by Suzy McKee Charnas
Recommended by Guillermo del Toro
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Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in ...
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Guillermo del Toro
“BOOK OF THE DAY: All vampire books I listed before are nonfiction. May I now suggest THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY by Suzy McKee Charnas Flawless”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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