The Hunger
Review by Tina Ruff, submitted on 27-May-1991

I just completed the book The Hunger by Whitley Strieber, and I have to say, it was definitely a delicious book ( if you'll pardon the expression).

I've seen the movie version about a zillion times, and didn't think it could get any better than that, but I was proven wrong. I liked the book's more detailed explanation of Miriam Blaylock's physical structure and the book got into much more detail of her "kind" and its reason for being.

I also liked how Strieber used the "parallel evolution" theory to explain the existence of Miriam and her kind. If any of you are familiar with Stephen Kaplan (he runs the Vampire Research Center), he wrote a very interesting little book entitled "Vampires Are". (Fortunately it wasn't too long because I couldn't put it down!) Anyway, in the book, Kaplan puts forth many possible theories for the existence of vampires, one being the parallel evolution theory (that vampires evolved right along side human beings), as well as the theory that vampires might be from outer space.

I very much liked the book form of The Hunger even more than the movie.