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Summary: The Greatest Writer of All Time
Review: Ann Rice is one of the greatest authors I've ever read. Her insights on emotions and philosophy are incredible, and her writing is even more so! The Vampire Chronicles give us a view on the trials of humanity...they are not just kinky books about vampires. The Vampires Chronicles have given me a window on my own soul...questioning my beliefs, my feelings and thoughts about life and death. I have to thank Ann for her books, because they have made me look over things in my life that I never even thought about before. The stories are exciting, Lestat is that rebellious tendency in everyone waiting to break out, Louis is our humanity...each character represents a part of our lives. Your stories are wonderful Ann, keep writing, and I'll keep reading!
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Summary: Some of the most breath-taking books I've ever read!!
Review: Having been an avid reader of gothic type stories that center around vampires and the like .... I was absolutely captivated by Anne Rice's vampire stories.
"Interview with the Vampire" and "The Vampire Lestat" take you into the deep and mysterious world of the night creatures - vampires. The author doesn't just tell you a story, she brings you into the story to the point where you may find yourself compelled to go out and track down a vampire so you too could experience the sensuality and pleasures reserved for these night creatures. I am certainly on the lookout for a vampire!
"Queen of the Damned" presents a truly believable guide to how vampires came into existence. Again the story makes you feel a part of every high and every low throughout. And again the author has given her all to make the reader see and hear everything.
Each story had me entranced and unable to put the book down until I had finished it. Do yourself a favour and read these books - but be warned - you may start to have vampiric desires!
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars, really....
Review: Interview With the Vampire is the only reason this set gets 4 and 1/2 stars... the other three books are outstanding! There is a reason that Lestat, not Louis, becomes the main character of the series. He is so much more enjoyable, and the writing style of the other three books is much more engaging. Still, Interview is not a bad book... it just can't live up to Lestat!
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Summary: Do you really want to live forever?
Review: This is a box set of the first four books of Anne Rice's popular Vampire Chronicles series. Her works are immensely popular and have spawned 1 1/2 movies (calling Queen Of The Damned even half a movie is being extremely generous!) and many many sequels. I picked up this box set after being told by numerous people that the first four were worth reading and I was really pleaseatly surprised. (I've heard that the series really goes downhill fast after the The Tail Of The Body Thief) The vampires in this universe are elegant beings of the night who are very articulate and this traslates to immense description. This may bother some but once you get used to Rice's style, it could best be described as a dreamy flow of the subconscious and it works well for the series. The books take you all over the USA and much of Europe as well and Rice does a great job of creating these vampires that have very human qualities. The series mainly centers around the title character Lestat. Lestat is a fascianting study of the flawed uber-vampire who does what he wants and refuses to conform to the vampire "rules". He knows he is not perfect but realizes the only way to live through immortality is to enjoy oneself whenever one can. The supporting cast has their fair share of interesting characters and the personalities of the vampires are really the heart of the series. A couple of things Rice does makes her vampire world so fascinating. The vampires act as their own little microsociety with rules and taboos that are well thought out and extremely interesting. For example the longer a vampire makes before creating another vampire determines how powerfull that new vampire will be. There are complications to living forever that you never would of thought of. The vampires have no sexual urges but instead the act of bloodletting serves as their mental and physical urge for copulation. Vampires don't marry each other but instead have extremely strong emotional bonds with each other and thier own fledglings (when you create another vampire they become your fledgiling) They stay together for an indefinite period until an unknown force breaks their emotional connection. This makes for some fascinating relationships that almost seem like "couples" but without the physical relationship. These bonds are often between same gender vampires and sometimes include three or four vampires. All these interesting parameters make for an web of relationships that frequently change. The biggest con of the series is that sometimes the prose drags on forever and certain parts could be shorter. They were all good, but actually I thought the fourth book was the best and it was also the shortest. Bottom Line: An entertaining series that will be most enjoyed by experienced readers and fans of romantic self indulgent nuerotic blood suckers.
