Interview with the Vampire

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Summary: A very unnerving and disturbing book.
Review: Interview With The Vampire is one the greatest books I have ever read. Its second only behind The Shining. Her incredible detail and shades of gray with Lestat, Armand and Claudia makes the book a slow one that you can't put down. Read this book if you have anytime.

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Summary: loved it!
Review: This book was really good; it had a lot of action (blood and guts!), romance (not 2 mushy), lovable characters, and deep thoughts. I like the was Rice did not dumb down any of the language, most horror books today don't contain words with more than one syllable. It was full of Louis's thoughts and feelings but they didn't make the story boring, they added to the tension of the action scenes. I would recomend this book to everyone!

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Summary: A one-of-a-kind tale
Review: Anne Rice's IWTV offers a different view on vampires. Instead of them being the antagonist characters, they are the protagonists. You feel sympathy for the main charater, Louis dePointe-Du-Lac. You feel his constant suffering and agony reach the core of your being. Louis is a very simple charater. Then enters Lestat, the maker of Louis. His is a selfish,complex character, full of pride for himself. Lestat motivates readers to go deeper into the story to understand why he does the things that he does, and why he thinks the way that he thinks. Claudia, another very important character in IWTV, is the young five year-old vampire beauty. Hers is a disturbing, yet unforgettable tale. IWTV is simply mesmerizing, letting readers go where they have never gone before.

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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Rich, Lush, Wonderful! They say Louis is too weak to put people in a trance but he sure did with his story. This is Anne's best book ever. I couldn't put it down. This book belongs up there as one of the best Vampire novels ever written. I saw the movie first before buying the book. I fell in love with Louis in the movie and when I read this book I got a whole different verison of Louis and fell in love with him all over again. I highly recommend this book for anyone, whether you love Vampires or not.

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Summary: Engrossing
Review: I had to read the book a second time to figure out why I loved it, and the answer was not so simple. First, we have to admit that there's not much of a plot, but it's a page turner. It's not clear what the main character wants, but we are drawn to him. He commits many reprehensible acts, yet we root for him. The book works because Rice is a seductress with a pen. We must read on because she has made our worst nightmares, the undead, sympathetic. She humanized them. They are not monsters. They're just regular guys (not really) who are trying to tell their stories.

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Summary: a classic of the genre
Review: The idea of being a vampire is a seductive one i.e. being young and living forever. What Anne Rice's classic novel does though is go beyond the superficial idea and shows the reality of what it would really be like to be a vampire. It tells the story of Louis who after his brother's death is turned in to a vampire. He soon grows to hate the vampire Lestat who made him what he is. In the story he moves from New Orleans to the old world in his search for others like him. He searches along with the girl vampire which he has created. His search takes him to Paris Rice in the story creates some of the most memorable characters in vampire fiction in the tortured Louis and the girl vampire Claudia. The most disturbing part of her is her age: she is six. In the movie it is doubled to twelve, but she is better in the book than the film (despite Kristen Dunst's excellent portrayal of her in the film). Rice manages to show with her writting that although her body may remain a child's her eyes show her real age. There are undertones of homeo eroticism in the relations of Lestat, Louis and Armand, but the central theme running through the book seems to sadness. The feeling saturates the whole book. Anne Rice should be commended for making a true classic of the genre and making her vampires much more than mere killing machines. She makes her vampires all too human and that is her masterstroke

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Summary: I'm hooked.
Review: This book is a beautifully written tale of the vampire named Louis. It talks about how he became a vampire and how he dealt with the issues of killing, serviving, love and loss, and looking for other vampires so that he can learn about what he has become. He has other conflicts because of his resentment of Lestat, the vampire that made him. There are other interesting vampire characters as well. It is a great story with some romantic settings in places like New Orleans and Paris.

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Summary: How did this book ever become popular?
Review: Does anyone actually speak this way? I've never read a book with weaker characters or more boring (and unrealistic) dialogue. Stay away from this complete waste of time.

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Summary: Haunting
Review: I did not think this book would appeal to me, But then on a cold dreary march day I picked it up and could not put it down!!! What a great book!!! Beautifully written and that is what grabs you and does not let you go.

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Summary: Left me breathless
Review: I just finished reading this phenomenal book for the third time, and it still haunts me like the first time. The story has a way of staying with you, of making you think, of altering your world view. It is right at the top of my all time favorite books, and was the beginning of my love affair with dark novels. Intelligent, gothic, lush, and involving. In a word, Unforgettable.