Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2010 Novel by Seth Grahame-Smith)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2010 Novel by Seth Grahame-Smith) This book is better than you’d think, and maybe that’s the problem. If the forecasts of the end of paper-based publishing as we know, and the similar forecasts of end of the Novel as an important art form, prove correct, what will we be left with? Well, one thing I note when I go into a bookstore is that though maybe I can’t find I personally want any more, there’s an ever-growing abundance of at least one product. The product is remarkably adaptable to our all-too-instantaneous culture and so deeply committed to vacillating fashions that though these books are individually ephemeral, they are collectively eternal. I refer to Novelty Books. Each is quickly produced, and just as quickly forgotten, yet the space they occupy in the store is never empty, and if you return to that space over and over again, you will see that our impulsive and unconsidered consumption of fac...