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Summary: Possibly the BEST book I've ever read
Review: Anne Rice captures the very essence of life and death with her exquisite phrasing and elegant portrayal of her reticent hero. This book is stirring, mesmerizing, haunting and absolutely captivating. The people, the places, the anguish and adoration come to life with the first words and dance throughout each page, creating imagery that transcends most American literature
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Summary: Read this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I thought it was really good.I liked Claudia and Louie's relationship.The book was better than the movie
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Summary: Enthralling!!
Review: Anne Rice's _Interview with the Vampire_, like a vampire, sucks the reader in and does not let go! Rice does a wonderful job of blending both the old and new worlds together to create an intense and enjoyable novel. It has everything-- passion, romance, and betrayal
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Summary: The birth of a vampyric legend
Review: Interview With The Vampire is a must-reed for all vampire fans. It is a classic told from the point of
view of Louis, a vampire who would do anything to become something else.
But the real star of this novel is a sadistic vampire called Lestat (performed extremely well by Tom Cruise in the movie), who gives pain
and misery to poor old Louis. Every sentences in the
novel are written with poetic grace and strong emotions.
Who can forget young Claudia, that young vampire
with the lust for blood? Who could forger Pointe-du-Lac,
Louis' plantation or Lestat himself. This is a classic must-read
for all people who loves vampire novels. Read it today,
if you dare!!
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Summary: Too long and drawn out
Review: I found it dull and dry, and practically had to force myself to finish it for an assignment. Also, it was too homoerotic. Blech!!! Besides, she plodded along at a cow's pace
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Summary: Pseudo Gothic colorless prose with a ridiculous plot
Review: "Interview with the Vampire" reads like Shakespeare on acid. The language and structure of the writing is reminiscent of some of the great Gothic horror novels but falls far short of capturing their intensity. The plot moves along like a two legged turtle, however even a faster pace would hardly make up for the lackluster story and rather tedious detail to which the reader is subjected. Particularly frustrating was the continued use and reuse of pseudo biblical language. This book failed to capture either my imagination or even my attention. If you plan to read this book, make certain to allow for frequent breaks
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Summary: This book was the best book I've ever read!
Review: 4/11/97
I am 13 years old I was only 10 when I read this book.To some of you that may seem a little young but I have always been a little mature for my age.Interview With THE Vampire is Anne Rice's best book.The book where, with her talent,she shows us ''The real evil.''Rice has you weeping for Louis as he tells us of his tale and of his inner struggles with his ''mortal coil.''( from the movie)If you have read any of Rice's other stuff YOU AINT' SEEN NOTHIN' YET!If you've seen the movie or your thinking of going to rent it STOP RIGHT THERE!You MUST read the book first.
-Thank You-
G.C.R.
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Summary: Exquisite...
Review: This is *the book* that got me obsessed with vampires, andwith life. It is beautiful. Anne Rice's writing is wonderfully poetic and flowing, a style many of myfellow fans try vainly to mimic in stories - this book has created an ever-growing subculture of fans and vampire lovers. It is more than a book; it is almost a way of life. Amazing. -Twilight
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Summary: Anne Rice's story is simply amazing.
Review: Interview with the vampire is a sensuous story a about a vampire that discovered too late that there is something more terrible than death and it is eternity.
Anne Rice takes us in a travel through centuries and history, there reality and fiction blend to make this story more exiting and amazing. This place where
she takes us has no boundaries of time, place or space. The best of this story is that it leaves you wandering, thinking and begging for more. If you are one of those that think that Anne Rice's novel Interview with the vampire is more monster's stuff, you better think again
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Summary: Who says vampires don't see their reflections in the mirror?
Review: The prevailing plot line of almost every single horror story that has ever been told has revolved around the idea that the heros are the ones who are the victims of some terrible monster.
'Interview with the Vampire' changed the traditional idea of the "monster" by letting the creature of the tale be the hero for a change. There are hundreds of stories told from the point of view of frightened victims trying to kill a monster, but Rice's story is told from the point of view of the killer, the monster...the vampire.
But don't let yourself be fooled by the title. Although the book's hero is a vampire, the THEME of the book is not what one would expect. Although Rice makes the vampire into a seductive, beautiful, almost glamourous creature, she also shows the darker side of immortality. Before she began to delve more deeply into the "Vampire lifestyle" in her subsequent sequels, Rice examined the more troubling aspects of being a fledgling vampire...guilt, despair, and lonliness.
Rice shows that even death itself does not present one with all the answers of life, and that the problems of mere mortals still plague the minds of the supernatural. The narrator of the story, the 200 year old vampire Louis, who had come to dread life as a mortal, found something that he thought even more horrible than death itself...eternal life.
If you find yourself walking down the streets of New Orleans, and feel yourself being followed, but hear no footsteps, you may just be pursued by Louis or by the even more menancing Lestat. But armed with Anne Rice's new vision of the undead, rather than running away in fear, you might just find yourself slowing down to introduce yourself.
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