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Summary: Existential Angst
Review: Rice's first novel is also her best. She'll write one better, someday, when she finally nails her vampires' coffin lids shut and moves on.Gentleman plantation owner Louis wants something more out of life - like, for it to go on longer than it does. He suffers from terrible ennui, and an even greater desire to never die, even though life's pleasures aren't all that satisfying. Enter Lestat, an elusive vampire who offers Louis what he can't resist: eternal life. Too bad it wasn't really all it was cracked-up to be. This is an incredible book. That it is a horror story is merely incidental. What this novel is really about is man's search for meaning, and his desire to uncover his own origins. At her best, Rice explores the question of immortality, and all it implies. Her vampires are perfect spokespeople for the theme: being immortal, they no longer have any need to procreate, and become stagnant, decadent and mad. The more philosophical among them, like Louis, seek greater meaning - but none is to be found. The vampire's greatest curse is boredom. Some cure it through suicide; others, like Lestat, through the perversity of evil diversions. Perhaps the greatest character creation Rice ever achieved, and one of the more interesting ones in all of literature, is Claudia, Lestat's crowning masterpiece of twisted ingenuity: a pre-pubescent vampire, who psychologically matures even as her body is frozen perpetually in youth, and who becomes the most evil of creatures, in frustrated desire, as a result. This book should be a text for modern philosophy classes. It's really brilliant, in every way. As a story, it reads incredibly well, but the whole is so much more than a mere story. Don't miss this one.
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Summary: Poor Louis de Point duLact!
Review: This book has to be one of Rice's most captivating books. She starts the Vampire Chronicals off with a bang with this sad, yet exciting tale of Louis de Point duLac's life as a vampire. You will become captivated and form a bond with duLac as you go on throughout the book. I applaud Rice on this magnificant tale and think that everyone should read it, no matter what culture, race or area you are. Wheather you're rich or poor you must read this book!
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Summary: One of the best stories ever
Review: Interview with the vampire is about a vampire named Louie who talks about his life to a boy who is an interviewer. During the interview, the boy is frightened in the beginning by the vampires appearance. But the vampire tells him not to be frightened and he begins telling his story who he was in the beginning and how his life changed when he became a vampire. To me, reading this book felt like an adventure. I almost felt that I wasthe character dealing with who I became, and watching how the world changes over the years.
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Summary: Love at first bite...
Review: This is quite possibly the best vampire book ever written. I can't even put into words how brilliantly written this novel is. Anne conveys the excitement, the pain and the conflict that the undead of this story feel. Their world is vivid, deep and never ending. One of the best in her series and I have read it 3 times. Pay no attention to the movie, the story is different and much more fullfilling in the written version. Highly recommend this to anyone looking to cut their teeth in the vampire world.
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Summary: *stunned* its AWESOME!
Review: First off-this book was great-I was hooked from page one and now I'm at the point of doing anything to "meet" one of them-if that were possible anyway. Anne Rice makes the story come alive and she does a great job in making us think that there could possibly be vampires etc. among us ("woo-hoo!!!") The book is about Louis, who at first is mortal, and he tells his tale to a mortal, who is an interviewer (i forgot his name-ahh-sorry-he is usually referred to as "the boy") and Louis tells the story of his life and how he became a vampire (he was made into a vampire by Lestat) and he tells about his love for Claudia (a doll-like 6-year-old who feels like a daughter to him) she was also made into a vampire. I think that its a great book and I recommend it to everyone (12+ tho-because there are some scenes that I wouldnt think to be appropriate for anyone younger) I even went out and borrowed the movie from a friend after I read it-AN AWESOME BOOK!! GREAT JOB ANNE RICE!!
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Summary: The book that started it all!
Review: I love this book! Anne Rice is a terrific writter, and has amazing talent. Her history is wonderful. Louis, a two hundred year old vampire, tells how his un-dead life has fared. She introduces characters who will be in her following books. I absolutly fell in love with Louis, and Lestat, and Anne Rice's writting. Read this book!
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Summary: Think Dracula's The only Vampire out There?
Review: Guess again baby. There's a whole other world of vampires that you could only dream out until Anne Rice put pen to paper and Louis came out to all the world spilling secrets of vampire lore in this the first of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicals. This truely was an eye opener for me. I read it at age 18 fresh out of high school looking for something other than plan old romance novels to read. I was initially shocked that someone would write about vampires as people with feelings, emotions coupled with Anne's love of history. I found it to be exciting and romantic. But i must be truthful there is a lull in the middle of the book to watch for but give it a try you will like it. Even if you hate the movie.
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Summary: WOW
Review: If you haven't read this book, you're cheating yourself! It's brilliant and poetically beautiful from beginning to end. It takes a truly extraordinary writer to create characters of such strength and evil, and then depict them with such depth and vulnerability that the reader falls in love with them, despite the heinousness of their existance. Anne Rice writes with a grace and elegance that is spell-binding. This story is truly incredible.
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Summary: Great Intro to the world of vampires!
Review: This book has you wanting more. It has great detailing in every way it wont leave you wondering just wanting to read more and more. The story develops so greatly its like your ticket to a whole new world of fantasy. As soon as you finish this book you will be hooked on the vampire series (The Vampire Chronicles). This book completely gives you your first taste of real action, adventure and mystery.
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Summary: Fantastic Introduction to one of my favorite book series
Review: I've always thought that, just as H.P. Lovecraft deals with the macrocosm (i.e., outside ourselves- cosmology), Anne Rice is his equal when it comes to the nature of a person.
It is ironic that, when we read about these vampires and how they feel, we learn more about human nature, and ourselves.
This book deals with an interview with a vampire (surprise) named Louis, and chronicles his descent into the hidden vampiric world with the one who made him a vampire, Lestat. If you read this and like it you must continue reading the other books.
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