Interview With the Vampire

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Summary: A GREAT BOOK I WAS SUPRISED I LOVED
Review: The book Interview with the Vampire is a book many said was not that good but I like books I should not read. The book was great. The charector Louis is very facinating and compasionate. Lestat is played as and evil vampire but if you read on in the Chornicals you will discover why Lestat does what he does. Claudia is so amazing many said she made them feal sad. I thought she was great and I wish what happenes to her did not, but I guess it was part of the plot. The movie is also really good. It does not really change from the book and Kristen Dunst who plays Claudia is so good at potraying Anne Rice's charectors that it makes you think it is truely Cluadia. READ THIS BOOK YOU WILL LOVE IT. ANNE RICE IS AMAZING.

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Summary: Pure, Unadulterated Drivel
Review: I read this book several years ago. I had a hard time understanding it's concepts and story at the time. Not too long ago I went back and read it and now that I fully understand the content I can honestly say that it is one of the biggest pieces of literary garbage ever written. The characters lack anything that makes them sympathetic. Louis droned on and on and on about how he didn't like killing but he did it anyway. Maybe it's just me but I don't find it interesting when the lead character commits murder. The scene with the girl killed in Paris theatre in full view of the audience was disgusting. If you want to read a novel on vampires, read 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Avoid this piece of scum at all costs.

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Summary: Fantastic Erotic Tale!
Review: I first encounterd this book when I was 12 and in the library looking for something good to read. The title caught my eye and I checked it out and I'm glad I did! The story, as told from the point of view of the vampire Louis tells of the love/hate "family" relationship between Louis, his maker Lestat and their child Claudia. Louis is having a hard time dealing with the fact that he must kill in order to exsist (some call it whining, but I call it endearing). I read this book for the first time in a couple of days (it's that good) My favorite character in the entire vampire series is Louis. I know most people think that Lestat is the hero of this novel, but Interview is Louis' tale and I understand his point of view completely. He doesn't whine, Louis just wants a better understanding of what he is and how he should feel about that. I wish Ms. Rice would write novels featuring more of him because his character is so human and so beautifully written that I look for him FIRST in each new novel by her. Some have called it too homoerotic, but I happen to like this type of romance. It is obvious that Louis and Lestat both love and hate one another and it is this relationship that is the basis of the novel. If you have never read a book by Ms. Rice, let Interview With the Vampire be your first. But be warned, you'll get hooked!

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Summary: Pretty good, but it wasn't "all that".
Review: I liked this book and it was well written. However it didn't capture my attention as much as I though it would. It was my 1st Anne Rice novel. I think her writing appeals to a specific type of reader. I'll probably read her other stuff, as well.

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Summary: Best of the Series
Review: This was the first vampire book I'd ever heard of where the vampire was the one telling the story. That was interesting enough to get me to read it. But that's not what I loved about the book. The entire story was filled with rich and vivid description, incorporating every sense, immersing the reader in the life, or unlife, of the vampire Louis.

The story starts out in New Orleans slightly before Louis is made into a vampire by the complex and fiendish vampire Lestat. Louis then recounts his time in New Orleans as a vampire, and his travels after leaving Lestat. Throughout all, we begin to understand what drives a vampire to stay alive, what needs he seeks to fill in his eternity of undeath.

The story of Louis is steeped in a romanticization of New Orleans and Paris, told in a prose that allows the reader to experience it as if firsthand. The description is so rich one can almost taste the hot humid air of pre-industrial New Orleans, see and smell the decay of the overcrowded Paris and its underworld.

It is a vibrant tale of longing and a quest for meaning in a seemingly empty existence. It is also a very rewarding reading experience.

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Summary: A Very Powerful, Beautiful, And Well Told Novel
Review: Besides Dracula, this book is probably the most recognized and purchased Vampire title, and for good reason. Rice's style was very hard to adjust to at first, as someone who read her for the first time with this book, but once you're use to it it sucks you in. This is a very beautiful and powerful story leading through the history of a Vampire named Louis. It discusses how and when he was turned into a Vampire--at the hands of the infamous Vampire Lestat. This is a book that truly belongs in the classic literature section decades and centries from now, and hopefully it will earn its place. This is a book everyone should be had to read, and it is certainly well worth the reading.

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Summary: "Interview with the Vampire" begins a new era...
Review: Simply breath-taking and beautifully written, Anne Rice begins a new era in horror fiction with the arrival of "Interview with the Vampire." Though the block-buster movie brought the character of Lestat alive with Tom Cruise's face, the character was already a vibrant figure through Rice's careful depiction. Thoroughly researched, her books are steeped in history and study, bringing a level of validity and depth to her writing that many of her contemporaries lack. Crafted in a modern, gothic-esque fashion, the story weaves through a span of some two hundred years as the character, Louis, meets Lestat and is made a vampire. His dealings and travels are remarkably relayed, drawing the reader into the story. You cannot put it down! Luckily, this is only the beginning of the Vampire Chronicles, and the seed is sown for the remaining five novels...

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Summary: Good weekend novel
Review: The richness of the description, the dark psiquis of Louis and the egotistic personality of Lestat will ensnare any reader in Anne Rice's supernatural world. In this novel you will travel with Anne Rice in lush settings through all Europe, and Old New Orleans.

The beat of the novel is rapid slowing only to give rich details of mystic surroundings and the feeling of the exotic characters. This novel will keep you coming for more.

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Summary: Great, but I like the next one better
Review: I had to knock off one star becuse Louis wines alot! This book has fantasic carteters and wonderful settings. But it seems more like a vampire sob story more then anything else. I like The Vampire Lastat alot better but this was a fantastic way to start a sries.

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Summary: GREAT!
Review: This is my favorite book. The way rice uses vampires to tell a sensual and sensational tale about the human search for answers and meaning in existance through a vampire is brilliant. Louis is one of the most endearing characters i have ever read. This is by far her best work, and the reast book i have ever read.