pdotb commented on Blood Is Not Enough: Stories of Vampirism by Joe Haldeman
Content warning long, pretty negative
DNF'ing, which I should have done long before. The first few stories were at least an interesting take on vampirism, that's different from your usual blood-drinking count, though with the slight oddity that each story was followed by several paragraphs of the author explaining why they wrote it. In the ebook this wasn't even particularly set off from the story, which led to some confusion until I realized what was going on.
Things went downhill with Harlan Ellison's story, which was distinctly meh, and followed by pages of self-indulgent self-hagiography. I thought the name sounded familiar so I looked him up online and... yeah. It's not great when the 'Controversies' section of your Wikipedia page has ten sub-sections.
Not sure whether my lack of enthusiasm for the following stories is fair, or just tainted by Ellison's, but I'm done.