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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. In honest truth I found Interview with the vampire a little boring and hard to read. All Louis does is complain.But in this one we discover a wonderful character. A very different Lestat. One that is not even a shadow of what was described in the 1st vampire cronicle. I cannot wait to read Queen of the dammed if its half as good as this one I shall enjoy it inmensely!
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Summary: Better late than never
Review: I came to read this book long after the whole Anne Rice craze and long after the movie "Interview with a Vampire", but I am certainly glad that I did. While a very lengthy compositon that had a tendency to drag on sometimes, Lestat still managed to capture my attention on almost every page. You realise after a while that the author is educating you for a reason. I now see her master plan and embrace it. From the streets of France to Cairo to New Orleans, this book takes you on a journey of discovery. The discovery of what it means to be the great Vampire Lestat. But I am ramble on to much. Just read the book and you won't regret it. Yes, it's rather long but worth every page.
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Summary: Good book but not great
Review: I find Lestat to be an overrated character in the VC, not that I don't like him it's just that I loved him better in IWTV. AR changes alot of things around in this book just to build Lestat up, but she didn't have to do that at all, the whole Louis Lied thing is not explainable and very hard to believe, Lestat's story would have been more enduring and interesting if she had kept her original idea of him set in IWTV. There were parts in this book I couldn't read cause it was boring, his mortal life was boring, I found myself reading fragments of the story, around the time he met Marius I just skipped all the way to the end where talked about IWTV and when he was reunited with Louis etc, which was the best parts in the whole book. I realized a bit later that the main reason that part was better is because it had something to do with Louis.Lestat is a good character but I love Louis the most.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I just have one thing to say about this BEST book ever.. 'Is Anne Rice secretly a vampire?'
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Summary: 2000 years from inhuman eyes
Review: This is another masterpiece, magnifying the fun of the first volume by adding to the mystery of these blood-sucking immortals. THe sense of passing life - this time from Roman times - is enthralling and wonderfully evocative. Lestat turns out to be not such a bad guy, but far more sympathetic once you learn of his anguished background as the rebel of a declining aristocratic family in pre-revolutionary France. It is so believable! And the amazing images and scenes continue: Lestat screaming so loudly in a theatre that the audience runs away; Lestat and his friend getting drunk and beating their heads at the realization of the meaningless of life; the oedipal kissing when he turn his mother into a vampire. The characters in this one are still changing, with facets still being revealed at multiple levels. It all adds up to a sense of wonder, which is Naipaul's definition of a succesful novel. Bravo!
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Summary: Lestat
Review: The book I read was Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. This is the 2nd book in the vampire chronicles, for those of you who don't know what the Vampire Chronicles are; it's the stories that go with Interview with a Vampire. This book that tells the whole story of the vampire Lestat. From what lead him to France, which lead him to be "born into darkness" and where he turned out in 1985. It tells about how he met Armand and his vampire coven, how he made his own Vampire offspring, how he met Marius and learned about "Those Who Must be Kept" and how he later became a rock star. In one of the scenes he and one of his vampire offspring. Gabrielle, were held prisoner by Armand's coven; well Lestat, disproves all of the old ways and beliefs wrong to the coven, then the coven turns on Armand. Later Armand deals with the coven in his own way. Since I was so obsessed with Interview with the Vampire (the book and movie) I just absolutely loved this book. I recommend this book for skilled readers because of its length, and I recommend it to anyone who loved Interview with a Vampire and wish to know the whole story behind it. The book I read was Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. This is the 2nd book in the vampire chronicles, for those of you who don't know what the Vampire Chronicles are; it's the stories that go with Interview with a Vampire.
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Summary: Rice Didn't Hit a Wrong Note at the Start of her Vampires
Review: Once upon a time author Anne Rice showed us some formidable talent with her "Interview With A Vampire" and the "Vampire Lestat," her first two vampire novels. One could tell that she'd taken her time to craft two exceptional novels with beautiful prose that took you into her lush, homoerotic vampire worlds. Her later vampire novels lack these qualities. In "Vampire Lestat," she takes a supporting character she created in "Interview," Lestat, who you disliked, and consistently divides your opinion about just how evil Lestat is. In telling Lestat's story, she renders a very complex character, who continually draws you into him, much the way he does his victims! Lestat's entire history unfolds from when he was made a vampire, to making his mother a vampire, and to encountering the ancients of the vampire world. In the modern day, Lestat has become a rock singer who, of course, performs at night since he cannot survive the light of day. The novel shifts time periods frequently from this rock star present day Lestat to his origins and development as a vampire over the centuries, with all eras having their own fascination.
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Summary: Lestat and I fall in love
Review: This is where you first really get to know Lestat. I fell in love. There aren't any characters that I like as well as him.
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Summary: A milestone for vampire history
Review: This second book in Anne Rice vampire serie is without a doubt the most important of them all for the vampire fan. However if you don't go crazy for vampire or if your just the average horror novel fan you might find this cult book a little bit hard to read. The main reason for that is that Ann Rice is a descriptive writer and not an action one. So about 90% of the book is pure description of her conception of the "new vampire". Granted in this book she definetly redefined the vampire hence the popularity of this one on vampire maniacs, however other's might fine the endless description of of the different vampire traits and historic reference a little hard to bear. The best way (and maybe the only way) to read this important work is to take your time, only then will you fully understand the beauty and depth of this masterpiece. Now if you were planing on purchasing the usual action horror/novel that you can finish in a week, you should definetly not buy this one...
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Summary: A very good book
Review: If you liked interview with the vampire, you'll definitley like this book. It tells the story of Lestat's life which was never told in Interview. It also finally gives an origin of the dark gift. one thing that seems wrong though is that in Interview, Lestat was a bad guy, yet in this book he is a good guy. He says that Louis didn't notice that he only killed criminals, not innocent people as he said. Lestat also make Armand seem to be evil. Be prepared for a change of point-of-view in the book.
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