa? Bigger palps than Julia?'

"She gave great pheromone," I said. "The best." "Oh?" said Kotex. "Some of the best," said Bismarck. "But that's in the past."

'Between the years of 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge communists exchanged our traditional Cambodian way of life for a vast, brutal experiment in communism. To keep the Khmer Rouge from killing me, I had to pretend I was not a doctor.' God damn communism to the hell that conceived it.

Thisis the saddest thing Strand's ever written. I know I'm going to hate the ending.