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Summary: My favorite novel. Here's why:
Review: One could make a very strong case against Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat." It's very flawed book: It's rather messy, much of the dialog is ridiculously flowery, and what's with All The Capitalization? Although this is not by far Rice's best book it is my personal favorite and has been for many years because cause of its incredibly brilliant and optimistic tone, it's absolute celebrations of life and youth and adventure, and it's enduring theme of the outsider who is damned by destiny forever struggling to make a life and identity and a purpose for himself in a world is not his own. This book is incredibly inspiring and I would even go as far as to say it is life-affirming.One thing that many critics and the media in general don't understand about the work of Anne Rice is it's amazing optimism and humanism. She may write often dark novels, about characters who are tainted with evil, but never does she celebrate evil, I would go as far from her books to say that Anne Rice hates evil, this is clear in "The Queen of the Damned" if nowhere else. It's easy for people to look at a novel like "Lestat," written from the vampire's point-of-view and say that it is glamorizing an evil charactor. This is a simplification. I accept Lestat, I love his spirit, his relentlessness, his courage but I do not celebrate his nature. I hate evil. I hate death and injustice. And so does Lestat. Maybe that's the glamor. The glamor of good in evil. Evil in good. If you think about it, it's something all priviledged Westerners can relate to. Like Lestat we are stuck in an evil system that is responsible for death and suffering throughout the world. Technically speaking all Westerners, all the priviledged of the world, are damned. Yet not necessarily evil. We are all vampires. We have only to choose what kind of vampires we are going to be. Good vampires or evil vampires. This to me is what "The Vampire Lestat" is about. The creation of meaning and goodness in an evil world.
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Summary: It was an inspiring and intriguiing book
Review: I found this book very inspiring. I have been told that I am like Lestat, and I see myself in him. That is why I found him inspiring. The only difference really is that he is a dark romantic and I am just a romantic and he is a vampire and I am a mortal. I break rules too. I follow my heart, and I would love to see a movie made on this book but get someone else other than Tom Cruise
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Summary: THE MOST INTRIGUING OF ANY VAMPIRE BOOK I HAVE READ!!!
Review: This book was the first of Anne Rice's books I have read, and I absolutely LOVE Lestat. I have watched the movie every day for almost a week now. I watched it last week for the first time. Yet the book surpasses it by far. I don't think any movie on it could touch the emotion or depth conveyed in the novel. I can only wish it could. I am nearly finished reading "Interview..." and I am a bit bothered by how Louis conveys Lestat. I believe Lestat is truly misunderstood by Louis and Claudia. Yet I can sympathize with them. I hope that the rest in the series are just as awe inspiring and I hope that Anne Rice doesn't end their story for a long time to come. I would highly recommend "The Vampire Lestat" to anyone and everyone.
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Summary: ANNE RICE, YOU GO GIRL!! ;)
Review: THIS BOOK WAS TOTALY AMAZING!!! I LOVED INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE AND I LOVED THE VAMPIRE LESTAT EVEN MORE!!!!! IT RULES BABY!!
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Summary: Definitely neccessary to the vampire enthousiast!
Review: This book was excellent. Lestat in full light (something one may not expect of a vampire). Unique - not the same tired old story, but classic. Many possible interpretations to modern concerns, but not neccessarily philisophical. Downright entertaining; something to sink your teeth into.
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Summary: A wonderful book...I couldn't put it down!!
Review: It's a fascinating story, something that truly captured my full attention and imagination. I really felt the centuries storm past my eyes...I loved Anne Rice's style. However, sometimes she was almost a bit too descriptive, which was OK.
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Summary: A wonderful immersion in the mind of an imaginary being.
Review: This is the very best of all Anne Rice' writings of the supernatural. Again, here, she exercises her immense talent for empathy and expression of the inner thoughts and feelings of a character. Her language flows beautifully, and is loaded with sensory detail. Lestat lives on the pages; a sympathetic and poignant character. This is a fascinating and rich tale, loaded with historical detail, with the taste and feel of reality. I found this by far the best of the Vampire Chronicles, and, in all her supernatural works, approached only by The Witching Hour. It was surpassed only by Rice' historical fiction, Cry to Heaven and Feast of All Saints, to be precise.
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Summary: Character extraordinaire
Review: Gorgeous. I loved it. The best of the Vampire Chronicles and way up there in all of Anne Rice's work, second, maybe, only to The Witching Hour. Surely this is one of the most memorable characters I've ever read. He is drawn so intricately and with such complexity that he practically bleeds onto the page. The descriptions of his becoming a Vampire are kind of wrenching as we go through Lestat's struggle with his new identity. It's so important to know these things about him when you read him in the other books as the cosmopolitan, suave, experienced Vampire who seems to love being one. I was VERY much reminded of "Paradise Lost" here. It rings that way.
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Summary: Enchanting and interesting story
Review: this book is absolutly wonderful. the characters are so realistic and i found myself falling in love with lestat himself despite the fact that he's fiction. the plot is very deep and i had a difficult time putting it down. it really made me think about humanity and what it is about because of the way it mocks society seeing that vampires are immune to almost anything. a must-read for anyone who wants a totally different view on life.
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Summary: A slow-moving, but ultimately satisfying look into the Vamps
Review: We now meet Lestat, the infamous vampire from "Interview With The Vampire". Now, we see that he is not the evil-blood thristy creature of the night that Louis believed him to be, but a misunderstood vampire with somewhat of a soul(although sometimes I wonder about him). The opening is slow, especially with Lestat's homosexual relashonship with Nicholas as a mortal(I don't understand why she must make every male vampire in her stories gay or bi.. Why Anne, Why?), but it does get better when Lestat changes his mother to vampirism, and meets the Theatre Of The Vampires. All in all, this book is not the best in the series, but it is not the worst.
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