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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Vampire Hunter
Written by Seth Grahame-Smith
Narrated by Scott Holst
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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. NEW! Watch Honest Abe in action here: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_ABLVH.aspx
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. NEW! Watch Honest Abe in action here: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_ABLVH.aspx
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Reviews for Abraham Lincoln
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I read the first 50 pages and was bored, skimmed through the next 150 pages and was still bored, and then just gave up on the book. I've got better things to read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was an interesting story but it didn't quite soar to the heights I was hoping. For one thing it really needed to be more than one book. I think it crammed to much of the time line in. I kept waiting for the action to really cut loose but the story was always in a hurry. Having said that, I finished it and I never finish books I don't enjoy anymore (too many books to read). This might be one of those rare cases where I end up liking the movie better. It probably didn't help that I read this book after Railsea. Mieville is a magician with words.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I thought this book was amazing and somewhat comical in a way. Action packed and will definitely fail to disappoint you with its creative plot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The literary equivalent of fairy floss; enjoyable if somewhat unsatisfying.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5An interesting start that quickly devolved into plodding tedium. Grahame-Smith's style is not bad. The same cannot be said for his story-telling.
Weak. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fun mash up!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought this was a great read. Seth did a great job setting up the story with historical facts weaving in fictional bits. It had enough horror and conflict to keep me intrigued, without taking away from the image that I had of our 16th president.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed the movie. I enjoy similar novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I did not enjoy this so much. The frame story (the author purporting this to be based on a factual diary and that Lincoln's nocturnal affairs were an oft-rumored mainstay of historians, etc) failed to buoy the rest of the novel which was told as a very lackluster historical text.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novel takes the historical figure of Abraham Licoln and transposes it into a fantastic crossover romp of vampires vs humans in an American civil war background. Good plot, we get a mix of first-person diary entries and third-person narrative. Abraham Lincoln's diary entries gives good characterisation whilst the third person narrative ties his character to the plot. The plot is given realism points by the addition of fake 1860s photographs of characters and vampires in America. Unfortunately, these pictures do not work for me because they distract from reading and the reading pace is less flowy as a result.Overall, it is a good book nonetheless, worth reading for the amusement value and the entertainment but not one I'm likely to keep over time - I'll pass it on on BookMooch for others to read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I love to read and rarely do I rate a book 3 stars or less. If the story can keep my attention, then I'm typically a 4 or 5 star rater. This book was a lack luster. Interesting but very dry.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5great read!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54.0 out of 5 stars Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, April 22, 2012This review is from: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Kindle Edition)This book will surprise you. It's not at all what you think, and after reading about it, caught my interest. Pick it up, you won't be sorry.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book starts out an amusing read, but soon feels like the cheap novelty it really is. And a kind of offensive one at that. (The slave/vampire thing.)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought it would be goofy, campy. But it wasn't silly at all. I really enjoyed it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this much more than I thought I would.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you like your presidential biographies with a dash of gore, this is the book for you. Author follows the details of Lincoln's life faithfully but injects vampire-influenced aspects (e.g., his mother died, not of milk sickness but from a vampire bite) Intriguing, fast-paced spin.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith was recently released as a film. I haven't seen it but I might. I think the concept of vampires being behind the Civil War is an interesting one. The film might do a better job of showing the story as the book gets bogged down in endless, dry telling.The framing story behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is of an author finding a secret Lincoln journal which covers his secret life as a vampire hunter. To keep the pretense of this book being the newly published journal going, long passages of the so called journal are presented in block text. It is a visually boring presentation and a fairly mind numbing read for something involving vampire hunting.I got about half way through the book before I decided I'd had enough. These mash-ups aren't for me. It's not the juxtaposition of Lincoln and vampire hunting that I object to. It's the attempt to write in the style of another author or another era. It's an illusion that just can't be held for the entirety of the book (or even a chapter).I prefer instead authors who write in their own voices even when dealing with historical figures.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First of all, this isn't a parody by any means, title notwithstanding. It's a straight forward horror story and the vampires are definitely not of the oversexed overwrought teenage variety. The book pulls off the horror factor without belittling or insulting the character of one of our most beloved presidents. This was a great read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I read this book for a book club with some friends. It was entertaining, but could have been more than that. The premise actually allowed for the possibility of saying something meaningful, but failed to do so.