Compared with other novels we read this semester, the characteristics that the vampires displayed in 'Salem's Lot were stereotypical. The vampires were very typical in the sense that they only came out at night, they slept in coffins, their eyes were red, skin was pale, they hated crucifixes and garlic, and they could live for a long time. I was a little disappointed about this aspect of Stephen King's novel.
I really wish he would have spent more time on the relationships between the vampires and the humans instead of spending so much time building up the suspense. It seemed like Stephen King would spend 5o pages building up the suspense to a theme and then when it happened, it only took up one page. Although Stephen King did have a lot of really good passages that could be taken out and torn apart to make you think deeper about broader ideas, I was really looking to be a little more entertained. I just really wish Stephen King would have looked more at the life of the vampires and not just the victims. He hardly spent any time looking at how Barlow lived and his thoughts. He focused mainly on the fear that resided in the victims and just added in the stereotypical vampire characteristics.
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