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Summary: The First One
Review: This is the first of the vampire chronicles that started it all. I found Louis, a dark, brooding and reluctant vampire. Always giving excuses and remorseful, but he continued killing nevertheless. Lestat through Louis' eyes was a sychophant who depended on Louis for wealth management and later companionship. A weakling and inferior character to Louis. This is a good introduction to Vampire Chronicles. However, it was so much out of jive with the subsequent titles of the chronicles. Looks to me that Anne didn't plan the Interview to have a sequel. When she did have a sequel, she played down the inconsistencies as lies coming from Louis. Refreshing on its own.
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Summary: Andy's Review
Review: Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice for me was a great book. I always wanted to read carefully to learn more and more about a vampire's life; how it became something like the living dead, surviving off animals and people, living an eternal life when never ageing or changing while the whole world around you changes, and having different kinds of powers than other vampires like moving at the blink of an eye. It was maily about the day in the immortal life of a vampire suffering. This book is simply genius and thats why i give it a perfect 5 stars.
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Summary: the only chronicle you really need
Review: This is where it all started; everything after is an action/adventure/thriller variation of the same idea. Lestat is firmly established here(but better explained in The Vampire Lestat.) This is Louis' account, so you'll find everything you need to know about the most human and sympathetic vampire in history. Claudia makes this book the most interesting out of the rest of the Chronicles; she's a procelin doll of a vampire; she a powerful woman trapped in a doll's body. This is where you should start. If you want to understand why Lestat is Lestat get TVL.
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Summary: shannon
Review: I really liked this book, it was just so fasinating the whole story was great, it made you feel like you were right there with them while they were experincing everything.
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Summary: An immortal classic
Review: Now while I can't say that this is my favorite book in the whole vampire chronicles series, I will have to give credit where its due. This book definitely is the mother of all fictional vampire books. I have reqd quite a few and none of them were as good as Anne Rice's popular vampire chronicles series. I also confess that the first book I read in the series was "Queen of the Damned". I loved the title of the book. What sets apart Anne's books from other fictional vampire books is the amount of effort she puts in (like researching about the legend of Osiris and Isis for "Queen of the Damned"). Plus her style of writing isn't dumbed down like a lot of books that I have read. The other vampire books that I have read should have been written in comic book format, not in a novel format. They were horribly cheesy IMO. Although not my favorite book in the series, "Interview With the Vampire" is still a classic. I will agree to a certain extent with a reviewer that Louis is a bit of a whiner but the same can be said about Lestat. The film version of the book was exceptional. The cinematography was just excellent but it had its flaws like the miscasting of Armand and that the events in the beginning and end of the book did not happen. At least the film version of "Interview With the Vampire" is more entertaining and stays true to form than that wretched "Queen of the Damned" (a horrid idea to combine the 2nd and 3rd books in the series into one novel). Back to the book, I loved Anne's tribute to her dearly departed daughter and writing her as the child vampire Claudia. What a fitting yet haunting tribute. As I have said before, "Interview With the Vampire" may not be my very favorite book in the vampire chronicles series but had it not existed there would not be Lestat, Armand, Louis, Marius, and the other familiar vampire characters. "Interview With the Vampire" will go down in vampire lore as one of the most beloved books ever written, alongside Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
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Summary: a very interesting view of the fasnating world of vampries
Review: while I have not read this book by hand (yet) I got the audio tape of it from my local librarey. and found the story intreuging and quite modern yet not as modern as our own time period. I have always been fasnated by the myths and stories of vampiers. and found that this book hit very firmly on the life of the importal un-dead. the story is a very good one and althoug it does take a bit of pactience eventully you find your self wanting to know more about the charcter Lue and his teacher Lastat and other charcters that fall into place with this time less classic. I enjoyed this story very much and look forward to reading The Vampire Lastat the next book in the vampire chorincles. this book is a good classic vampire story to read if you are like me and can't get enough of vampire stories but. if you look for somthing with the modern world view and vampires that exisit in it. I would diffently say that would have to be
The Vampire Lastat but I would highly recommend not skiping the lines and read this book before you leap to the second book. and as you should with all the books in the vampire chroncles seeing is how this book ties into most of the books that come into place afterward. but diffently a good read do pick it up highly recommend to those with a taste for gothic leterture.
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Summary: What's eating you?
Review: Interview with the Vampire was a fun book it had me on edge wondering what was going to happen next. I was very foucused on Louis because even though he was supposed to be evil and had evil ability and power he chose not to use it like Lastat. Lastat scared me because he was capable of anything and he acted as if he cared of nothing. Claudia was a very powerful little girl and I never really trusted her because she reminded me alot of Lastat. The plot was was kind of confusing but at the end i understood what was missing and every thing come together in the end. The characters all had their own image they were non the same. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fiction and want a little suspence.
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Summary: immortal
Review: the book deserves 5 stars, and more. it's the best out of the vampire chronicles series. dark, tortuous, depressing, sensuous. FRESH. the first time i read it moved me to tears. the second time i cried again. maybe again the third time, and the time after that. it's a rare, great read. kind of sad that the author has been going downhills ever since this first brilliant start. if only her other books would measure up to IWTV, Anne Rice might truly be immortal as a literary figure.
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Summary: Kitty Box Fodder
Review: I read this book about six years ago. After the first 50 pages, as the plot began to bogg down, I quickly lost interest and quite frankly had to force myself to finish the book. My short review is as follows: unjustifyably long, unjustifyably long-winded characters (even for an interview), generally boring.
Nevertheless, in my desire to give this popular author another chance, I followed up with 'The Vampire Lestat' about a year later. My opinion of 'Lestat' was much the same. The endless babble and moralizing that seems to fill these Vampire's evenings would seem more appropriate to daytime drama than my idea of a good Vampire novel. These guys do get down to the business of really being Vampires, intermittantly, but only after seemingly enless interludes of historical meanderings back through the mists of time, as MS. Rice apparently trys to re-contruct the beginings of Vampirism. While this type of diversion might be of interest to some, I felt that it just slowed down the already anemic plot, derailled the storyline and made it all seem rather pompous and overblown! That's not what I want from a 'scary' novel!
But then again, maybe that's the whole idea - less plot/more filler/more meandering/more novels.
Anne Rice has indeed discovered the Button of commercial success and has determined to press it again and again without deference to artistic considerations nor any desire to create true litureature. I guess there is really nothing wrong with that, we all need to make a living. I guess I just expected too much. Maybe the movies can bring these dogs to life. In the mean time I'll be saving a little on kitty litter now that I've decidied to retire these two from my library.
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Summary: Disappointment!
Review: I read the others before this and frankly was disappointed while i love lestat and armand i found this book a let down. Louis is a whiney annoyin weak character who has no guts. Claudia unfortunately had her life ruined due to a stupid act by lestat. So her character has turned into a spoiled brat.
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