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I wanted this to be so much better.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The best thing about this book? I couldn't tell what was really taken from history, and what the author brought in from his own imagination--everything was so well integrated. The idea of Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter is so absurd, and yet the author made it work. I like that now he's made me want to pick up a scholarly bio of Lincoln and learn more about his life. This is just a fun book, but kudos to Grahame-Smith for inspiring me to seek out more as I read it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A decent book that for some reason I kept putting down. I think because like all "historical fiction" I have a hard time deciphering what was real and what was not. Like for example Did Lincoln and Poe really know each other ? (Internet search says no).Did Lincoln lose children ? (Internet search says yes). Was his wife insane ? (Internet search had different theories)So I just get distracted by some of those things and start reading those searches instead of moving on with the book.In general not as gruesome as I thought it would be and am thinking about reading more from this author.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book is quite clever. Seth Grahame-Smith does an excellent job of fitting a story of Lincoln as a vampire slayer into a generally vague history of Lincoln for real. The result is a narrative that reads like the typical historical biography. For better or worse.The story is interesting, it does "grab" the reader in places, but it also tends to be a little dry - just like a historical biography.Certainly, if you like the idea of "alterna-histories," this is an interesting addition to the genre.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Highly entertaining. Seth Grahame-Smith actually managed to fit the plot around historical events quite well. I don't really have that much else to say about it other than it had an interesting premise and that I enjoyed reading it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I couldn't finish this book. I don't know how someone could take one of the most lively personalities of American history and suck all the life out of him, making him worse than undead, more like cardboard. The plot was dull, dull, dull. I read 40% of the way through, but I had to quit because it was going nowhere very slowly. Although I fully believe Lincoln would have hunted vampires if they were there, he would have done it with dry humor intact and a joy in the life around him.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I did not believe I would enjoy it as much as I did. I was pleased at how it was written. It had a great story to it. Definitely one I did not want to put down. I felt so sorry for Abe. Just so much death all around him.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5" Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is a very entertaining novel by Seth Grahme-Smith that I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish. The novel spans from the point of birth and death of Abraham Lincoln, with some extra parts of history that weren't necessarily undisclosed to most people. Lincoln's first encounter occurs when his go-for-broke father receives a loan from a vampire. When he is unable to pay the loan back, Abe overhears the vampire saying that he would "pay in another way." Shortly after this, his mother falls ill and dies. Abe then vows to "kill every vampire in America." He then trains himself to hunt these unrealistic yet oh so real beings by training himself physically and mentally by studying up on every piece of vampire related document, story, or first hand account he could find. After he leaves his father to go out on his own, he will start his career in stalking vampires.This novel was very well put together, mixing these fictional vampires with actual events of the time. For instance, the vast majority of the vampires were southern confederates, although there was a small vampire union that Lincoln would use to fight the south with and to also defend his own family. Here was also never a lack of action in the novel, as there were always battle sequences, depicting gruesome scenes of mortal limes being thrown about and vampires killing their own kind on the opposite side.Since I found that there was nothing to really complain about, I give this a five out of five rating. This is definetely, nevertheless, one of the most interesting reads I've seen in a long time, and I would recommend this to anyone who wants to see a little twist on history.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this book more than I expected. I had never read anything about Lincoln, and the author made what could have been a boring biography way more fun. I do wonder how much of the history was accurate?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow, what a fun book. I really enjoyed how Seth interspersed Abe's known life with vampire hunting. While I am not a Lincoln expert what little I do know fit right in. I got the impression that a bit of research was conducted to have as many true bits about Lincoln as possible through out the book. Abe's mom died when he was only 7 years old, and it was later he discovered that a vampire was responsible for her death. From that day forward he swore to ride the US of vampires. He started by luring his mothers killer to his death. Bolstered by his success he almost dies in his second attempt, if it wasn't for the timely intervention of Henry, Abe never would have seen the White House.Abe had a destiny and Henry helped him meet it head-on. Henry however, had plenty of secrets of his own.I thought it was a great book and a lot of fun. Excellent vampire yarn and a great story for those how like them.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you would like to have your ideas of history and particularly Abraham Lincoln twisted a bit, you should read this book. The premise of the story is that vampires do exist and they have been the driving force behind many significant historical events. They are even the motivation for Abraham as he seeks revenge for the untimely death of his mother. It does sound funny and kind of corny, but really Grahame-Smith has done a good job of not being too over-the-top and riding the edge of believability so that it all sounds plausible. Again, an interesting fun twist on history.