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Summary: The Complete Vampire Chronicles
Review: Anne Rice is one of the most sensuous writers I've ever read in my life. I began reading her work because my best friend introduced me to it. She identifies herself with Louis but I identify myself with Lestat. He has such a lust and passion for life, live with his resident evil and feeds on the lives of others. His lust for life and passion for people and creativity is infectous. I've read some of Mrs. Rices' interpretations of her own work and she has admitted that Lestat is her alter ego of sorts. He is charming, sauve, poetic, mysterious and passionate. She sets up these beautiful tales with Louis' opinions of Lestat then he feels the need to defend himself. His ego takes over and he feels compelled to continue with his magnificent tales that sometimes haunt all of our deep psyches. If you have read these chronicles I suggest you continue with "Memnoch the Devil" again written by Lestat and then "The Vampire Armand" written with the help of David Talbot (a character you meet in "Queen of the Damned"). Amazing works of fiction rarely come around this often, take the opportunity to immerse yourself in Lestat's dark world.
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Summary: Queen of horrors!
Review: Over the years, I have read all of Anne Rice's books. As I go through the series, I find that she dives deeper into the great divide. In the beginning, you have Lestat and Louis, but as you further your journey, Rice brings about other more interesting characters. I have often wondered what ever happened to Louis. He seemed to have disappeared after his brief visit in the Body Theif. As you go on, Memnoch messes with your brain because he is so difficult to understand. It took me almost a year to finally finish it. I kept on throwing it aside because it was a difficut read. I am one not to put a book down until I am finished with it. Anne's witch series created a whole new world. A world where witches are good. It goes the same with the vampire series. I felt like I wanted to be a vampire because of the way she portrayed the life of one. Overall, I am thrill to death with her writing, and is always looking forward to thatnew book. I have recently bought Armand, and can't wait to read it. Keep them coming Anne.
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Summary: Great series, however with declining quality
Review: I've had plenty of time to read the Vampire Chronicle Series during a stay in hospital. I was quickly addicted to the Interview and swallowed the Vampire Lestat as nearly as fast and hungry. Whereas in the first book Anne Rice shows a lot of feeling in their characters (you really look into their soul and feelings), I got the impression that in the following books she more and more goes into a more superficial "story-telling" mode. Everything needs to be explained (where do we come from) and the story goes way back into history. In the "Queen" this becomes close to ridiculous with the story of old Egypt becoming a hot topic. Also, she introduces lots of additional characters that - in my opinion - do not serve the story and the plot. My appetite on each of the books in the collection decreased from book to book and maybe it is a Good Thing that there aren't more of them. I'd recommend the Interview very highly, the Vampire Lestat close to it, but the last two are but a shadow of the first ones.
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Summary: Vampiristic? No, Rather...
Review: These stories making up The Vampire Chronicles are not about vampires, really, as one might first perceive. The main characters, and really all of them, are vampires, yes, but there is a much, much deeper essence to the stories. These books are not about vampires, but about understanding of life, love, loss, and survival of mind. If you want to look at it like this, you could say that these stories are about regular human life, human strugle and human passion. The only differences are that the stories are dragged out over hundreds of years, and they contain the understandings of generations and generations, and feelings and understandings are magnified by thousands to attain the grove of vampire characteristics.
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Summary: The Anne Rice Collection of Stuff that Doesn't Suck.
Review: Though not complete, add to it Pandora & the 1st half of Armand & THEN you have her "glory before the fall." Personally, if you like the ones I mentioned & don't like any I didn't mention, PLEASE take my advice & don't read her latter works...or the 2ed half of Armand. Like millions of others, you'll live to regret it. These were the GOOD books that made me wish she'd never taken action against her fanfic writers. (they had better sequils)
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Summary: miracleableous.... one star for a woman
Review: Anne, I think you are so succesfull but not than your characters.
I recommend to all people Lestat and Marius. They are full of knowladge and blood like father & son. I wonder why the mother is (Lestat's) so backgraunder? She is the woman that everywoman wants to be her, full of more blood.
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