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Summary: new found vampire lover!
Review: After knowing the novel "Interview with the Vampire," reading book 2 of the Vampire Chronicles "The Vampire Lestat," was amazing. It definetly explains a lot of Lestats actions and approaches he took with Louis. This novel is an autpbiograpghy of Lestat's life and is definetly filled with alot of unbelieveable and unexpected turns. He goes from the present to the past, and in full detailed steps, he gives you the life of the vampire Lestat. I am now a new found vampire lover due to this book. It has me on the edge of my seat everytime i pick up the book.
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Summary: Lestat is a cool guy! Excellent sequel !
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About a third of this book is a retelling of Interview With the Vampire from Lestat's point of view. This series of books has done something that I have not experienced in any other book series - it turned me completely against a character in the first book and then later explained to me his motivations and viewpoint on events. When I finished Interview With the Vampire, I thought Lestat was the biggest asshole that ever walked on the face of the earth, but after having him tell his account of the relationship with Louis as he went along telling his story of how he was made into a vampire by Armand, made me understand why he acted the way he did. By the end, I was cheering for Lestat.
The story starts out in the late 1980's and Lestat is a rock star on MTV - everyone in the world thinks it is all an act - like Ozzy Ozbourne - so it is the perfect cover. We flash back to 18th century Paris - Lestat is a young French aristocrat, we then gradually move forward in time as Lestat's story unfolds to modern today. It is a facinating journey.
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Summary: A Better View of Lestat
Review: After I read "Interview" I thought that Lestat was a completely horrible personaity in the tracking of the vampires. However, after completing "The Vampire Lestat" I had an entirely different opinion of him. In this installment, the reader learns more about the blonde French devil's mortal life, and his recieving the "Dark Blood", as well as his beginning adventures in the world of the immortal. My understanding of Lestat was deeply changed by this novel, making him my favorite vampire of the pack. His past experiences greatly explain his terrible actions in the first volume. A very good read! :) Tied as my favorite installment with "The Queen of the Damned".
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Summary: very slow
Review: The Vampire Lestat reads as a very slow philosophical autobiography. I've read lots of 1000 novels that move more quickly. This book is much more of a history than a story.
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Summary: A book that will draw you in
Review: Once you start reading you can barely put it down! You can almost smell the incense, see the people, feel the ecstacy of blood. Anne Rice has every last detail in this book. You get lost in the world of Lestat de Lioncourt "The Vampire Lestat" and his companions. It is so easy to let your imagination go with this one! I can't wait to find out what happens in the next book!
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Summary: enchanting and intriguing
Review: I read this book in English. I am Italiam, and it was not that simple for me. But _The Vampire Lestat_ is something you cannot restist. _Interview_ is a beautiful book, indeeed, but I think it's a substantial mistake. Why does Louis obstinately hate Lestat? Why does he not understand that Lestat loves him? Why does he prefer the treacherous Armand? Lestat's end in _Interview_ is terrible, unbeareble. You cannot let a creature die of depression. Even if he were much and much worse than he is descripted. So, thanks to _The Vampire Lestat_! Miss Rice understood what depression really is. Maybe she knows this terrible disease. She gives a chance to her bad boy, to her villain, to her horrible, enchanting and intriguing character. And besides, she writes so well!
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Summary: A Great Sequel to Interview with the Vampire
Review: After reading Interview with the Vampire, I could not wait to get to the second book in the series. It was better than I had hoped for. Of course I felt no sympathy for Lestat in the first book. I felt he got what he deserved. He was a very selfish and childish person in the first book. But when you read this story you realize there is more to him than meets the eye. (He still got what he deserved). But in this book he confesses his deep love Louis and even love for Claudia even after she lashed his throat ( I'll put you in your coffin father, forever). There is no doubt that you will feel a great deal of sympathy for Lestat in this book, but make no mistake he is still selfish, greedy and childish as you will see with future books. He complains that Louis described him vividly but poorly, but nothing could be further from the truth. He is all that Louis decribed and more. But you still can not help but love him. Read and enjoy. I garauntee you will want to continue the series.
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Summary: I would give it 6 stars if I could!
Review: Vampire Lestat is a fabulous book, which I've read 3 or 4 times. It's a book that you can't put down until you've finished it and when you do finish it, you want to read the next of the chronicles... The queen of the damned, the third of the series, id a very nice book too, I highly recomend it, but after that they keep getting worse and worse... But the first three books are absolutely great, don't miss them.
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Summary: What a challenge
Review: Anne Rice boldly takes on the task of sanctifying the villain of her "Interview with the Vampire." In this novel, Rice, through a tedious plot, tries to paint her hero Lestat human. This book moves slower than the other novel but it deals more with the inner workings of one character moreso than the other did. The psychological snapshot of Louis in the last novel does not compare to the intricate portait of Lestat in this novel. Lestat is a character who has been confronted with so many problems one wonders why he hasn't ended his vampiric life. By the end of the novel, I actually found myself feeling some sort of sympathy for the character but still found myself incredulous of his sensitive side after Louis' butchering of him in the last novel. The immersion into the beautiful world of eighteenth and nineteenth century France was a definite departure from what I was used to reading everyday pop fiction. I think this book was a good afterthought to Interview with the Vampire and a beautiful introduction to her next installment Queen of the Damned. Who said that a bridge can't be beautiful?
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Summary: Rice Should Have Started Clean
Review: There are certain problems with this book. I loved the first novel in this series, "Interview With The Vampire", but Rice made a mistake I think, in making this book a continuation of her previous one. I think it would have been a much, much better book if she had started clean. For example, a great deal of what one had to believe about Louis and Lestat in the first book had to be not only suspended, but actually reversed in this one for the story to make any sense. In "Interview" Lestat is portrayed as a childish, vengeful, sadistic man with no feeling or depth whatsoever. Here he is shown as the "vampire's vampire" -- a man of unusual depth (which unfortunately doesn't stop his constant immaturity from getting the better of him), and Louis is shown to be a weak, vacillating, pathrtic creature -- far removed from the tragic figure that he was in the first novel. The series sort of loses its integrity after this. Also, many of the characterisations are hard to believe . . . Lestat (pre-vampiric) and his friend get drunk and spend the night in some sort of existential angst moaning about philosophy. Trust me, this is NOT what drunk teenage males think of! The vampire is also nearly elevated to the status of a god, being able to fly and being virtually indestructable, but still beins concerned with the pettiest of human problems. Lestat simply seems to waste his immortality. The invulnerability of the characters makes all of the shenannigans that they go through seem rather pointless. Instead of using his dark gift to elevate himself and understand life, Lestat prefers to waste his time in childish pursuits that are curiously pointless. So why the four stars? Well, Rice IS an excellent writer. The book does captivate one and draws a person into the drama. She writes with a lushness that any romantic writer would envy. The story is great, but the near hero-worship of Lestat seems absurd, and the inconsistencies with the first novel really did take away from the book's value.
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