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Summary: Move over, Dracula!
Review: This is a book that is beyond any words of praise. Much, much better than "Interview with the vampire". With its setting in the 1984, Lestat spins an enrapturing tale of his mortal life and escapades as a vampire. While Louis's story leaves you with a depressing emptiness, Lestat enchants and enraptures you by the very first page. When reading "Interview with the vampire" , it makes Lestat out to be paticularly cold and menacing, not a very accurate picture. Although it described Lestat's arrogance, spite, cruelty and vengfulness, it left out important parts of his personality such as his passion, sensuality, charm, and the courage to endure a cursed immortality that was layed before him. This book, on the other hand gives a whole new perspective as the author tells things from Lestat's point of view while at the same time analyzing his true character and motives. After reading it I was completely enamored and hungry for more. This is the true essence of the vampire chronicles and the very reason why I love Anne Rice even today. Even though her creativity is slowly depleting, I still remain a loyal fan for the simple fact that I believe she will one day produce another masterpeice equal to the likes of this one.
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Summary: Mmmm... Blood!
Review: "If you surrender and go with her, you have surrendered to enchantment, as if in a voluptuous dream," said the Boston Globe of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Now, returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created, she demonstrates once again her power to enthrall. With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the Vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality. And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence. As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we see the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors. We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first an apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one...until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood. We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent. We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice, and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him. But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule. And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at least revealed. Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat's vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.
Rice is a born story-teller. I sometimes suspect she's a born vampire too, as she keeps my imagination constantly flowing through and sometimes I literally feel fangs growing under my lips. The second book in this wonderful series continues with her great style of presenting her character, and her constant use of spicy phrases and descriptive style. Must read for any vampire lover!
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Summary: Blood thirsty for more books like this
Review: This book begins with Lestat waking up from along time asleep in the ground to the sound of the band called devil's night out and new noises that characterize the mtv era. He decides to take control of the band and become a rock star. He also decides to write an autobiography. Then the book seems to become that autobiography that he wrote. It tells us if his mortal childhood and vampire transformation. His dreams about becoming an actor and the dreams that he will never have . It tells about his erotic journey through life and how he befriended his best friend Nicolas. Magnus the vampire that bestowed the dark gift upon him and leaves him begging longing for answers that only he could tell him. It tells how he saves his mother with an immortal kiss. Lestat's encounter with a vampire coven that causes dilemmas for the vampire but through all the twists and turns of his story he realizes what a vampire truly is and what it takes to be one who thirsts for blood. Wow I cant tell you how much I liked this book. This book made my favorite genre change to horror, vampire books. This tale does show that Anne can be kind of wordy and overly descriptive but hey, it painted a very detail picture in my head. This book made you think. It questioned every moral I can think of. It made me think about my own principles and ethics. Though I like book I can see how people might think it was boring. The book did have its up and downs. At the beginning I had to struggle to keep reading it, but once I got in it a little bit further, I couldn't get away from it. What I thought was a little ironic though was that the first book showed Lestat as a vampire that I had come to hate but in this book I become to love him. The first book made you assume he just was a cruel hearted blood thirsty vampire but when I read this it made me see that he was completely different and had a story all his own
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Summary: Bravo, Anne!
Review: The follow up to Interview With The Vampire is an excellent piece of work told with Ms. Rice's signature writing style, which is sometimes too pansexual and extravagant to allow a reader to take any of her work as serious pieces of literature art. Sorry, Anne, but you've got a problem there . . . Tone it down! The Vampire Lestat answers some of the questions the first novel posed. I think the underlying theme of the vampire series (which Ms. Rice unfortunately ruins after the third book) is the burning question we all ponder: How did we get here? These vampires question their lineage, and this book brings to light Lestat's knowledge. I especially enjoyed the part of the novel where Lestat makes his mother a vampire. The characters, in general, are much more interesting in this novel than the first, especially Lestat's mother. The first novel, while interesting, is low brow in comparison to this dynamic follow up. Not to take anything away from Interview but this novel is hands down the best in the series. Apparently, Anne Rice must have enjoyed writing the novel as well, since Lestat, not Louis, became her primary vampire creature. I was faithful to the Vampire Chronicles until they became ridiculous. Lestat didn't need to descend into Hell. Lestat didn't need to become human again. What's that got to do with the vampires' heritage? In my opinion, Anne Rice should have stopped the series with three novels. And, of those three, The Vampire Lestat is the one I most recommend!
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Summary: Lestat is a masterpiece
Review: I don't read very many books, because I don't seem to enjoy it. After I started reading "The Vampire Lestat" it seemed that I couldn't put it down. Anne Rice does a wonderful job of showing and explaining all the features and characters of the story without making it seem boring or too indepth. The stories that are told by many numerous characters, especially Lestat, catch your attention and leave the action, adventure, and mystery for anyone to want to explore. I never thought that I could enjoy reading a book so much. To anyone that enjoys the mystery and art of vampires should read this book
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Summary: Pretty Damn Good
Review: An awesome sequel to Interveiw with the Vampire- a bit boring in parts though...
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Summary: Very good!
Review: In my opinion, this is the best of the Vampire Chronicles. It has a gripping story and great characters. You find out a lot about Lestat and how he wasn't nearly as cold-hearted as he was played out in Interview with the Vampire. If you didn't like Louis's brooding attitude and were slightly turned off from the series by reading it, you ought to give this book a chance. It's totally different. Lestat is modest, yet full of himself. He is not the monstrosity that everything thinks, including himself, he is. The story isn't only about Lestat either. The book takes you through some of the brief histories of the vampires he meets. It is truly a great book. Best one in the Chronicles.
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Summary: absorbing...
Review: The second in the series, this book goes in-depth into the life (and afterlife) of Lestat de Lioncourt. This book is Lestat's defence against Louis portrayal of him as a selfish, cruel creator in Interview. Anne carefully builds on her precious world, and continues to weave the intricate details that she's come to be known for. So... read 'interview with the vampire' first, then this book and you'll be well on your way to Anne Rice's dark, but beautiful world.
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Summary: Fractured Lestat
Review: As a long-time lover of Ms. Rice's vampire chronicals, and a fan of Michael York, I ordered this audio book with confidence. Don't you make the same mistake. Mr. York's performance is hectic, hysterical and strained, and the "editing" of this abridged version is criminal. The tale becomes nearly incoherent in this treatment, and Mr. York deserves to be thrown into the Louisiana bayou for his part in it. Three thumbs down. All the way down.
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Summary: Thrilling and honest life story....memorable characters!!
Review: Interview with the Vampire won't prepare you for this...Anne Rice's semi- follow-up to her first exploration into the world of vampires brings forth characters as real as the people next door. After this many readings of my copy [which is quite literally falling apart as I currently reread it!] I find myself experiencing what seems to be a personal conversation between Lestat and myself instead of simply a story about a character. A great read. You don't need to be a fan of gothic horror-type novels to enjoy this. Pick this one up and you won't be able to put it down until you've devoured it, and gone onto the later courses of Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil, all of which are absolutly addictive.
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