Rating: Summary: All That And A Drop of Blood! Review: Vampires exist! At least, that's what the book manages to portray. Everything about this novel is mystifying. Rice manages to blend old world charm, sexuality, and sophisticated wording to transport the reader into a realm where Blood Drinkers dwell. You can't help but feel everything that happens to the main character Louis, the vamp. cursed with a conscience. From his making, to the Theater of the Vampires, to the death and rise of the devlish Lestat, this piece envelopes you in a dark web of deciet, love, hate, and of course, the sensuality of the immortal. If you feel the need for a good chill with a hint of blood, you must read this volume! After this one, the Vampire Chronicles will practically be calling your name! ENJOY!
Rating: Summary: Very interesting story Review: However, the narrative drags on and on, with very little dialogue. The story suffers somewhat because of the endless streams of narrative.
Rating: Summary: Enthralling! Captures you entirely! Review: I had seen the movie before and was hesitant to pick up the book as I was afraid I might not enjoy it after the movie. I am glad I decided to give it a try. I couldn't put it down. Ann Rice's prose flows so smoothly this vampire story has a wonderful literary tone to it.
Rating: Summary: Mesmerizing Review: It was a few years ago that I first spotted this book. I was babysitting overnight (I was still in high school), when I noticed it laying on an end table. It didn't look like something I would have chosen myself, but being an avid reader, not to mention incredibly bored, I picked it up. I closed it at 5am after reading the last word. This is a very visually stunning book. Yes, I truly mean that you see the action down to the last detail. It plays like a movie in your head. I was totally submerged in the gothic beauty of the story and the characters. I have read the other two books in the series and while all were great books, I'm glad "Interview" is the first. In my humble opinion it is the best. Even if "Interview" does not sound like a book you might enjoy, my advice would be to give it a try. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Rating: Summary: Absolutely enthralling reading! Review: This was the one of the best books Ann Rice has written. Having just finished the book I immediatly bought the rest of the chronicles. One by one you become more involved in the world of Lestat. I am now on the last of series. I can't believe this is the end. It can't be.
Rating: Summary: The Best of Anne Rice I've ever read! Review: Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the damned were definately (in my opinion) the best 3 books of Anne Rice's that I've read this far. I wish I knew the girl's name who recommended that book to me one faithful day when I was looking for another Stephen King book! I never thought that a book about vampires could be that intriguing or exciting to read but I was wrong! When I finished Interview, I went right out the door to buy The Vampire Lestat and when I finished reading Lestat, I went right out the door to buy Queen of the Damned. If I were to recommend just one book of Anne's for anybody to read it would be the first 3 of the vampire cronicles. Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the damned. Definately! I liked those 3 books so much that I have thus far read them cover to cover through 3 times! I've never done that with any other fiction work before. Absolutely fascinating! More fascinating than I could have possibly imagined! Thanks Anne!
Rating: Summary: It's so good they even made it a movie. Review: From the moment I picked up this book, I could not put it down. Some ways distrubing other ways sad, but still music on paper. It takes you through the vampire life of Louis, from New Orleans where he runs with his vampire child Claudia from their creator Lesat, to Paris where the Vampires see them as outcasts. Fantastic, and worthy of anyones time, it introduces you to Lesat, and after you finish Louis's tale you can start Lesat's in The Vampire Lesat, it's so good they even made it into a movie.
Rating: Summary: Fantastic!! Review: I thought this book was very well written. I takes you to a place in time that we can only dream of. Currently I am reading The Vampire Lestat. It is very good to. I only rated Inteveiw 4 stars because Icould put it down. I only rate books 5 stars if I could not put it down. But I should rate it 4.5. I don't like the new rating system though. I don't have enough stars! I wanted to read this book after I saw the movie. I loved the movie soooo much.After I saw it I begged my mom to take me to the book store. She did and my friend (J.Z.) and I read it at the same time. (Of course she finished before me.) But when you read this book you find yourself in a totally different world. You find your self saying: I don't this were in Virginia anymore, Toto! But you welcome this world just the same as if it wer home. But of course you have to take extra procautions about covering the neck areas but I am willing to do that. Well I will do one for The Vamp Lestat when I finish.- thank you!- BB
Rating: Summary: Forget Dracula! Review: I admit I saw the movie first, and I'm a world class Tom Cruise fan, but now I know why even Tom couldn't have done Lestat justice. (Sorry, Tom!) Rice knows what she is about, and the balance of the historical and the supernatural, the religious and the artistic is often just right in this story. For me now, after reading this book and tearing through all its successors as fast as I could lay my hands on them, the word "vampire" evokes images of Lestat or Armand much sooner than it does Dracula. Really, a masterpiece of a book, and all the friends I have recommended it to say likewise.
Rating: Summary: A great book to read - it will enrthrall you! Review: I can't believe that I waited so long before I finally read this book. I have since bought the rest of the chronicles and now have my summer reading set before me. I also have bought the Mayfair Witches chronicles also. Read this book. It fills in where the movie could not fully go.
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