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Summary: immortal
Review: the book deserves 5 stars, and more. it's the best out of the vampire chronicles series. dark, tortuous, depressing, sensuous. FRESH. the first time i read it moved me to tears. the second time i cried again. maybe again the third time, and the time after that. it's a rare, great read. kind of sad that the author has been going downhills ever since this first brilliant start. if only her other books would measure up to IWTV, Anne Rice might truly be immortal as a literary figure.
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Summary: Kitty Box Fodder
Review: I read this book about six years ago. After the first 50 pages, as the plot began to bogg down, I quickly lost interest and quite frankly had to force myself to finish the book. My short review is as follows: unjustifyably long, unjustifyably long-winded characters (even for an interview), generally boring.
Nevertheless, in my desire to give this popular author another chance, I followed up with 'The Vampire Lestat' about a year later. My opinion of 'Lestat' was much the same. The endless babble and moralizing that seems to fill these Vampire's evenings would seem more appropriate to daytime drama than my idea of a good Vampire novel. These guys do get down to the business of really being Vampires, intermittantly, but only after seemingly enless interludes of historical meanderings back through the mists of time, as MS. Rice apparently trys to re-contruct the beginings of Vampirism. While this type of diversion might be of interest to some, I felt that it just slowed down the already anemic plot, derailled the storyline and made it all seem rather pompous and overblown! That's not what I want from a 'scary' novel!
But then again, maybe that's the whole idea - less plot/more filler/more meandering/more novels.
Anne Rice has indeed discovered the Button of commercial success and has determined to press it again and again without deference to artistic considerations nor any desire to create true litureature. I guess there is really nothing wrong with that, we all need to make a living. I guess I just expected too much. Maybe the movies can bring these dogs to life. In the mean time I'll be saving a little on kitty litter now that I've decidied to retire these two from my library.
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Summary: Disappointment!
Review: I read the others before this and frankly was disappointed while i love lestat and armand i found this book a let down. Louis is a whiney annoyin weak character who has no guts. Claudia unfortunately had her life ruined due to a stupid act by lestat. So her character has turned into a spoiled brat.
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Summary: The first and still the best
Review: Although Anne Rice has written scores of Vampire books, this first novel remains my favorite. The idea of an interview in a dark room with a real vampire is enough to get most people's attention. But the way the plot melts into the story of the vampire is a work of art.The screen version emphasized the spectacular, the gory and the sensational. Missing were the sensualness, the mystery and the darkness that permeated the saga. The author's powers of invention (her latter works tend toward repetition - a common problem) were never greater than what follows. The life and times of the vampires themselves capture the imagination and she manages to instill a sense of sorrow and empathy for these soulless creatures - even as they do their mayhem. For a flight of adventure and fantasy, put on some Bach (or better, Vierne or Widor), pour a glass of red wine, grab some blue cheese and an apple and prepare to enter the mists.
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Summary: A book that you could really sink your teeth into.
Review: Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice is a book that, even if you don't like reading, it will keep you interested in finishing it. I'm not the kind of person who likes reading a lot and before this book I never read an entire book. But there was something about this story that kept me attached to it. Something that I really like about this book is the passion and love of the characters. Vampires are supposed to be characters without sentiment, but in this story Ann Rice gave her characters (vampires) a heart worth of millions. Like the main character, Louis, who loved his " daughter"(Claudia, a little girl Louis and Lestat turn into a vampire) for centuries and did everything to protect her. Another character that shows a lot of love and passion is Claudia. She wanted to spend all eternity as Louis' companion and help him in the search for other vampires. In the end, Interview With The Vampire is a book worth reading. It would make your imagination fly and your heart thrill.
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Summary: Vampires can be dramatic
Review: Even though Interview With The Vampire was not my favorite creepy story, I still encourage people who like emotional drama books to read it. I was dissapointed about Louis and I actually felt sorry for him. It gets boring when you read about people like Louis. The one thing that I liked about the book was how well the author describes New Orleans a couple of centuries ago.
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Summary: A Depressive Journey Into Immortality
Review: I must say few books have made me feel hopeless and deppressed and this is one of them. Anne Rice introduces you to a vampire who hates his own nature and does not have the courage to end his pain. The book is intricately written and is amazing. The one criteria I have for all books I love is that they move me emotionally, and this one succeeded. I do not recommend for you to read this book if you are "down in the dumps." It is likely to make you more depressed. Anne Rice is a truly gifted author. The reason I gave Interview With the Vampire four is because the style in which she wrote the book is a little awkward. Rice writes the book all in dialog and as the title suggest it is an interview. I found the dialog confusing at times, but other than that an excellent novel.
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Summary: Into the darkness
Review: Take a leap into the terrible word of darness and blood, where the vampires lurk in the endless night and mortals are their prey. . . This is a deeply disturbing book, because the vampires are never made into heroes, they are never redeemed. And still we fall in love with the suffering Louis, who shares his life with us. His story is told in a rich and colourful language, full of all manner of detail that mainstream-vampire books always seem to miss. And yet it is the vampiric soul bared to us that makes this book a worthwhile companion into darkness. You will never again see a vampire in the same light . . or darkness.
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Summary: Pure Fantasy
Review: We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead... He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently...carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless", life...learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings...to the years when, moving away form his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him... We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in a body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court...night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below... We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be... We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imaginings...to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their one, steer them to the doors of the Theatre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within...to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled... In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness to a literary imagination of the first order
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Summary: I Want Some More...
Review: I just now started reading "Blood and Gold."I didn't think that I would like it because I felt Merick was a disapointment.Thinking back on the beging of the series gives me chills.I'm one of those who like Lestat better then Louis and I love Armand.This is a wonderful and thrilling book.
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