Well, since HBO started "True Blood", I became hooked on Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Murder Mysteries". This has led to me reading quite a few other Vampire books (shout out to Charlie Huston's books about a burnout vampire PI in Manhattan, among others.)
Well, shortly before a vacation, I was in a bookstore, looking for my guilty pleasure, and the vampire books were on a table with zombie books. So, now I'm reading about various zombie apocalypses (should this be apocolypsi?) Interestingly enough, having been a particularly morbid teenager during the Reagan presidency, I already had a certain fascination with survival-ism. Did you know that people are selling survival condos in former Titan missile bases? They are, and I am jealous that I never thought of that. There is a former base about 90 minutes from here, and it was for sale on eBay. But that's another post. Back to zombies. There was an interesting point that said that zombie lit sells VERY well in the US- because we, as a people, like to believe that determination and skills allow us to overcome any obstacle. Even the undead hoards.
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