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Summary: the best anne rice book ever!
Review: this book is about a vampire (louis) who clames to be a 200 year old vampire. so he gets a reporter to interview him, hense the name interview with the vampire. so he goes on about his first stage of manhood into his stages of becoming a vampire. and if you like this book and I know you will the second book in the series is the vampire lestat.
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Summary: I love this one!...
Review: This is the book that started a new wave in literature. Ann Rice spins a very convincing tale of 18th century vampires. Read this book and then start the rest of the books, without it you will be lost. Remmeber to check out the movie too.
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Summary: Interview With the Vampire
Review: (note: I give this 3 1/2 stars) An oddly captivating read , "Interview with the Vampire" is probably the best book I've ever read about the 18th century. This said, I really haven't read any books from that time that would be better that 2 stars. Knowing me I probably would not have finished this book, were it not for the fact that I really wanted to read the next books, taking place in the present. I attempted to read "Queen of the Damned" (book III) before I got this, and let me tell you, I've never been so confused! Well, back to the topic at hand. There are many scenes that continue on for far too long, and descriptions that last up to 2 1/2 pages. Furthermore, there are no chapers, exactly, so it's fairly difficult to find a decent stopping point. The best part of the book is the addition of Claudia, a 5-year-old girl who hold a true lust for killing. Basicly, if you want to read The Vampire Chronicals, don't try reading the best first: start here.
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Summary: Find out what all the fuss is about!
Review: Admittedly, I'm not as big a fan of Anne Rice as I used to be. But this is the book that started all the hype--and it is excellent! I enjoyed the movie too, but the book is 100% better!
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Summary: Love this!
Review: I seriously love this book. This had me hooked from the first page. I couldnt put it down. The story is just incredible and leaves you craving more, especially with that ending. i'll give nothing away but you'll be thankful that it is such an expansive series once you finish the first.
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Summary: Great read!
Review: I recieved this book for Christmas and i was a bit scepticle since i'd never been a big fan of vampire-based fiction. however, after reading the first couple pages, i was hooked. this book is thoroughly enjoyable whether you enjoy vampire stories or not. this book is not just about vampires... it unearths a lot of things we don't want to believe about the human condition. the reason i gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that it is somewhat slow during certain parts of the story. i would definitely suggest this story to anyone who enjoys curling up with a good book!!!!
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Summary: Absolute page turner!
Review: What an original, gripping story! I was guessing the whole way through and wondering what was going to happen next. I did feel there was a lag about 2/3rds of the way through that could have been sped up or delete.
I'm normally a high action, sci-fi/fantasy reader. This had very little or no "action" but was so well written it kept me going to the last page. I'm going to read the next two books before Queen of the Damned movie comes out...that is how much I enjoyed it.
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Summary: THE BOOK TO DRAW YOU IN.
Review: this, being the first in the vampire chronicles, will be your first taste of a whole new caliber of the written word. You find yourself feeling every emotion, every pain every triumph of the characters. after reading this, one cannot but help to pick up the next book, then the one after, ect...
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Summary: An occult adventure; a philosophical masterwork...
Review: The problem with INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is that it's written by Anne Rice. What? Hmm...The author's preoccupation with vampires (witches; mummies; secret societies)and sexual/power aberrations she incessantly(tiresomely?)explores throughout approximately a dozen "occult" adventures may obscure that INTERVIEW is a masterwork. Much of her writings are horror tales dwelling on perversity and characterizations that elevate wickedness and sado-masochism to "sacramental" status. She is consummate chronicler of Post Modernist/Deconstructionist (view-to-a-kill)mythology of INHUMANITY. Her novels declare contemporary profanation of the sacredness of life. Her vampires are men and women (even children)of rank appetite; creatures made-in-their-own-Image(not GOD'S); consequently pitiful, disgusting MONSTERS(even to themselves)...INTERVIEW, however,is unique. First and vastly superior to subsequent efforts, Rice's novel could have been written by Kierkegaard himself. IWTV is existential fable. It explores essential dimensions of the human conditon with an INHUMAN thing and UNDEAD-Life of predatory purpose to mirror the loss of SPIRITUAL Purpose that has informed mankind for the past 4000 years... "LORD: You have made us for Thyself; Our hearts are FOREVER RESTLESS until they rest in Thee", asserted St. Augustine. His metaphysic of spiritual angst and "entelechy" driving it afforded Soren Kierkegaard themes of FEAR & TREMBLING defining existential philosophy. Anne Rice has pushed the latter to a perverse yet ILLUMINATING exploration...and incarnation...of THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH:(post-Modern)VAMPIRISM. Rice reinvents DRACULA. The Vampire Count was driven by "Will-to-Power" as Anti-Christ. Yet the Vampire King feared God. Rice's "Children of the Night", with the singular exception of Louis in IWTV,truly fear and LOVE Nothing including themselves).INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is startling. It explores "poena damni"(Pain of Loss;eternal punishment in Hell)of POST MODERN (souless, nature less men; women; and children-- fetal-existents)"creatures". Anne Rice's CLAUDIA...a vampire "trapped" in the body of a six-year old girl with both killing instinct of a predatory monster and desires of a woman...is the most terrifying literary creation I've ever encountered. She is POST MODERN incarnation of anti-Logos, dramatically and wickedly actualized... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is occult adventure. Anne Rice's baroque style is elegant and decadent; lush and poetic. It WORKS. She creates a hellish nether world on Earth, and invites you to the abyss.Unlike the rest of her work...where "decadence welcomes decadence"...INTERVIEW is Different. Louis is a hero...though he is "defeated". Lestat is still acknowledged for what he is: a narcissistic fiend; yet ultimately helpless and hopeless despite THE GLAMOUR OF EVIL.This book is a fearsome study of contemporary man in battle against HIMSELF for survival of his nature and goodness. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is philosophical masterwork and literary stunner.....
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Summary: Beautifully Written
Review: A wonderful first step in the Vampire chronicals! Louis is beautiful, Lestat is addicting and the young Claudia is a complement to the rest of the books. And to those who think that it was dissapionting, boring, unuseful and a waste of time all I have to say is that I think thats your way of saying that you were to STUPID to see the beauty and cultured art of this novel. I am still in high school and I found this book particularly interisting and it encouraged me to read the reset and I hope that we will see much more of these liberating books.
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