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Oh, just stop. There's a number of reasons those comments could be gone. Any commenter has the right to dismiss replies made to them. If replies are made to a comment that has been dismissed, all of those go away too because of the threading nature of replies. If 'dissenting' opinions are stated in an obviously…

At least he's a convicted smug, entitled, remorseless little fucker. There's been plenty of days I didn't think we were going to be able to say that.

You're a terrible human being and I hope one day you grow up enough to feel bad about what you wrote here.

"What's an innocuous but believable lie to tell her? I don't want to hurt her feelings by saying, "I just learned that you're a bisexual which also means you're a liar"

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Oh, I love it. I find it a little dense, even for an academic novel and its a bit dated at this point since she was writing between the big Anne Rice vampire era and the more modern Buffy/Twilight resurgence. But I think the book casts a big shadow over any vampire-pop culture analysis. Its not very long so if you…

I assume you guys are reading 'Our Vampires, Our Selves?

I didn't watch Lost, so I didn't know if the comparison was more apt, but I definitely felt The Stand's influence.

Its the prom scene from Carrie.

Yep!

Its a bit dense. It took me a while to get through the first one (haven't read the second), though I normally rip through horror novels. I thought it had a nice old school feel — it reminded me heavily of some of Dan Simmons works, if you've ever read him.

Did you read The Strain, Del Toro's vampire novels?

Oh, I was just plain wrong and I tried to be super gracious in taking my lumps about it. But by reply 45 of the 'you're a dumb cunt', I was about ready to burn the internet down.

Bah, vampires go through waves, just like any long running monster. Sympathetic and/or sexy vampires are hardly a recent invention.

Given the size of the books and the free time of the average mother of a very young child (which Tracie is), I think we can forgive her for taking a bit of time to get through them. Its not like she's recommending the fresh new vampire novel, Carmilla.

I'm gonna declare Carrie the official gif of the Stuebenville case.

I once said something wrong on an io9 article and received 42 responses all saying the same thing, more or less. Some well after the fact. You'd think one of the advantages of Kinja would be the ability to see '41 responses' already.

Truth.