User blog comment:Techne/My Love for Percy, or, Why a Nearly 20-year-old Loves PJO, Yet Hates Twilight/@comment-2055812-20100629135131

@Zaffie: That sounds interesting. Good luck with that!

Twilight is really popular in Finland as well, if the fact that there seems to be no other fantasy books in book stores - books without vampires that is. And the fact that now vampires are in big time: just look at all the TV shows with blood-suckers in them! There's True Blood (never watched), Moonlight (never watched) and countless of others (that I haven't watched). It seems like everyone is writing about them as well. I, too, had a vampire story that I was working with (I actually started it before Twilight) but now I've abandoned the whole idea.

About that girl... Uh, that is really freaky. A 7-year-old has read Twilight?! But points for her for calling Edward an animal! Though I doubt that's what she meant...

Actually, some of the 'real* vampires *were* undead humans. Taken from Wikipedia: "In most cases, vampires are revenants (revenant meaning visible ghost or animated corpse) of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire". Vampire stories can be found in many different cultures and I find it fascinating how they can be so different and so similar at the same time. In one culture, there was a vampiric creature that was a floating head that drank the blood of the living! Too bad I can't remember where that originated from. But the most important thing is, none of the vampires sparkled.