The HungerEternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death to hand in hand. |
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Nutzerbericht - Nakeeya - LibraryThingI prefer the film adaptation, if mainly for the actors. Either way this twist on the vampire myth is interesting at times but unfortunately was a book that ticked me off so much all I remember was ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - ToddSherman - LibraryThing“His stomach twisted until it felt as if it were ripping out of its body and he clamped his fists to his eyes, willing with all his strength that the vision of death before him, of deliverance into ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
Chapter 8 | 210 |
Chapter 9 | 235 |
Chapter 10 | 260 |
Chapter 11 | 288 |
Chapter 12 | 312 |
EPILOGUE | 356 |
The Last Vampire | 359 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alice appeared arms beautiful began Blaylock blood body breath called closed cold coming dark dead death deep don’t door dream eyes face fear feel feet felt fingers floor forced girl give going hands happened hard head hear heard heart hope human hunger Hutch John keep kill kind kissed knew laughed leave light lips living lock looked lost matter mind minutes Miriam mouth moved never night once opened passed past perhaps Phyllis pulled realized remained remembered Sarah screamed seemed seen sense side silence skin Sleep smell smiled soon sound stand step stood stopped street sure thing thought told took touch trying turned voice waiting walked wall wanted watched whole window woman
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 139 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter ; What's to come is still unsure : In delay there lies no plenty ; Then come...
Seite 149 - Let each man bow the head in sign of acquiescence And now, if you will be true to this, your oath, may prosperity and good repute be ever yours; the opposite, if you shall prove yourselves forsworn.
Seite 330 - Call a cop, lady. You nearly got yourself run over. Now get outa here." "Somebody's about to die. I'ma doctor." The driver rolled his eyes. "OK," he said, "where to?" mask some of the smells within the cab. She listened as the driver reassured his passenger that all was well, the detour wouldn't take long. Many drivers would have refused to budge, she knew that. But she had gotten lucky. This guy had a heart. As soon as the house appeared Sarah leaped from the cab, raced up the steps and began hammering...
Seite 336 - He could see from here the brown scuff marks his shoes had left on the wall. languid, but he had the impression that she was far from it. The eyes hardly blinked. A fly came in the window, buzzing energetically. Tom watched it spiral up to the ceiling. For a moment he was stunned. He had not noticed that the ceiling was magnificently painted to resemble a blue, cloudflecked sky. Clouds billowed and larks soared in that magical, ineffably romantic air. The fly, crawling across the painting birds and...
Seite 335 - Miriam seemed aware of his feelings, as if the act downstairs had been little more than a formality. "Sarah," she said, "Please let me in. I have a surprise for you." She turned to Tom. "I've got a key, but I hate to open a door somebody else has locked.
Seite 163 - Sarah had despaired of ever really being loved. She wanted Tom, enjoyed him sexually, but the old hollowness asserted itself, the reality once again emerging. Miriam could work in the forest of Sarah's emotions. She knew well her role in this age: the bringer of truth.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature Leonard G. Heldreth,Mary Pharr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature Carol A. Senf,Carol E. Senf Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1988 |
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Hunger |
| Autor/in | Whitley Strieber |
| Verlag | Simon and Schuster, 2001 |
| ISBN | 074343644X, 9780743436441 |
| Länge | 384 Seiten |
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