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Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?

10 best books like Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? (Allyson Beatrice): Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems, 13 Drops of Blood, Cheek by Jowl, Fan Cultures, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, Nurse! Nurse!: A Student Nurse's Story, The Complete Slayer: An unoffical and unauthorised guide to every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How to Land an A330 Airbus and Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man., Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems
AuthorJames B. South
ISBN0470603011
A look at the philosophical underpinnings of the hit TV show, "Mad Men"With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pencil skirts, Mad Men is unquestionably one of the most stylish, sexy, and irresistible shows on television. But the series becomes even more absorbing...
13 Drops of Blood
AuthorJames Roy Daley
13 Drops Of Blood is the first collection from one of the more exciting new voices in horror, James Roy Daley. A man of many disciplines (novelist, editor, musician), this book features tales which run the gamut of style and subject; in other words, the stories are as eclectic as their author. What does...
Cheek by Jowl
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1933500271
Cheek by Jowl is a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, the author argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls the reality trap. Le Guin writes not...
Fan Cultures
AuthorMatt Hills
ISBN0415240255
Fans are one of the most widely-studied groups of media consumers. Often knowing more about a character or series than the star or program-makers themselves, and ready to make active, sometimes surprising readings of plot lines and characters, they are the ultimate active audience.

Fan...
Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe
AuthorJane Espenson
ISBN1933771216
A lot has happened since Finding Serenity. We learned River’s secret; Mal took on the Alliance. Our favorite crew became Big Damn Heroes. And the Browncoats proved that hard work, passion and a little fan coordination can do the impossible. Serenity Found takes the contents of Finding Serenity even...
Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
AuthorKaren Hellekson
ISBN0786426403
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face...
Nurse! Nurse!: A Student Nurse's Story
AuthorJimmy Frazier
ISBN1845293959
A very worthwhile read.

I've read quite a few of these nurse/doctor/paramedic 'confessions' style books and this is an excellent example. I have seen this before in my amazon recommendations but perhaps been put off by the cover of the book-it is a bit 'cartoon style' so I thought it was going...
The Complete Slayer: An unoffical and unauthorised guide to every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
AuthorKeith Topping
ISBN0753509318
Lists, lists, lists. Lord, but this author loves lists! As such, he does provide a rather unique viewpoint amongst Buffy guidebooks - albeit one that provides more recitation than insight, and to a degree farther than most fans might desire. Still, that does mean that there is often at least one factoid...
How to Land an A330 Airbus and Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man.
AuthorJames May
ISBN0340994568
Being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him fifty ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds made James May certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact.

He reckons there are nine vital things that a chap should be able to do. Not stuff you can download from the...
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
AuthorJanet Todd
ISBN1582433399
From the Romantic period's star circle, the story of its saddest casualty--Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of an original feminist, sister of a literary star, and hopeful object of a poet's affection, dead of suicide at the age of nineteen. Little contemporary information was written about Fanny...
Angel: the Casefiles, Volume 1
AuthorNancy Holder
Angel Investigations: We Help the Helpless "Los Angeles. It's a city like no other....People are drawn here. People, and other things. They come for all kinds of reasons. My reason? It started with a girl."

-- Angel, "City of"

For a hundred years, Angel offered an ugly death to everyone...
Passions of the Renaissance
AuthorPhilippe Ariès
And now volume three. My reviews of the first two books in this series have garnered a fat total of 0 votes, positive or negative, so I'll make this review brief.

This book charts the transistion from the middle ages to the beginnings of the modern period. In the introduction by Aries (who's scholarship...
A History Of Marriage
AuthorElizabeth Abbott
ISBN0143017144
What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition...
A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
AuthorShappi Khorsandi
ISBN0091922925
In the tradition of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, comes a story of a young narrator in the midst of her eccentric family. But rather than landed gentry or bohemian travelers, it's a mad extended Iran clan who flee Tehran to 1980s Britain after the...
Angel: The Casefiles, Volume 2
AuthorPaul Ruditis
ISBN0689871457
An extraordinary television companion, Angel: The Casefiles – Volume 2 delves deep into this riveting fantasy series. Covering seasons 3 and 4, character profiles are given for the main cast and recurring characters (chronicling their journeys throughout the show up to the end of season 4) along...
Or Is That Just Me?
AuthorRichard Hammond
ISBN0297855212
Richard Hammond is approaching his fortieth birthday and this is the book that retells the events of that year. The book is actually quite witty - even occasionally laugh out loud funny – and told in a very conversational style. You can almost picture Hammond sitting in the saloon bar with his mates...
All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse
AuthorMartin Gottfried
ISBN0306808374
Winner of an Oscar for Cabaret, a Tony for Pippin’, and an Emmy for Liza with a ‘Z’—all in one year, 1972—Bob Fosse (1927–1987) was one of America’s greatest choreographers and directors. Born in Chicago, young Fosse began his career tap-dancing as part of the Riff Brothers in sleazy...
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater
AuthorVan Jensen
ISBN1593622031
More lies! More vampires! More... puppets! Pinocchio is back, but now he has to share the vampire-killing stage with his wooden siblings. The stakes are raised in this sequel to the acclaimed 2009 graphic novel, as Pinocchio unravels the mystery of the undead menace and his own shadowy background....
Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
AuthorEllis Amburn
ISBN0312145314
Drawing upon original interviews, his own relationship with Kerouac, Kerouac's recently published letters, and still-unpublished journals from the Kerouac archives, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner Kerouac that has not appeared in any previous biography. This is the "subterranean" Kerouac whom...
Why Do Dramas Do That? Part 1
AuthorJavabeans
Why do dramas do that?

Korean television dramas aren't just for Korea anymore—their popularity has exploded across the globe, picking up rabid followings and spawning addictions worldwide. Maybe it's the glossy production value or the fast-paced, addictive storytelling of dramas...
Motorworld
AuthorJeremy Clarkson
ISBN0141017872
In the early nineties, Jeremy Clarkson had outgrown Top Gear (or so he thought) and embarked upon making several other television series, culminating, at the end of that decade, with his own chat-show. Most interesting of these was Motorworld and the book based on the show is probably Clarkson's best...
Chaplin: A Life
AuthorStephen Weissman
ISBN1559708921
Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but severe alcoholism cut short his father's flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Charlie at age seven was committed to the Hanwell School...
America, You Sexy Bitch
AuthorMeghan McCain
ISBN0306821001
She is a single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger, the daughter of a Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He is a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee. Meghan...
The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
AuthorLeigh Montville
ISBN0385520336
Reminds one of the novel Jack Torrence wrote during his residence at the Overlook Hotel. John Montague golfed really, really well. There, you have been spared maybe 300 of the 400 pages of Montville's really, really repetitive retelling of Montague's rise from armed robber to Hollywood swell to guy...
Sweets: A History of Candy
AuthorTim Richardson
ISBN1582343071
In Sweets, Tim Richardson takes us on a magical confectionery tour, letting his personal passion fuel the narrative of candy's rich and unusual history. Beginning with a description of the biology of sweetness itself, Richardson navigates the ancient history of sweets, the incredible range and...
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