O Brave New World...

Yeah. Edward doesn't do it for me, at all. And I like the blood-sex-death thing, too, much hotter than Mormon sublimated passion and hand-holding. Oh -- but a friend just loaned me three vampire mysteries set in the South, by one Charlaine Harris. I haven't started them yet -- apparently there are at least eight, so far. And she told me that HBO is going to make a series based on them, done by the same people who did Six Feet Under. I don't have cable, but... that's pretty damn tempting.