About this title: In Streiber's third novel centered on the eternally elegant figure of Miriam Blaylock, Paul Ward (introduced in the previous volume, THE LAST VAMPIRE) and his team of vampire hunters go head to head with Lilith, possibly the first and certainly the most powerful vampire on the planet.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 10/2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Publisher: ATria Date of Publication: 2002 Binding: Hard Cover Edition: First Edition Condition: Near Fine/Very Good, Lt Edge Wear Description: 074345152x. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books, Many
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear. Remainder mark......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.... read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New book, light shelf wear to book & jacket, small black remainder mark on top, price sticker on front of jacket. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Dust Jacket is missing, there is tape on front and back cover. Book is in really good condition. Is x-lib. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: c2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0-7434-5152-X. A nice clean, solid copy, in an attractive dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: New in New jacket. Pristine hardcover in new dustjacket(not price-clipped) no wear, remainder mark, very reliable shipper(shelf#18) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743451529ISBN:074345152X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Remainder mark on lower edge, bump to lower spine, nice dust jacket with light scuffing and edge wear. read more
"I picked this one up the other day, and I really tried to enjoy it. Fifty pages in, I put it down, and I just can't bring myself to pick it back up. It's just not worth it for me, and life is too short to read books you're not enjoying. Now, I do like to read fluff literature every once in a while. The problem with this one is that the author does not know that he is writing a fluff novel, which makes it no fun. Though this book is not for me, I can see that it might be fun for someone else, so give it a chance if you'd like."
#1 The Hunger & #2 The Last Vampire: I enjoyed 1 & 2 more than #3. Tho written in the '80's (?), The Hunger is a terrific vampire book! Very different, a darker look at the vampire life."
"You could never play this movie the way the book is written - the viewing public has seen too much of this sort of cheap-shot denouement in the likes of Men in Black and Bobby Ewing's series-long shower. You'd have to start the movie WITH the denouement. To fully sate this in a modern cinema-going audience jaded by year after year of blockbuster narrative, the movie of LILITH'S DREAM would have to rip its own narrative balls out in this first scene in that legendary Hall of Mirrors.
Lilith's Dream Plays Like a Straight Vampire Book A simple sequel from the original HUNGER and its follow-up THE LAST VAMPIRE, this is nearly the book I've always wanted Strieber to tell. The book about the past. The book about the technology. The book about the history of the vampires and their human Keepers. I have always wanted Strieber to take us back in time to a place where the vampires were first born, first arrived, first started manipulating the human gene line. I wanted to be romanced by the sexual regalia of a vampire's proximity. I wanted to fall in love with some alien creature the way cavemen of that long-ago meeting must have felt when faced with such beauty-exuding beasts that tore to the very soul of humanity. Supernatural creatures we would willingly give our lives to. Sacrifice our children. Release our own blood for them.
Such was the ancient power of the vampire.
When I wrote the short story RED, RED WINE with Alex Severin, I knew the depiction of our vampires with retractable ratchet-jointed bones and a secondary vagina ringed with hypodermic needles for feeding on cocks was spot on. And this book affirms my belief in that dreamlike part of the vampire legend.
These creatures can do super human things that are BEYOND the realm of human understanding. They are pure narrative. The are spell-binding horror creatures that look like your darkest fantasies. They are pure allure. They are the sound of blood rushing through a human heart, powered by a heart bathing in aeons of vampire love juice.
Strieber is a true sensualist. I did wonder about him when I was reading THE LAST VAMPIRE. I wondered if he'd reverted to some sort of historical chronicler, a shadow of the great writer of UNHOLY FIRE which literally tore my stomach out, such was its emotional power. And he has a stunning return to form here in LILITH'S DREAM. Never has Strieber unleashed such sensual prose upon the reader, never has he been so enjoyable, so decadent.
She laid her lips on his neck. He muttered something - a prayer, she supposed, to his silent god. When her tongue penetrated the skin, he made a small, internal sound of surprise. She felt intake of breath, then the beginnings of speech in his throat. She clenched the powerful muscle that encased her stomach, doing it so tightly that a bit of digestive fluid issued from her nose and ran busily down her jaw, hot and swift. Then the muscle unwound, opening her gut with hydraulic smoothness, the suction swooping his blood from his veins. The poetess Ashtar had called it "that movement beneath all others."He made a long, babbling utterance of mixed confusion and fear, high with question, higher with complaint. Then his tongue began sputtering in his mouth, and his heels drummed the sodden bed. A fly rushed about her lips, frantically seeking the blood that bubbled out.
Ah, nice. An edible little man.
The movie of LILITH'S DREAM would feel like you'd just dropped the tastiest, most ungracious hit of acid EVER. You cannot, simply can not start the movie by telling the viewer that Myriam Blaylock, mother of Ian Ward with her vampire-hunter lover Paul Ward, is dead. Killed by Ward's gun. You cannot show them that Myriam Blaylock's female lover Sarah is also dead at the hands of Ward. You cannot show Lilith like a corpse rising from an Egyptian cave like a starved rat stinking of rot. You cannot show her as a ragged mess stowed away in a fishing boat on its way to New York.
Cut to the Hall of Mirrors, really the Hall of Dreams. See Lilith and her eternal soul mate rewriting history again and again in their wicked little game of love.
Cut to the great monuments of New York growing out of an Edwardian cesspit - show how humans have grown in status and stature.
Cut to a glowing vampire rising into a blood infused ecstasy."
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