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Summary: The Vampire Lestat
Review: this is a great book,andi suggestreading this book 1st before you read anymore of Anne Rice"s books, but htis is deffidently one of her best, and really depicts a great vampire legend. i've read tons of vampire books but htis is sertinaly the best, since most are based a tiny legends, but this really is a masterpiece
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Summary: Wow, just wow
Review: This book was an excellent read. This was the first book I have read by Anne. After readng it though, I became upset with the film Queen of the Damned, and I know I will feel even more resentment once I read Queen of the Damned, just because of its inaccurate information. But that's hollywood for you I suppose. Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed Lestat and hated putting it down. I can't wait to read the rest of the Vampire Chronicles, which I plan to read the entire series by the end of my senior year of high school, May 2005. I have the feeling I'll finish the series long before that time, just through the way Anne's writing drew me in to the world of the Vampires the first time I entered it. I can hardly wait to be swept away into the lives of the Immortals.
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Summary: Hauntingly Beautiful
Review: The Vampire Lestat is an entralling story. Anne Rice writes in a sensual and poetic way that enraptures the reader into her dark and beautiful realm of the damned. This book is surprisingly philosphical, and in my opinion, just as good as Interview with the Vampire. The characters seem so real that your may find yourself becoming emotionally attached to them. I like how The Vampire Lestat, explores the character of Lestat on a much deeper level. Many questions that were not anwsered in Interview are anwsered in this book.
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Summary: My Heart Revealed.
Review: The Vampire Lestat book by Anne Rice was the first book i ever read that was more then 200 pages. After the mesmerizing tale, i could not help but love Lestat. After that book, i collected all the chronicles that was ever written by anne rice!! i loved each and everyone of them, from blood and gold to blackwood farm and tale of the body thief. These books gave me a world to escape into. A world that i envy very much because i want it. The book was written in such a way, that no one can distinguish whether it is real or not. that is how i feel. The books gave me a new way of thinking. i am certainly one of Lestat's biggest fans! i have his pictures every where in my room and i drive my friends crazy about how i want a guy like him. The character Lestat is someone whom every one will grow to love no matter what because he is someone a person can look upto, to be inspired by, to love without getting hurt. that is what is so special about him and the books. they are so real that after a few days you will be thinking in such a way as if they do exist. well, i wish they did!! i could read this book over and over again without getting tired or bored of it. These books are truely the work of a talent and great personality. A big thumbs up to anne rice and lestat along with Marius,Quinn, and Armand.
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Summary: Chilling, stunning, and wonderful
Review: This is the story of Lestat...the whole story. From his youthful adventures in the 18th Century French countryside to his escapades in Paris as a rebellious young man. Rice takes us through Lestat's history as a vampire and his eventual resurrection from Vampiric slumber in the late 20th Century. Lestat's evolution from a dreaming young man into a vengeful demon of the night is chronicled brilliantly in this novel. Not the slower, ponderous writing style that Louis used in Interview with the Vampire, this book picks up quickly and never lets back. A must read!
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Summary: Best book in the world!!!
Review: Anne Rice's book The Vampire Lestat is just as riveting as Interview with the Vampire. In this book Lestat is an arrogant vampire who loves pissing off the elder vampires, as well as the fledglings (young vampires); he just doesn't follow the rules. Now you would think that being a vampire means you would be free, that's not how Rice describes immortality, Lestat is the vamp we all loved in Interview with the Vampire and now there is a whole book about him. Can you imagine what that is like? Well you don't have to just read the book. Rice takes you all around the world. Her tale starts in the province of Auvernge, France then takes you on a wild journey through Paris, Cairo, and Rice goes back 1800 years to tell the story of Marius (one of the "Children of Millennia"), and Rice tells of Armand who was about 300 years old at the time. Lestat has some companions in this book. There is Gabrielle, Lestat's mortal mother, who was dying so Lestat gave Gabrielle the "Dark Trick", as Armand called it, by draining her almost to the point of death then told her to drink his blood which turns her into a "Child of Darkness" . Nicholas, who was Lestat's mortal friend, then Lestat turns Nicholas into a vampire because he was going to die anyway. Louis who was the protagonist in Interview with the Vampire that Lestat also gave the "Dark Trick" comes near the end of the tale which by the way Lestat is writing as he recalls it. Then he comes out of the book and becomes a rock star.
