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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Rich, Lush, Wonderful! They say Louis is too weak to put people in a trance but he sure did with his story. This is Anne's best book ever. I couldn't put it down. This book belongs up there as one of the best Vampire novels ever written. I saw the movie first before buying the book. I fell in love with Louis in the movie and when I read this book I got a whole different verison of Louis and fell in love with him all over again. I highly recommend this book for anyone, whether you love Vampires or not.
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Summary: Engrossing
Review: I had to read the book a second time to figure out why I loved it, and the answer was not so simple. First, we have to admit that there's not much of a plot, but it's a page turner. It's not clear what the main character wants, but we are drawn to him. He commits many reprehensible acts, yet we root for him. The book works because Rice is a seductress with a pen. We must read on because she has made our worst nightmares, the undead, sympathetic. She humanized them. They are not monsters. They're just regular guys (not really) who are trying to tell their stories.
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Summary: a classic of the genre
Review: The idea of being a vampire is a seductive one i.e. being young and living forever. What Anne Rice's classic novel does though is go beyond the superficial idea and shows the reality of what it would really be like to be a vampire. It tells the story of Louis who after his brother's death is turned in to a vampire. He soon grows to hate the vampire Lestat who made him what he is. In the story he moves from New Orleans to the old world in his search for others like him. He searches along with the girl vampire which he has created. His search takes him to Paris Rice in the story creates some of the most memorable characters in vampire fiction in the tortured Louis and the girl vampire Claudia. The most disturbing part of her is her age: she is six. In the movie it is doubled to twelve, but she is better in the book than the film (despite Kristen Dunst's excellent portrayal of her in the film). Rice manages to show with her writting that although her body may remain a child's her eyes show her real age. There are undertones of homeo eroticism in the relations of Lestat, Louis and Armand, but the central theme running through the book seems to sadness. The feeling saturates the whole book. Anne Rice should be commended for making a true classic of the genre and making her vampires much more than mere killing machines. She makes her vampires all too human and that is her masterstroke
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Summary: I'm hooked.
Review: This book is a beautifully written tale of the vampire named Louis. It talks about how he became a vampire and how he dealt with the issues of killing, serviving, love and loss, and looking for other vampires so that he can learn about what he has become. He has other conflicts because of his resentment of Lestat, the vampire that made him. There are other interesting vampire characters as well. It is a great story with some romantic settings in places like New Orleans and Paris.
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Summary: How did this book ever become popular?
Review: Does anyone actually speak this way? I've never read a book with weaker characters or more boring (and unrealistic) dialogue. Stay away from this complete waste of time.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: I did not think this book would appeal to me, But then on a cold dreary march day I picked it up and could not put it down!!! What a great book!!! Beautifully written and that is what grabs you and does not let you go.
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Summary: Left me breathless
Review: I just finished reading this phenomenal book for the third time, and it still haunts me like the first time. The story has a way of staying with you, of making you think, of altering your world view. It is right at the top of my all time favorite books, and was the beginning of my love affair with dark novels. Intelligent, gothic, lush, and involving. In a word, Unforgettable.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: Ok for starters I didn't expect to enjoy this book, and also I did what many very bad people do and I watched the film before I read the book. I thought the film was great until I read the book and then I realised that the raw sexuality of the text could ony come through in novel form. I adore the way Anne Rice decribes the taking of blood she does it without shame in the way that every other... book I've ever read describes a passionate... encounter. Claudia made me cry, she was so mixed up, without the experience of being treated as an adult, she had to stay a precosious child with a wise old woman's mind and somehow a woman's sex drive, her lust poured through the pages in the same way as Lestats like a thumping pulse. Louis, sweet innocent Louis who should never have been a vampire appreciated evey emotion he felt much ,more deeply than the other characters in the book, and analysed every thing said to him, I fell in love with him. If I met him I'd without hesitation agree to be his eternal partner. Never have I fallen in love with a book so deeply since Flowers in the attic. Pease read this book!
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Summary: Adding a New Level to the Foodchain!
Review: I was completely absorbed by this enthrallingly thought and provoking tale of the travels of Louis Pointe du Lac and the vampire Lestat. The way the story is told by Louis is so different. The 18th-century setting is vividly described, so that pictures are intricately painted in your mind. The story line is such a classical original which delves into deeply emotional and morale aspects of life and death. This story for me brings to mind a saying I once hear which I believe to be true. This saying goes along the lines of 'You had better really want what you want, because you might just get it!'All of the characters are intense, especially the tortured Louis who is refreshingly feeling and regretfully of immortal lot. As you read the story and learn more about Louis, you come to discover a passionate killer who is desparately trying to resist his cold blooded instincts. You can visualise Louis's eternal pain in his struggle to save the small piece of his soul that remains. In the character Louis, you can sense a feeling of total and utter isolation and frustration, because of his display of emotions to those who cannot comprehend them. Lestat is the perfect contrasting character to Louis. He is cold, calculating, oblivious self-obsessed and evil to the core. Claudia is a fascinating character as you roll through the story, and see her maturing from the innocent child victim who is chillingly preyed upon by Lestat, to the cunning and rebellious young woman who comes to the shocking realisation of her fate. Claudia's growing rage and discontent builds deliciously to fever pitch. These characters are all thrust into a 'red hot cauldron'of fascinting travels and murderous conquests throughout the years.
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Summary: whoever thought neurotic vampires would be so interesting?!
Review: While I tend to prefer sci-fi to gothic horror, I received such an enthusiastic endorsement of this book that I went out and bought it. From the very start, when Louis demonstirates his inhumaness by lighting a cigarette too quickly to be seen, I was utterly enthralled by Rice's characters, lumanescent prose, and long view on history. It is as if you entered 19C New Orleans and then Europe with curious, anguished inhuman observers. This book is so good that it should be considered literature rather than potboiler gothic horror. If you get into it, the book can turn you inward, to question your human life, from the neurotic and existential agonies of these inhumans. Warmly recommended.
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