Interview With the Vampire

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Summary: A truly touching series...
Review: There isn't a foul word i can speak for Anne Rice's vampire Chronicles. I was literally swept away by the her enchanting words. I tasted, felt, heard, touched and hung on every last phrase. I found myself in Paris gazing around corners and examining shadows, as if Lestat, Louie, or Claudia might just peer back. Never before has a novel meant so much to me or touched me so deeply. Anne is a goddess in her own right.

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Summary: Anne Rice....The gothic Genius.
Review: Anne Rice is a terrific writer.I've read every book in the chronicles, and people who see this book as drab,boring or otherwise,are quite simply not READING the book.Anne Rice doesn't write for the average TV worshipping joe.SHe writes her books in a manner that actually makes a reader think.People who behave in such harshly negative ways aren't seeing the romantic side of these works.

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Summary: This was a emotionaly provactive book.
Review: This book was emotional in a sense that you would become attached Claudia the young Vampire. Its wordiness gives this book a good rating. It helps to make the imagination roam and one could become indulged in this book. Although Louis wines a lot an Lestat is actually telling him the truth on not knowing anything you run into incidents where you question the validity of the two. Never had I read a book of Vampires that seems so real. This is a well written book and well worth your time.

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Summary: Truly Splendid
Review: In reading previous reviews here, I have to say that I was surprised. Before the movie came out her books were true classics, but now with the movie out all these people lost respect for her. Sure it is not a horror book in the strictest sense, but it is a work of literary art. People who consider anyone who creatively produces a work " boring" need to examine their souls and see how closed they are to others artistic expressions. The first time I read was BEFORE the movie, and I felt cold chills throughout every page.

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Summary: O my God - I love this book!!!!!!!!
Review: NOT!!! OK - it was just boring. There was too much about the tedious vampires like Louis, who is just pathetic, and all the others, who are sad. Don't read it, and don't end up like some kind of schizo who falls in love with Lestat. See the movie, if you want to, or if you fancy Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise (warning - they both look like drowned rats in this film, and consequently pretty rough), or Christian Slater. OK - that's it. Adios amigos (I'm not Spanish, by the way)

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Summary: Put a stake in this book!!!
Review: I am a real fan of horror books and went into this book looking for a good read. I kept reading and reading and the story plodded on and on. I don't know if was Rice's style, the story, or what. I would keep going back to read it, to give the book a chance, but finally I just stopped reading and never finished it. I found the book boring and dull. I eventually wanted to put a stake in this book to put it out of its misery!

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Summary: Dislike Anne Rice?
Review: Many people intensely dislike Anne Rice's work, they hate her style, her subject matter,and the fact that she doesn't write horror stories, but tales about 'monsters' who are surprisingly like us. They laugh like us, cry like us and they suffer the same insecurities and delusions that we do. Or maybe,these critics just don't like the thought that they may not be at the top of the food chain,after all! All joking aside, this is what "Interview" and all the other novels are really about,food for thought. What more can one ask from a novel;spellbinding imagery and a literary style that transports the reader into another century, a disturbing walk in anothers' footsteps and an insight into the soul of the damned.

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Summary: Everyone says "10" for a rating....
Review: Boring ! I didn't like it. These vampires are all too complicated. They didn't convince me.

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Summary: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Review: I think this is the best book I have ever read. I read this book 5 times. Yes it is true. Because I live in Turkey. And the Turkish reader have got only this book's Turkish edition.:((( If you want to think about your life and your relations you must read this book. (and other Anne Rice's Vampire books) When I read this book my life is changed. Thanks to Anne Rice for this book.

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Summary: A very beautiful piece of work.
Review: Interview With the Vampire wasn't spellbinding, but it was enjoyable. Anne Rice is the first novelist I ever read something by, that wrote of vampires in good and evil ways. When the book first opens up, you have a heartbroken vampire, Louis, and a male reporter, (later known as Daniel, in the Vampire Chronicles) who needs a story. It attracted my attention from the very beginning-there wasn't any vulgar vampires, or right away, blood-sucking gore, just an intriguing way of starting a cunning tale. It captured my fancy, as the story reached it's peak with Claudia. Lestat who seemed like a fiend from hell, isn't like that in the least, of the remaining four novels. I was very much interested in the progressing relationship, between Claudia and Louis, as well as Lestat, who had a tremendous effect, on the two. I liked the little things, that made her book different from others I have read-vampires aren't allergic to garlic, they have a reflection in the mirror,(so they can see how captivating they look), crosses, holy water, the bible, and onions have no effect on them whatsoever. The only really fatal hazard was, the killer rays from the sun. I hated the fact that they couldn't have sex. To me, vampires who can have sex are more sexy and enticing, in my opinion. I disliked the way it ended-what happens to the reporter, where is Louis? Had this been the only book Anne wrote on her characters, those would be the questions still dangling in the open, but luckly those questions are answered in the latter part of the series. Overall, this was a good book to read, and I didn't have to force myself to read it.