The Tale of the Body Thief

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Summary: How we love Lestat
Review: Lestat appears again in this dynamic adventure story. The one willing to go all the way, whether death or doom surrounds him, he takes the risk and inevitably wins. Unfortunately his selvishness usually hurts, maims or kills (in one way or another) the ones he loves. One is appalled and enthralled by his antics in this non-stop adventure. Ms Rice has a great imagination or perhaps she perceives exactly the right illusion that we, her audience desire and crave for. The beauty of her characters and destinations are so alluring to human desire that we cannot but be swept away by them in our fantasies. Will Memnoch do the same thing for me or force to me to change tak. I suspect the latter. But I hope to be challenged never-the-less.

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Summary: I can't believe Lestat is so stupid
Review: Haven't you ever wanted to know what Lestat would feel like in a mortal's body??? Read about Lestat eating, having sex and going to the toilet...it's really fun!! Well i can't believe Lestat would trade his body with some mortal moron, thief and black magic sorcerer. Despite his stupidity ( I think he was supposed to act impulsive and daring so that it would endear him to us more but....) still at one point in the book (when he went into the mortal's body) i was glued to the page. The whole concept was very exciting. I didn't like all that stuff about God and the Devil I thought it was too trivial , the first three chronicles led me to belive that Rice held different views about all that etc.... To personalise God just debased it, made it silly but it didn't really spoil anything. I don't really like Lestat, he's a bit of an idiot, and he's always crying. I can't believe he just turned poor David into a vampire. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!! How can he do that?? What a bastard. I know that writing can be made more interesting when a character does something you wouldn't expect him to do but..please! I really liked the part when Louis and Lestat were sitting in the church and speaking softly. It was the most beautiful part in the whole book. Gretchen was such an idiot. Obviously she didn't believe Lestat in the first place. Overall I was slightly bored with pages that kept describing this and that...but I wouldn't dream of not finishing it because it was really very well written [as usual]. Lots of suspense, don't listen to people who say it's not good "because it's not a Vampire chronicle", who cares if it's a Vampire chronicle or not?? And there is a considerable amount of blood-drinking in this one if that's what you want.

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Summary: THE STUPIDITY OF THIS BOOK IS AMAZING AND STRANGE
Review: First off, Lestat is dumber than paint in this book. "Duh...I'll give this crook superhuman strength and immortality and duh...he'll give it back to me for a little bit of cash." Secondly, not only is Lestat dumb but the plot as well is getting out of hand. I mean, a BODYSNATCHER? really.

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Summary: Good but not as good as the other ones in the series
Review: This seemed kind of like a short story to me. It was good but I like the other ones better. There were alot of surprises in here, I didn't even really know what it was going to be about right away. But I think the only people that would really enjoy the book are those who have read the preceding novels which really stand out on their own. But it's still a good book.

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Summary: Maybe a little bit disappointing but it's a book to read
Review: The Chronicles of Vampire are really my favourite books. But I don't think that The Tale of the Body Thief is my favourite. I love it, of course, but the beginning is a little bit borring. I had some difficulties to enter in the story; even if after I devoured the rest of the book. What's more it may disappoint some readers because the story is not really in the line of the other Chronicles. My advice is to take the time to read it and don't give up in the first pages.

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Summary: One of Anne Rice's Best!!!!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the best of the Vampire Chronicles, second only to the original, Interview With The Vampire. In this book, the vampire hero Lestat is given the opportunity to change bodies with a mortal man for one week....thus setting the story for the entire book. Lestat is jointed by David Talbot, whom we met in the Queen of the Damned, and the two are led halfway around the world in a search for Lestat's body when the Body Thief, as we Lestat calls him, does not return Lestat's body as planned. There is one thing that I find odd though. Many times during this book and during many of her other books, Rice makes reference to the fact that the two vampires Mekare and Maharet are the eldest and most ancient of the vampire population. This is a false statement. For anyone who has read "The Queen of the Damned", you know that the eldest of the vampires is not Mekare or Maharet, but the Vampire Khayman. If you'll remember, Khayman was made by the very fist vampire, Akasha. Afterwards, Khayman made Mekare into a vampire, and Mekare makes her sister, Maharet into a vampire. So, just so everyone is aware, Khayman, not Maharet or Mekare is the eldest of the vampires. Other than that little quirk this book is top notc

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Summary: WHAT A TALENTED AUTHOR, AND A CHARACTER TO LOVE/HATE!
Review: I don't care what anybody says, vampire chronicle or no, this was certainly ingenious, clever, unique, suspenseful, scary, sexual, and very very thought-provoking. What you have is never what you want, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence..... and my opinion is that Lestat did what he did because he loved David. Isn't he always lonely after all? As the Vampire Lestat was even better (to me) but very different than Interview with a Vampire, so is Tales of the Body Thief different from all three vampire chronicles... each book stands on its own.

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Summary: Be careful what you wish for!
Review: This is by far one of Ms. Rice's most suspenseful books I've read so for!! I couldn't put it down once I got started. My antihero, Lestat, never seems to be able to resist his desires. And he never learns that they'll usually lead him in to trouble, even the possible fatal kind. But, he wouldn't be Lestat de Lioncourt if he always played things the safe way, would he? This is by far a book that could stand on its own. I will definitely need to read this again, and again, and again.....

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Summary: Well written, but not a VAMPIRE CHRONICLE!!
Review: Like I said, this book was extreamly well written. I love her prose, but I went into this book expecting a story about the past of a vampire, not the present of Lestat. And that's another problem: Lestat, again. She already ruined him by turning him into a "noble" killer. He was the vampire that we all loved to hate in Interview, but now, ugh. And then when she upped his power, even worse. Now we get to learn about all of his troubles and sacrifices when he becomes human again. The best thing she did was end the book with him going back and doing something that he would have done in the first book.

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Summary: Boring
Review: I'm too old and too weak to wade through such turgid prose