Interview with the Vampire

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Summary: This book is wonderfully engaging
Review: Interview with the Vampire is an modern classic. It incorporates the vital elements for a well written fiction novel: suspense, action, unusual love triangles, and most importantly, a wonderfully thought out and written plot. Anne Rice makes even the immortal seem lovable and the reader develops a bond with the characters, from the mortal loving Louis, his ill-fated "blood" daughter Claudia, to the unpredictable character of Lestalt. This book leads the reader through a page turning tale that leaves them wanting more. The setting, the highly mysterious, passionate, and voodoo infested 1700 New Orleans, wets the readers hungery appitite for the story of Louis, his mortal death and early ecounters with his "blood" relatives of the undead.

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Summary: Spctacular
Review: I am not a vampire nor do I claim to be one. This book makes you feel like louis is your friend. You feel drawn toward Claudia as louis was. When you put the book down you can't help but think about your friends and their great dilemas. This is a book for anyone who has ever wished to feel trully alive.

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Summary: Immortality as poetry!
Review: This book forces one to realize the profundity of existence and the awesome power of love -- or some facsimile thereof -- in the face of death -- constant death. In addition to being darkly and beautifully descriptive, Interview is a great read that will challenge some to question vampires' existence along with their own.

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Summary: Fantastic, but ignore the movie!
Review: I read Interview about 13 years ago when almost no one had heard of Anne. The idea was unique, the story development compelling, and character development brillant. If you can ignore the build-up around the vampire series and especially the movie, and imagine the characters and settings independent of the hype than this book is simply brillant.

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Summary: Louis! Take a walk on the beach!
Review: Anne Rice has a way with words. There are scenes in this book which are incredibly vivid and stand out in your memory (whether you like it or not). Many people will tell you about the homoerotic undertone in this book; the only reason they might count as "undertones" is because people are pretty blind unless there is a direct, lurid sex scene. We are dealing with one of the worst-matched couples of all time. Lestat is one of the most fascinating anti-heroes I have read about in a long time. Louis, conversely, is a whiner. Hey, catch a clue, Lou! If you don't want to be a vampire anymore, just leave off the sunblock on the beach! Stop agonizing and get over it! Of course, as we see in this book, it is a lot more difficult than that. It's next to impossible to kill a vampire. Just ask Lestat. For imagery I give this book good marks; for Lestat, also good; for Louis, nothing. For plot, well... I guess there was one...

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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I adore Miss Rice's "The Witching Hour" and so curled up for what I thought would be an equally good read. What a disappointment. The writing is quite banal, and unlike some of her other writings you never get the opportunity to know the characters in any depth. I was so disappointed that I didn't finish the book, which is rare for me.

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Summary: I can't dicribe how stupid this book is.
Review: If I could find a worse book I would. The sentences are so long winded and boring.You can't tell where the discription ends and the story begins.

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Summary: I wish there were a "no star" rating.
Review: "Interview With the Vampire" is a poorly written novel with a silly story as its basis. Only people who think they are vampires (or wish they were) will be be able to look past the fact that Rice has passed off one of those $2.99 romance novels as a weighty piece of fiction by simply making the characters "VAMPIRES!" As a native of Louisiana, I bought the book as a matter of pride. The story is set in our fairest gem, New Orleans (for at least part of the time) and so many New Orleanians gushed with praise over Rice's "Vampire Chronicles". Now I wish Anne Rice had chosen Hoboken or Carson City or anywhere else but here as her home.

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Summary: I can't blame you if you dislike this, but I love this book!
Review: What can I say? Anne Rice captures your heart. She makes everything seem realistic and altogether too human that you feel like this could really be happening in the world we live in today. Everything about the characters have a sort of... well, complicated inner soul going for them. But I guess if you are THAT old, you must be complicated by then. While going through my mother's bookshelf, I ventured across this book, and I saw the title. I had heard of the movie, so I decided to check out the book. So I read it, and I loved it! So, I continued and read all of the series. Trust me, if you like drama and intense scenes and a touch of romance, this book has it all!

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Summary: Very good with a totaly different perspective .
Review: I thought the book was very good, not to mention interesting. I have read many vampire books in my life and find this one of the best. Who else but Anne Rice would have come up with a book with a book like this. The whole series has vampires as something other than bloodthirsty animals.