Interview with the Vampire

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Summary: excellent=10
Review: interview with the vampire was a very good story. If you read this book, then you will love the movie. read the book before you see the movie though so you can appreachiate the move better. you'll like the movie's ending better than the book anyway. The best aspect about interview is the fact that Louis is a tourtured soul who hates the fact that he has to kill. This book showed the "human" side of being a Vampire and that it does have a down side. I strongly recommend this book. You should read this before any of the rest ,especailly before the Vampire Lestat. Although I loved this book, Rice's other books in this saga only get better

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Summary: Read this!!
Review: I have just finished this book a few days ago and I must say that it is one of the best books I have ever read. My only regret is that I have to wait until next week before my local bookstore gets Vampire Lestat, the sequel. I have been interested in reading a 'Vampire book' for some time and I am so grateful that I chose this one.

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Summary: A matter of taste
Review: I personally loved the book but really it is a matter of taste. If you like superfical tales with little meaning, inevitable happy endings,incredibley fast paced books that lack intellect this isn't the book for you. If you liked the movie this book isn't for you. This book has a lot of meaning and if you can't handle that stuff don't read it. It shows a unique point of view (even if it is discredited in the later books) that makes humanity seem precious and beauty all the more treasured. So definetly don't read it if you like mindless horror novels. -EH

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Summary: A truly touching series...
Review: There isn't a foul word i can speak for Anne Rice's vampire Chronicles. I was literally swept away by the her enchanting words. I tasted, felt, heard, touched and hung on every last phrase. I found myself in Paris gazing around corners and examining shadows, as if Lestat, Louie, or Claudia might just peer back. Never before has a novel meant so much to me or touched me so deeply. Anne is a goddess in her own right.

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Summary: Anne Rice....The gothic Genius.
Review: Anne Rice is a terrific writer.I've read every book in the chronicles, and people who see this book as drab,boring or otherwise,are quite simply not READING the book.Anne Rice doesn't write for the average TV worshipping joe.SHe writes her books in a manner that actually makes a reader think.People who behave in such harshly negative ways aren't seeing the romantic side of these works.

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Summary: This was a emotionaly provactive book.
Review: This book was emotional in a sense that you would become attached Claudia the young Vampire. Its wordiness gives this book a good rating. It helps to make the imagination roam and one could become indulged in this book. Although Louis wines a lot an Lestat is actually telling him the truth on not knowing anything you run into incidents where you question the validity of the two. Never had I read a book of Vampires that seems so real. This is a well written book and well worth your time.

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Summary: Truly Splendid
Review: In reading previous reviews here, I have to say that I was surprised. Before the movie came out her books were true classics, but now with the movie out all these people lost respect for her. Sure it is not a horror book in the strictest sense, but it is a work of literary art. People who consider anyone who creatively produces a work " boring" need to examine their souls and see how closed they are to others artistic expressions. The first time I read was BEFORE the movie, and I felt cold chills throughout every page.

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Summary: O my God - I love this book!!!!!!!!
Review: NOT!!! OK - it was just boring. There was too much about the tedious vampires like Louis, who is just pathetic, and all the others, who are sad. Don't read it, and don't end up like some kind of schizo who falls in love with Lestat. See the movie, if you want to, or if you fancy Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise (warning - they both look like drowned rats in this film, and consequently pretty rough), or Christian Slater. OK - that's it. Adios amigos (I'm not Spanish, by the way)

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Summary: Put a stake in this book!!!
Review: I am a real fan of horror books and went into this book looking for a good read. I kept reading and reading and the story plodded on and on. I don't know if was Rice's style, the story, or what. I would keep going back to read it, to give the book a chance, but finally I just stopped reading and never finished it. I found the book boring and dull. I eventually wanted to put a stake in this book to put it out of its misery!

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Summary: Dislike Anne Rice?
Review: Many people intensely dislike Anne Rice's work, they hate her style, her subject matter,and the fact that she doesn't write horror stories, but tales about 'monsters' who are surprisingly like us. They laugh like us, cry like us and they suffer the same insecurities and delusions that we do. Or maybe,these critics just don't like the thought that they may not be at the top of the food chain,after all! All joking aside, this is what "Interview" and all the other novels are really about,food for thought. What more can one ask from a novel;spellbinding imagery and a literary style that transports the reader into another century, a disturbing walk in anothers' footsteps and an insight into the soul of the damned.