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Summary: A very good read.
Review: To be honest, I am not an Ann Rice fanatic and haven't really found any of her other books that intruiging, but Queen of the Damned is very rich, and has a wonderfully layered quality to it, like reading secrets out of an ancient manuscript.It could be called a masterpiece of modern horror fiction, if ever there was. I would highly recommend this book above all her other works...and also check out the film, which isn't superb, but still interesting enough.
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Summary: Akasha has awoken after 6,000 years...watch out!
Review: The Mother of all vampires, literally has been asleep for nearly 6,000 years, give or take a thousand. Akasha, Queen of the Damned and former Queen of the Nile in Ancient Egypt has woken from her slumber mysteriously after hearing the music from another vampire singing in a rock group calling themselves The Vampire Lestat.
Lestat, or known among the vampire circle as 'the brat prince' has made it his mission to wake Akasha from her sleep and take on the world's vampires. Lestat is tired of this life and his neverending quest for good and redemption. What he doesn't know is that Akasha was better off asleep.
What Lestat dreams of her being and what she truly is are two very different things.
Evil in the purest word is what she is.
Kept asleep with her husband and fellow vampire Enkil, King and Queen, or as all seem to know them as, Those Who Must Be Kept, the vampire Marius tells us how he came to get them and how he kept watch for nearly 2,000 years until Akasha awakens. Going back 6,000 years the story of Akasha and Enkil and how vampires began is told in detail. Along with the Legend of the Twins and how they seem to be forgotten after all these years.
Fascinating work here. More fasinating than the previous books.
Creepy and truly frightening at times, this one is a keeper.
Will Lestat find Louis after nearly a hundred years? Will the older ones seek to destroy him? What does Akasha intend to do now that she is awake?
I was torn at times on who I felt sorry for and in the end I was shocked. Unbelievable read. Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: The Queen of the Damned offers a great insight on Anne Rice'
Review: I was quite intrigued on the insight of theology that Anne Rice shows in this book. The movie doesn't even touch upon how far she goes into how mankind created God, not the other way around. And that's only the beginning of the theology found in this book. Agreat read. If you pick this book up in the afternoon, odds are you won't be sleeping until you finish it.
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Summary: Queen of the Damned
Review: I have been fueled by Anne Rice's book since the 1st one that I read,Blackwood Farm, but must admit, have read them sequencially backwards. I was put off at first by the cover,from the movie poster,as the deceased pop star is NOT by any means, my mind's eye vision of Akasha,not by all means. So, I first read Armand. BUT I WAS MISLEAD by the cover & my loyalty to my imagination of the characters. FORGET THE COVER, and the MOVIE....This book is great, beyond what I had hoped. THe mythical historical journey is in itself awesome. One gets to view Marius, Mael, Jesse,Armand, Daniel....as some strange new sort of Superhero league. My heart actaully hurt for Baby Jenks, and I did not think it would. She brought together present day USA with the ancients in a way that kept me up way past bedtime ! So it's a little gory, but isn't the world we really live in gory, too ?
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Summary: Forget the movie!
Review: Thebook has so much more to offer -- especialy if ur a anne rice reader! The twins should be the movie focus!
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Summary: VAMPIRIC ORGINS, 101
Review: Ever wonder where vampires come from, and who was the first? This book answers those burning questions! In a defiant and conquering mood, Lestat accidently awakens the Queen of All Vampires, The First, The Original, The Goddess! And not only do we learn just HOW vampires came into existence, but why they did, and why they can't stand the sun among other weaknessess. (Anne Rice gets a bit scientific in this one!) This book starts in the present day and takes us through time to ancient locales, cultures, and mystic practices to explain the bizarre beginnings of the strange immortal beings we've come to love. And although the series stars Lestat.....don't get the wrong idea - IN *THIS* BOOK, IT'S THE WOMEN WHO STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT!
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Summary: Great & more exciting than the movie made!
Review: If anyone has seen the movie and tried making the comparisons, its absolutely deemed ridiculous. The book explained in much details and has more excitements than the movie portrayed. The characters were too shallow in the movie and much stories and roots of mother of all vampires were left out leaving movie goers who never read Ann Rice book before puzzled and dazzled. I suggest just read this book and let your imaginations accompany your reading to its peaks and climax and forget about the movie unless of course if one is an ardent fan of Aliyah but leave the good story telling to Ann Rice herself and her book.
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Summary: Takes a different turn from the previous entries
Review: In "The Queen of the Damned", the follow-up to "The Vampire Lestat" which was a follow-up to "Interview with the Vampire", author Anne Rice takes a different turn from the previous entries in her VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. In TQOTD now legendary vampire/rock star Lestat is kidnapped by the mother of all vampires, who seeks to destroy 90% of the males in the human population believing it shall end war and rape. What do you think?! Lestat doesn't agree, and from then on it's a battle between the few remaining vampires (including old favorites Armand and Louis). An interesting novel that, while a step down from the first in the series, is just as good if not slightly better than the second entry.
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Summary: anne rice does it again
Review: Just a comment. If you saw the movie than dont assume its anything like the book. I liked the book a lot more than the movie. The background history of how vampires became is in this book. It shows a fictional history of Egypt that is quite interesting. There are many characters in this book; some characters return that were in Interview and the Vampire Lestat. Oh well I loved it :)
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Summary: Goddess awakend
Review: In the third book of her Vampire-Chronicles-Series, Bestselling Author Anne Rice again follows legendary bloodsucker Lestat, who still is a Rock-Star and still spreads the secrets of his own around the world.
Angry about this, almoust every Vampire on the planet wants to kill him. And the timemark is set: On the day he will play in San Francisco, Lestat has to die.
But then other things happen: Strange Visions of two redhaired girls (witches) and resurrection of Akascha aka. the mother of all vampires. Soon she and Lestat come together - and the world might never be the same again ...
Every reader who liked "Interview ..." and "The Vampire Lestat" definitly will LOVE this one! Again, Rice prooves that she is the only living author who can mix historical with supernatural in a perfect way. This time she also introduces many new bloodsucking faces to the Vampire community: Khayman, Pandora, Jesse to name but a few. Everyone has its own tale to tell; fascinating an shocking at the same time. And speaking of Akascha - she is the supernatural counterpart to all the classic James-Bond-Villains; a female bloodsucking Blofeld-meets-Dracula-meets-Satan goddess with unholy plans. Brilliant!
One last word to those who never read an Anne-Rice-Novel before: Please begin with the first two books of the series. The more you understand, the more you'll gonna love it - serious!
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