I found this to be one of the best vampire books I have ever read. I found the past sections to be more interesting than the present sections. I found I was also partial to the sections that had Akasha and Enkil in them (the mother and father), because if any thing happens to them then it happens to all vampires. The only thing Rice could have done better was to go more in depth on the way that vampires were first created. That would be the only improvement area.
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Summary: The Second Time's a Charm!
Review: Anne Rice, one the best-selling authors of our time, continues the vampire chronicles with a second novel, The Vampire Lestat. A branch-off of Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat more closely explores the character Lestat de Lioncourt, a 200 year old vampire from France. The beautifully written piece introduces readers to a man haunted by his past, present, and future. Each time the novel is read, the reader's understanding becomes clearer and the story is brought to life by Rice's extraordinary talent.
The story starts in 1980's New Orleans. Lestat narrates from his own perspective. He has been asleep underground for years and awakens to a world filled with pain and noise. Rice weaves through time during the story, going from 1989 New Orleans to France in the 1700's. Lestat tells of his strange childhood and relationship with his mother, Gabrielle. Very close to death, she is later turned into a vampire by Lestat. He is suddenly struck by her beauty and cannot bring himself to call her "mother." He also introduces the character, Nicholas, with whom he had a very strange relationship with homosexual undertones. Marius, an "ancient" and Lestat's maker, reveals to him all secrets of the vampires. Lestat becomes the only vampire younger than 500 years old to know where all vampires come from. He rebels against the "ancients" and begins to tell the vampire secrets in the form of songs and books. Lestat's rebellious spirit puts him in grave danger and he soon rouses the queen of all vampires, Akasha.
Anne Rice uses colorful words and settings to deliver the feeling of being down south and the busy market-place of 18th century France. As the story changes pace, the reader is never left confused because of the smooth transitions between past and present. Rice links fiction and fact together with references to Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. Lestat's relationships with various people give insight on his still human-like persona. He loves with all of his being and experiences pain like other humans. To hold on to human emotions after one is turned into a vampire is both a blessing and a curse.
Lestat shows a need to love and be loved. Rice sheds new light on the "regular" vampire. There are none of the old clichés about vampires. Lestat knows the secret to vampires' existence and his knowledge seems to set him apart from others. I have read The Vampire Lestat at least six times, and each time is better than the last. There is something about vampire novels that catch my attention. I sometimes wonder why vampires drink from the neck and not some other location of a major vein. Rice's novels give me insight on many questions. She makes the marvelous world of vampires almost seem real.
Science fiction, horror, and fantasy works let readers escape normal situations of normal life. Writers can create unimaginable worlds in which all problems evade us. For many, the vampire chronicles are not merely read for entertainment. They become a way for readers to delve into the mind of a truly wonderful," artist," Anne Rice.
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Summary: Intricate
Review: Rice creates a beautiful, sad story that runs deep into emotional and religious territory. It is my favorite of the Vampire Chronicle books because of the flawed, beautiful, and intricate characters and the breathtaking wording that Rice incorporates into each page. A definite must have for book-lovers in general!
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Summary: Bless her heart
Review: My girlfriend wanted me to read this, and i wanted to like it. Let me give the uninitiated a brief glimpse of the book; it goes something like this:- Start: Exciting, swift, entertaining........starts to go on a bit.......long periods of yawning and feeling guilty for skim reading page after page.......gets better again :End There it is, no more no less. Not a great masterpiece of literature as some believe (If you'd ever read one you'd probably know). Average, long winded. I could try and tell you why, but the book has left me so exhausted that i am not going to waste any more effort on it.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This book was beyond anything that I have ever read before. I've always loved vampire novels, and Ann Rice is one of the best authors I've read. Like many people, I started to gain interest in Ann Rice's books after watching Interview with the Vampire. But I finally chose to read the books when I saw the most recent movie Queen of the Damned. As I was reading the book, it was easy to imagine exactly what kind of person (so to speak) Lestat really is. Lestat suffers from the one thing that almost all humans fear; loneliness. I guess that's what makes him different from most vampires. He still has some of his human moralities left. Nevertheless, Rice's descriptions in everything that is going on is so vivid, you'd swear that Lestat is real. However, some parts of the story made me loss interest and I just skimmed the pages. I guess you can be a little over descriptive. Overall, it was a great book to read and I plan on reading the next one.
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