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Summary: I love this book
Review: Ok for starters I didn't expect to enjoy this book, and also I did what many very bad people do and I watched the film before I read the book. I thought the film was great until I read the book and then I realised that the raw sexuality of the text could ony come through in novel form. I adore the way Anne Rice decribes the taking of blood she does it without shame in the way that every other... book I've ever read describes a passionate... encounter. Claudia made me cry, she was so mixed up, without the experience of being treated as an adult, she had to stay a precosious child with a wise old woman's mind and somehow a woman's sex drive, her lust poured through the pages in the same way as Lestats like a thumping pulse. Louis, sweet innocent Louis who should never have been a vampire appreciated evey emotion he felt much ,more deeply than the other characters in the book, and analysed every thing said to him, I fell in love with him. If I met him I'd without hesitation agree to be his eternal partner. Never have I fallen in love with a book so deeply since Flowers in the attic. Pease read this book!
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Summary: Adding a New Level to the Foodchain!
Review: I was completely absorbed by this enthrallingly thought and provoking tale of the travels of Louis Pointe du Lac and the vampire Lestat. The way the story is told by Louis is so different. The 18th-century setting is vividly described, so that pictures are intricately painted in your mind. The story line is such a classical original which delves into deeply emotional and morale aspects of life and death. This story for me brings to mind a saying I once hear which I believe to be true. This saying goes along the lines of 'You had better really want what you want, because you might just get it!'All of the characters are intense, especially the tortured Louis who is refreshingly feeling and regretfully of immortal lot. As you read the story and learn more about Louis, you come to discover a passionate killer who is desparately trying to resist his cold blooded instincts. You can visualise Louis's eternal pain in his struggle to save the small piece of his soul that remains. In the character Louis, you can sense a feeling of total and utter isolation and frustration, because of his display of emotions to those who cannot comprehend them. Lestat is the perfect contrasting character to Louis. He is cold, calculating, oblivious self-obsessed and evil to the core. Claudia is a fascinating character as you roll through the story, and see her maturing from the innocent child victim who is chillingly preyed upon by Lestat, to the cunning and rebellious young woman who comes to the shocking realisation of her fate. Claudia's growing rage and discontent builds deliciously to fever pitch. These characters are all thrust into a 'red hot cauldron'of fascinting travels and murderous conquests throughout the years.
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Summary: whoever thought neurotic vampires would be so interesting?!
Review: While I tend to prefer sci-fi to gothic horror, I received such an enthusiastic endorsement of this book that I went out and bought it. From the very start, when Louis demonstirates his inhumaness by lighting a cigarette too quickly to be seen, I was utterly enthralled by Rice's characters, lumanescent prose, and long view on history. It is as if you entered 19C New Orleans and then Europe with curious, anguished inhuman observers. This book is so good that it should be considered literature rather than potboiler gothic horror. If you get into it, the book can turn you inward, to question your human life, from the neurotic and existential agonies of these inhumans. Warmly recommended.
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Summary: Should be around forever!
Review: i thought this book was great! Reading R.L. Stine's books, i wasnt scared at all but only felt sad because Louis, in a way, can't really die as he wishes to do so because of his brother's death and him blaming on himself for not listening to his younger brother Paul. It just shows you that sometimes when you wish for something, like maybe clothes, someone may give you something opposite of clothes. Just like Louis wished for death but instead he got immortality. I did not really like Lestat because he seemed a little vain.
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Summary: Anne Rice at her best
Review: This novel is a beautiful compilation of carefully chosen words and themes that recreate the world around us. Rice is able to balance intrigueing characters with rich description and history all the while maintaining suspense and interest which I find few authors can do well. Some may find the beginning slow and be tempted to give up. Don't. By the end of the vampire series you will know the characters as well as you know yourself and will not be disapointed.
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Summary: Pretty much exact same as movie
Review: I really liked the movie so this was pretty much everything i expected. If you are familar with the movie, I would suggest reading through this quickly to get to the second book called The Vampire Lestat because this book is just an introduction to the world of Rice's vampires. Positives: Story moves quickly, All main characters are developed to near perfection, interesting to read about bad guys from the bad guys perspective. Negatives: Very gory, lots of one or two page long paragraphs describing scenery,had a rather contrived ending that was never mentioned again in the next book.
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Summary: A vampire with a soul full of pain, a girl made or porcelain
Review: this book is very good, i really suggest u read it.. An interviewer following what he hopes is a good story, but Louie holding untold secrets is actually following his prey, the interviewer. Louie a normal human being lost in the depths of depression and accepts Lestats offer of an easy death, instead of no more pain not only his heart but also his soul is opened to everlasting torture. Revenge is taken for all his pain, although the price death for those who hear Louie's hidden screams of anger. He tells the reporter everything from when he was born, not born into the world, but reborn into an unknown world of eternal darkness. When Louie was reborn the world seemed as if it were suddenly uncovered. The statue moved, but yet it didn't, it stayed the same. When Claudia kills or at least thinks she's killed Lestat she did it for revenge because of him her crying soul was stuck in the body of a porcelain child forever. Hatred and pain is brought about again when Louie is locked in a bolted coffin, and Claudia with her vampiress of a stepmother burn to cinders and tears fall as dust once the burning sun takes it's rise. Armand saves Louie, but he does not won't to live without his darling Claudia at his side for eternity, but she is dead and the her last piece of being falling in his hands covering his cold skin with ash. Throughout this book events of pain events of horror all affect this sadden vampires soul, a vampire cries ever hundred years or so, but when he tells his story the tears come and fall with emotion.
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Summary: A classic
Review: This book is a classic! It sets the stage for the gothic night inhabited by Louis, Lestat, Armand and a host of others. The main character is a vampire by page 12, the rest of the book is how a moral man can cope with the price of his immortality. he is accompanied by Lestat, a rouge of a vampire, who has no moral qualms with his condition and cant understand why Louis hates his existance so. This sets the stage, embrace new found immortality or reclaim lost humanity...
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Summary: Anne Rice - The most interesting writer
Review: I liked this book very much, because I like vampire - stories very much. The relationship between Louis and Lestat is interesting. You may think that they have a sexual relationship. The book itself is written in a wonderful way. You can imagine haw Louis feels. He is so sad. He doesn't want to drink the blood of human beings but he has to. I feel a little bit sorry for him. In my opinion this book is great. For me Anne Rice is one of the most interesting writers.
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Summary: interview with the vampire
Review: Very interesting and action packed. Ms. Rice did an excellent job of description, not a thing is left to question. A very riveting book that I would definitely read again, and recommend to any vampire lovers out there.
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