Interview With the Vampire

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Summary: Not Anne Rice's Best
Review: Anne Rice is my favorite author. She makes characters come alive like no one else. However, this book is one of her worst works. Do not use this book to judge the talent of this woman. I am glad I read this book last in the Vampire Chronicals, because if I had read it first, I would not have continued reading and discovering her works. This is one of the only times I can honestly say, the movie is better than the book. Please, don't read this book and drop Anne Rice from your reading list. The rest of her books are incredible and more than worthy of your time.

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Summary: Interview with vampire
Review: "Interview with Vampire", by Anne Rice, tell you a mysterious life story of a Vampire - Louis, who became an immortal essence, by meeting a stoic person - Lestat. Lestat made his life miserably, when Lestat wants Louis to be a cruel person with no feelings. Louis never lost his human soul and still believes in love and having hope by meeting Cloudia. "Interview with Vampire" may be very different book for every person. I think that author used a lot of details that some times could be missed. And what I liked very much is how the author gave a contrast between the characters, the difference between their personalities. The author does a great job in her writing when she describes feelings, emotions, and actions motivated by those feelings. I would like to recommend this book to people who like fiction and stories about mysteries life of people or creatures,which interested in the life of the Vampires.

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Summary: Bloody, Raw
Review: I loved this book and give it a perfict 5, I loved the way the author describes the feeling, and emotion that the main chairicter Louis feels, the canning lust filled vampire named Lestat, and the inocence of the killings of the dollfaced Claudia. This book grabed my attention from the begining, the way he explains the sarrow within him, feeling like he wants to die. Then like a newborn opening his eyes for the first time which explains the evolution of the human to vampire.

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Summary: Worthy Twentieth Century Successor to the Vampire Mythos
Review: If Anne Rice had stopped here, if she had never written another word about the vampires or the witches, I think this book would be discussed as the ultimate 20th century vampire tale. Unfortunately, many people now look down on Rice as a "preternatural" (Rice sure does love that word)Danielle Steele. This is due, no doubt, to the fact that Rice's output since then has been rather rushed.(one or two books a year... and usually the same narrative structure of somebody recounting their tale to another). Perhaps Rice's work has been marred by her prolificness (is that even a word). Rice lost me with Taltos and Memnoch the Devil when it didn't even seem like she gave much thought to her stories anymore. But this first book is a tremendous achievement on a par with (yes, I am going there) Bram Stokers Count. It's wonderful, exciting, and engrossing. If all her books go out of print, this and 1990's "The Witching Hour" deserve to be sold forever. I would also recommend the first two sequels to this novel: The Vampire Lestat (which is far and away the favorite of the series)and The queen of the Damned (another place that Rice could have stopped her series). But not one of her novels has touched me as emotionally as her first. I can rememeber waiting to come home and read it every night (and yes, i *do* have a life too..) Written in a beautiful style, "Interview" only proves that Anne Rice herself is the true queen of the damned. Now if only she'd write another great one..it's been long overdue.

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Summary: 200 years of history told through one persons eyes!
Review: This is a facinating book because it takes what you know about vampires and greatly expands on it because the story is told from the point of view of a vampire that wishes he wasn't a vampire!

What makes the story facinating is that vampires make mortals into vampires so that they will have companionship down through the centuries. The vampires no longer have sex - although the act of drinking blood gives them intense hallucinogenic images from the victims life, which is as intimate and exciting as sex.

BASIC STORY LINE: It has been 200 years since Louis was made into a vampire in New Orleans by Lestat. Louis was a rich plantation owner in New Orleans when it was under control of the French. Louis is stalked by Lestat and given the "dark gift". After becoming a vampire Louis goes on a intense philosopical quest trying to find meaning in the universe. He wants to know when Satan is going to show up, since it is obvious to him that they are evil creatures. Lestat has a party mentality and tells Louis that he has been a vampire for over 500 years and he has never seen God or the devil and he could care less - he is having a great time. Fearing that Louis will leave him, Lestat makes a 12 year old girl that Louis was facinated with into a vampire. The kicker is this - you never age physically anymore once you are made into a vampire. Claudia doesn't really understand what has happened to her since she has the mind of a child. But as the years pass and she goes through puberty emotionally without any outlet and comes to realize that she is permanently trapped in a child's body she is filled with rage.

This is the background for one of the most facinating love triangles you will ever read. This book is a very complex and engrossing story. Try it!

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Summary: The best in the series
Review: Absolutely the best of the best. If you haven't read it, read it. If you have read it, read it again!

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Summary: Interview With The Vampire Review
Review: A story of a vampire's life

I found this book to be very interesting. It is about the life of a vampire named Lestat. Most of the story takes place in New Orleans where Lestat first becomes a vampire and then starts his new lifestyle. He starts to do the things other vampires do like sleeping in a coffin and staying up all night but one thing he does that other vampires don't in that he feels for things. This is something that really effects him and the other vampires he associates with throughout the book. I would say that one theme in the book could be Love. Lestat falls in love with another vampire that he created named claudia who is a small orphan child. Overall I felt this was a great book and I highly recomend it.

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Summary: One Of The Greats
Review: Probably the best vampire book ever written, including the original Dracula, Interview is mesmerizing. Treating the undead as angst ridden homosexuals was brilliant. Surprising, thoughtful and amusing, this is a book that I would recommend to anyone; it's way up near the top in the horror genre.

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Summary: Stop your whinging Louis!
Review: Firstly, I'll comment on the negative - the angst from Louis. What a moaner, whinger, whiner. Complain and the "oh, woe is me", just got too much. Lestat - couldn't you have picked someone else to spend eternity with?? I just hated that Louis character.

Didn't like the writing... blah, blah, blah. I guess since this was my first romantic horror goth type book, I didn't know what to expect. I found it hard yakker getting through this novel, but did it as I was halfway through when the hype hit about a movie being made, based on the story.

The positive - Lestat, how a vampire should be. Beautiful and flawed. So selfish, and so he should be. So manipulative, and should be after spending years roaming the world.

Conclusion - not in a huge hurry to read another Rice book. If I found one in my bookshelf and I had nothing else to read, I may consider it.

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Summary: Like mucking through a swamp
Review: People either love or hate Anne Rice's work. There is no in between, and it amazes me that anyone can actually read this stuff. While her concepts are genuinely interesting, reading her prose is like mucking through a Louisiana swamp. She has good ideas in some cases, but her writing is so bad, it's difficult to pinpoint just what she is trying to say.