Interview with the Vampire

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Summary: One Vampire's look at his own unlife.
Review: Vampires. Creatures of Legend. Hunters in the night. Are they really the fiends we think them to be? Follow one vampire's look at his existance through his own ever-judging eyes from death to rebirth and beyond. See the world from the view of a dark assassin as he tries to come to terms with his own existance, as we take a look at our own life in turn. Anne Rice spins a wonderful tale around these mysterious death angels, in a wonderful first novel of the Vampire Chronicles.

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Summary: Goth Schlock & Vampire Kitsch
Review: It's unconceivable that a novel this painstakingly dull and anemic could become so successful. Rice's plodding, unbearable exposition signals that she's spent one too many nights in the crypt. This isn't gothic at all; it reads like a Dickens Halloween Carol, with cartoon vampires acting silly and pretentious. I think maybe Anne Rice missed her calling--she should have written travel brochures. Interview With a Vampire is one of the most plastic, contrived pieces of bloodsucking ilk ever written, and Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt did an outstanding job in accentuating its cardboard dullness in the film version

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Summary: Beautiful, seductive--a classic!
Review: Anne Rice's original novel of vampires, Interview With the Vampire is stunningly beautiful. If you have only seen the movie, you are missing about three quarters of the story and the wonderful emotion included in the book. As the story unfolds, the reader can watch the characters take on their own lives (or deaths) and become real. You see Lestat becoming hard to control, so obviously a part of the real world, like someone you might meet anywhere, yet someone you would never forget. You can see Louis' pain, his struggle with wanting to be good, but needing the evil of blood. In Claudia, the reader can see the pain of wanting to have a lost child back on any terms, no matter how severe for the child, then the final acceptance that the child is better off where she is, than to suffer an eternity of being evil. This novel is the best that has been written in years, and is definitely a classic. If you enjoy this novel, I recommend that you finish the series. If you enjoy the series, the

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Summary: revolutionary
Review: Anne Rice has created an entirely new universe of vampires with this novel. She has shattered the pre-existing notions and concepts of vampires that have been standing for centuries, and gave us a fresh outlook of the lives of the living dead. The creation, and ultimately, the death of the child-vampire, Claudia was a brilliant stroke in the book. It was a touch of genius. It is tragic that the movie version of this novel did not quite meet the standards of her novel, but nonetheless, the book in itself was fantastic

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Summary: A mezmerizing saga!
Review: I was inthraled by it.I couldn't pull my eyes away.I could almost smell the refreshing New Orleans air.If you only read one vampire novel it should be this one.Anne Rice is pure delitement.10 times better than the the movie.To read it is to surender to your own imagination.The best vampiric novle EVER

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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: I have read this book over five times. It is so wonderful to read a story where the vampire is just another soul trapped in a situation where is has very little control over it. Lestat is a so eccentric in his way of dealing with life and it many complications. Claudia is wonderful and very devious in her dealing with Lestat and his cruelties toward her and her "father" Louis. The book was so outstanding I could read it all over again. I am sure I will. Read the book and its companions. I love Anne Rice's book.

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Summary: Let your soul succumb to voluptuous mesmerism.
Review: Anne Rice takes us, through the darkness, into the depths of the human soul to find out the inmost desire of every human being: Immortality

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Summary: Interview was addictive, captivating, and seductive.
Review: Interview with The Vampire was the first book in my history of reading books to capture my mind and not let it out until the very end. It was immediately addictive and I found myself seduced by both Louis and Lestat, yet in very different ways. Louis's character played on my sympathy while Lestat met approval from my "dark side" if you will. Two chose one over the other I would have to go with Louis as his character first touched my soul when I picked up the paperback novel from a friend who simply said "Read this, you will love it"

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Summary: An adventure through the realms of human perception.
Review: As said so perfectly by the author (celebrated novelist Anne Rice), this book/movie is more about people than it is vampires. The feelings exposed in the marvelous and erotic content of the book explain human perception and thought all too well. Fear, rejection, guilt. The vampire Louis feels these emotions. As people ever-so-often do. I would recommend this book to anyone who has some soul-searching to do. There is much to be learned from the fantastical world of Anne Rice's vampires...

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Summary: Read the book that fueled the Gothic subculture.
Review: Who would believe in a world of darkness, hidden by eyes unwilling to see truth, in which vampires exist? Who of you would accept the existance of beings whose every thought was blood? Some call it fetish, some obsession, some necessity. You might be suprised how many believe. Some "Goths" seek to portray the horrors they have witnessed by dressing in black cloth, painting thier faces pale, and at times opening thier veins to offer release from the thirst. If these words conjure up unwelcome images, by all means close your eyes to shut out the night. Close your eyes and pray for the light. Many choose to be blind.