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Summary: A wonderfully enchanting book.
Review: Travel though the mytical times with Lestat. Journey though old France and encounter many immortal beings.This book was simply wonderful. Lestat is an enchanting character, with emotions, even though he is a vampire. This book is for anyone who loves history, fiction, mystery, and fantasy all rolled into one. This book is in a series so it won't end here. But before you read this book you should read the first book in the vampire chronicles, Interveiw with the Vampire. This was a great book, but very hard material to read. You can't put this book down. Lestat will keep you on guessing on what he is going to do next. You never know what wiil happen to him or what he will do. Even though this book was fiction , it also had historical facts in it too. This book was great I strongly suggest you read it.
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Summary: very enjoyable, thoughtful writing
Review: I agree with some of the reviews where it's said that Lestat is like 'Louis rehashed', it's true! But I don't care, this book is BRILLIANT, I love the writing of Anne Rice, she's incredibly talented. There is beauty, melancholia, greed , lust, philosophy EVERYTHING in this book. I have just finished 'Queen of the Damned' but I enjoyed '..Lestat' more. I just don't understand why there is no continuity in Lestat's character. OK, at first he wasn't even the main character [obviously, because it was Louis' story] and he was a complete bastard [according to Louis, but the facts are there] he acted like he never thought about anything, didn't care about being 'good' didn't care about the philosophy behind being a vampire [in 'Interview...'} now suddenly he changed and he became like Louis. Maybe he grew spiritually if that's possible for vampires. but it's like Rice wrote the first novel and then decided to make a continuation out of that and she grabbed Lestat and developed him but, well maybe it doesn't work really but I don't mind. I enjoyed this one better than 'Interview...' I really like Armand in this one, but again there are discrepancies between what Louis said about Armand's character and what Lestat says...aaaaaahhh it's getting a bit confusing.
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Summary: one of the best books i've ever read!!!
Review: I first read Interview With the Vampire and I was amazied.ThenI got The Vampire Lestat and I liked it even better.The atmosphere and the dark,gothic setting just pulled me in even more.I'm only 12 yers old and I think it's one of her best.Anne Rice is my favoriate author!!!Highly recomended!!!
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Summary: A major let down
Review: I loved Interview With the Vampire and I really liked Lestats character a lot so I was surprised by how Anne Rice potrays him in this book.He goes from being a complex evil character to a whiney, childesh idiot! Am I the only one that winces when he is called the "brat prince?" She made him cute, cuddley and mischievius in a little boy sort of way, a major difference from the Lestat in Interview. That lestat was more mysterious, although he loved being a vampire and accepted it(unlike Louis) you get the feeling that there is more going on in his mind than Louis can see. His character in The Vampire Lestat on the other hand is silly and can really got on your nerves.There is nothing at all disturbing or dark about him, you know he will never really do anything totally evil, hes too sweet and adorable too. Its not really that this book is so bad(compared to Menoch its a masterpiece)its just that if she wanted to write a book about a charming,charismatic vampire why did she use Lestat?
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Summary: Unbelievably exciting;romance and "smart" love at its finest
Review: Can a book be any more entertaining? Anne Rice has blown me away with the second book. The story completely took off and delivered me to another world that is so seemingly real I truly believe Lestat exists. The passion and lust for life and love between the vampires is so tantalizing to read that you understand what vampires feel when they drink. Anne knows how to write "real" romance.
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Summary: A page turner, impossible to put down.
Review: The Vampire Lestat is in my opinion, the best of the Vampire Chronicles. This book contains an aspect of mystery, which the others simply do not. This book is interesting from the very beginning, not like other books that don't become exciting until the very end. Definitely worth reading.
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Summary: A work of art!
Review: I loved this book more than I can explain. Sensuous, enchanting and at times wonderfully erotic, you don't know wether to fall in love with Lestat or to loathe him. One of my favorites of Rice's works to date.
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Summary: well actually
Review: I'm a bit wreary of sequels, this sounds exactly the type heading for disaster. First of all, it all sound too familiar to the 1st tale, to the point where some facts in the 1st was changed. Granted, Louis and Lestat had difference perspectives and would tell the same tale of the time they were together differently. But Lestat as a vampire with human qualities, searching for knowledge about their kind? That sounds a lot like Louis re-hashed. I liked the fact that Lestat was different, that all the characters were vampires with their own characteristics. I would have liked to hear the tale of Lestat, as he was.But, hearing all the rave reviews, I will give this book a try if it's at the library. If not, I can pass just as well.
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Summary: A painful read
Review: This book had brief moments of greatness but all in all the book was dull. Anne Rice trudges on endlessly it seemed at times, trying hard to make an exciting novel, but in the end fails miserably. The best part of the book was when it ended. This book has extinguished any desires I had to read the rest of the vampire chronicles.
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Summary: words elude me
Review: This world of Vampires has captured my soul. Anne Rices talent exceeds description. I have read the entire Vampire series so far and have found a connection to it. To say it has inspired me is an understatement,(I've even begun to write again, a passion i thought i'd lost). The beauty and LIFE decribed in those pages cannot be found else where. Those who hate it, (this is not an insult)but you must not truly get it. The whole Vampire Chronicles continues to become more real and exciting and you read each novel. Anne thank you for this gift and please keep writing.
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