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Summary: WOW
Review: I was put on to this book by my friend Alex after watching "Interview wit the Vampire" I must say that Anne Rice has out done her self. I mean the way she wrote Lastat was so defining and clear it was like I was a character while reading this book. This is surley one of the best books I've ever read and would definatly recomend it to everyone.
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Summary: If you want an accurate depiction of a vampire
Review: Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles, is one of the most profound, heart felt authors ever. This being the second in the series, it directly follows INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, and articulates on the life of the main character Lestat. This book is so well written from part to part, the detail, the mental images (sometimes a bit disturbng, and the very changing and involved storyline make this one of the best books you will ever read. I have read many of Rice's novels and this is truely her heavy hitter.
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Summary: Two years later....
Review: I struggled and forced myself to get through this one, yes for two years! I know of two others who put it down at least four years ago never to pick it back up The bad boy Lestat became so overly passionate I was hoping another character would put him out of his misery, soon! By the end I realized the whole book was setting up all those lovely characters to come in QOTD. If one choses to buy this book, I highly suggest to also buy Queen of the Damned at the same time. When I finished the book at 3a.m. I was immediately on-line ordering QOTD, and I can say that was a treacherous two weeks of waiting! If nothing else skip Lestat altogether and go right to QOTD.
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Summary: Beautiful...
Review: This is the best book i have read, ever. Although I enjoy all of Anne's writing's more than any other author, this is the best so far. I absolutely love the chronicles. This book is very descriptive to the point you can feel the characters, as if you were them. It is like you know something no one else does, by knowing (Lestat's, for example)thoughts...which are very secretive and intriguing. This book will make you touch bases with a part of your mind you didn't know existed...you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Total Genius
Review: If Anne Rice had never written another book after "The Vampire Lestat," her reputation as a rare genius would have been created and sealed with this one novel.Unlike most Rice fans, I read this book first, and it has always been my favorite of all the Vampire Chronicls, much more so than "Interview with a Vampire." I cannot count how many times I have reread this book, and with each reading, I find a new richness, a new insight, a new awe-inspiring peak into the mind of a woman whose genius may be madness, but with whom I will gladly cross the line. (Case in point: This is the only book ever for which I stood in line for hours to have the author inscribe her name.) I won't belabor the plot here; it is simply too baroque to try to put into simple words. Suffice to say that, in the first person, we meet Lestat, the teenaged son of an impoverished 18th-century nobleman, whose life is at best cold and harsh, at worst, a constant battle with cruelty of every sort for one's mere survival. One particularly dark and fiercely cold night, Lestat, a beautiful young man despite all his hardships, is out with his beloved dogs, hunting wolves. Into the strange fog he rides...and when he first hears the deep, surreal, and otherworldly voice calling him..."Wolf killer, wolf killer," we are there with him. And we are by his side as he becomes, in a strangely but riveting erotic passage, one of the undead. A vampire unto eternity. All of Anne Rice's intensity, her eroticism, her love of history, her incredible sense of detail, and her dark view of the world is present in this book, much more so than "Interview with a Vampire." It is my suggestion that, if you want to sample Anne Rice, and have never read any of her works, this may be the book you want to read. And if you know Rice's works but not this particular novel, I urge you not to deny yourself another minute. This is truly one of the must-reads of one's life.
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Summary: Best book in the Vampire Chronicles.
Review: Lestat, unlike Louis, is a much likeable character. He doesn't whine about everything the way Louis does and is very charming and charesmatic. In Interview with the Vampire you only get to read about Louis' views on things and how evil and arrogent Lestat seemes, which makes one dislike him. Once you read this book, Lestat is not at all what Louis described him as. He's much more interesting that Louis ever was and ever will be. The most popular character of Anne Rice's vampire books and is the true embodiment of the "Anti-hero." If you like Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, you'll love this book.
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Summary: The BEST Anne Rice book to date!!!
Review: I've read them all... The Mayfair Witches, The Vampire Chronicles, the Tales of the Vampires (after Memnoch), Violin, Ramses,... you name it...
And "The Vampire Lestat" is, without a doubt, the BEST book Anne Rice has ever written... You fall in love with this character, his way of being, his way of thinking... everything!
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Summary: One of her best
Review: This is one of her greatest books yet, how she gets us into the mind of the hateful lestat that we grew to hate in interview with the vampire.
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Summary: NO NEED FOR PROZAC !
Review: Finally a vampire chronicle that won't make you want to od on happy medicine. Lestat is da bomb (whoops u don't say bomb on the internet). When he was mortal he lived in 16/1700 france. From there he goes to paris where he meets the infamous Armand and starts up his own theater company. This is the best book in the series Lestat isn't like the other vamps, if something isn't going his way he does something about it. This book is actualy pretty belivable except for the whole vamp thing. this book is good to read if youre feelin' down. it's long and in some parts takes some perseverence but it's worth it for the the explosive endin' but don't take my word for it read it yourself. One of my faves!Hopefully rice'll write more like it!
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Summary: Great Follow up To Interview
Review: There are two sides to every story, as the saying goes, and now it's Lestats's turn to share his tale. This book lets you know everything about Lestat as he tells us of his adventures as a young mortal, how he became a vampire, and then the story returns us to the first book as he talks about his life with Louis and Claudia. This is a thorough and enchanting tale of the history of Lestat, including all the imoprtant details about him that Interview kept a mystery to Louis, and the reader. It is the prequel, and the sequel to Interview. A great continuation of the vampire chronicles, with the introduction to some new interesting characters.
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