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Summary: The best of the vampire books.
Review: Interview with a Vampire is probably the best of Rice's vampire series. We learn of Lestat an older and immortal French vampire living in French New Orleans, and newly made Louis, a young French planter. Their affair might be homosexual if vampires did anything sexual but in Rice's vampire world sex is virtually unthinkable, they're dead you know. Louis never can make up his mind to be the vampire he is, feeling guilt feelings and drinking chicken or rat blood instead of killing humans. In his misery he makes a girl into a vampire, against the vampire rules. She will forever be a child, because she's dead doncha know. Louis and the girl set off for Europe to find the history of Vampires. It's well written, believable, and entertaining.
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Summary: I don't understand the hype
Review: How can so many people like this book? Anne Rice is one of the most pretensious authors I've ever had the displeasure of reading. This book became tedious in less than a hundred pages, and because downright unbearable after Claudia came in.Ms. Rice drags out every scene, making even the most trivial actions a ten-page angstfest. I suppose she thinks it's giving the book depth, but it just made me bored. Really, there are a lot of better books on vampire fiction out there. I suggest you seek them out.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: As a vampire lover myself, i found this particular book intriguing. it is more focused on one Vampire's life and his pain is felt through his own voice. The main character, Louis's uniqueness somehow grabs me. To anyone craving an absolutely wonderful book that will keep you on your toes and thinking, I highly recommend this book. To anyone who has not read one of Anne Rice's books, please do not hesitate, you will not be dissatisfied.
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Summary: Introduction to the world of Vampires
Review: Brilliant work introducing us to the world of the Vampire: sensuous, ambitious, and eager for knowledge of the origin. Louis' quest for knowledge takes him away from his controlling mentor, Lestat, and New Orleans into the realm of the Old World vampires like Armand. Anne Rice gives each of her vampires an almost human character and personality, proving that even the living dead can be more human than human. Absolutely a must read.
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Summary: Probably a new style.
Review: Someone may think that's a horror type story, but to be honest it's something different. It's a new style, probably deeper that horrors, which are suppose to cause fear. This book has the special climate, and after reading it, you'll probably: a) want more, b) won't touch another book in weeks, because you don't want to lose the atmosphere, c) you'll read the book 100 times... (don't ask where i know that from...) It causes many kinds of feelings, unlike other book i've recently read. I will never forget it... (and i'll probably read it for the 101st time ;) )
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Summary: Interview with the Vampire
Review: i think that the book is the most wanderfol book
ilike this kind of book cos it mekmy live in anather world
this book discribe evry ting very good
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: I first became Rice obsessed in the 10th grade when I first read this novel. I specifically remember finishing it one week before the movie was released. I read it a few more times throughout the years and had to read it again this past spring for a class I took on vampire mythology and was reminded of just why I love this novel.
This novel isn't really about vampires, but about humans. The philosophical aspects regarding life/death/heaven/hell/good/evil/G-d/mortality brought up with this novel are amazing and I still find it hard to believe that I can still recite a particular passage Armand tells Louis about "how many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?"
I would like to re-read all of the Vampire Chronicles to gauge my reactions to it now compared to when I first read them. Still, this is Rice's masterpiece. I'm very interested in the vampire subculture from an anthropological perspective, so if the story seems appealing, I'll probably give it a read. I wasn't too impressed with Stoker's Dracula (I can feel the stakes being sharpened already) and didn't feel the pull to continue on with the Anita Blake series I started as a book report for the same vampire mythology class. I'm not saying all of Rice's novels are excellent, but this one is, in my opinion, the best of her collection.
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Summary: An amazingly emotional ride
Review: I had watched the movie long long ago, and my best friend (a horror fanatic) was obsessed with the book series, so I decided to read the first book. I couldnt put it down, and read it in three days. Anyone that has posted 1 star for this book should not be an influence if you want to read this book--they have no thrill for reading.
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Summary: Don't read this book!!!
Review: I received this book as a Christmas present and was excited to read it. I did not like the way it made me feel while I read it and my wife thought I was acting strangely during that two week period. I had no religious convictions at the time of reading but still felt that it was inspired by evil and it still leaves me with a sick feeling in my stomach. I will read no more of Anne Rice's novels as result and recommend against reading her work.
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Summary: I didnt like it
Review: 'Interview With The Vampire' by Anne Rice, I found this novel as something I wish that I did not read, but I decided to read it, and personally she is a master of the vampire, but this novel was my only Anne Rice novel, and was my last. I found the story to be slow, there was a lot of human emotion in this book, but I am used to being scared by vampires (Salems Lot for example) and vampires are just supposed to kill, there are some scenes where they do feed, but vampires are not supposed to have emotion, they are supposed to be blood suckers who haunt at night, and terrorize the town like in Salem's Lot.
I guess that I just have a different seeing on vampires. Anyway, the story follows around Lewis, a rich man in the 17 or 18 century, I cant remember, then he meets this vampire, and he turns into one, and he lives his life. The story takes place in two places in two different times: San Francisco, present, and New Orleans 17 or 18 century.
Lewis lives his life like he was still human, but I found this book to be too full of nothing, there is nothing exciting in this book, it is just him talking, and talking, and talking. It gets real boring, REAL FAST! I dont know what people see in this novel, but then I am not a big fan of Anne Rice, and I never will be. I just think that I rather just stick to Stephen King's Salems Lot if I want a real good vampire novel.
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