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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The first in the series of Ann Rice vampire chronicles - dark, sexy and compelling.  ffortsa | Dec 24, 2009 |  I read this back in the '70's when it first came out. It is a wonderful vampire story. It keeps the vampires in the dark shadows but makes them human enough to be engaging. One of the best vampire books out there. (  ) TheLibraryhag | Nov 27, 2009 | I don't really understand the sudden resurgance of interest in vampires, but I still like Anne Rice better than Stephanie Meyer. Plus if you've read all of the Twilight Books ten times, these might be of interest. (  ) ccavaleri | Nov 12, 2009 | LeStat's comeback shocked me in the end. As I heard Louis's story, I became more and more sympathetic to the vampire's plight. Rice describes the murders in extensive detail, and had me feeling sick when imagining the grisly act of draining human blood, not to mention drinking it. Then there was poor Claudia. How sad that she never could age to maturity ... she did turn into such a demon child though. (  ) SFM13 | Nov 8, 2009 | No one has topped Anne Rice's Interview...no one! Her book is even better than Dracula by Bram Stoker, and it is superior to Twilight, a book I actually loved. Rice's book is just much more literary than Meyer's, more developed in plot and characterization. Who can forget Claudia, Armand, the beast of Transylvania? The vividness of Rice's prose is incredible; I remember the pictures her writing created in my mind's eye -- Louis' transformation, Claudia's physical/mental conflict, the thing they encounter in Transylvania during their search for identity, the Theatre de Vampyres, and Armand, poor lovesick Armand. This is one of my favorite books of Anne Rice (although I did also enjoy Lestat), one of my favorite books of all time, actually. (  ) macktan894 | Nov 6, 2009 | 
 The publicity tells us Rice is "a dazzling storyteller." But there is no story here, only a series of sometimes effective but always essentially static tableaus out of Roger Corman films, and some self-conscious soliloquizing out of Spiderman comics, all wrapped in a ballooning, pompous language. Maybe the movie will be better, but the book is too superficial, too impersonal and too obviously made, to touch the sources of real terror and feeling. The author's seriousness is honest, I think, but misplaced; perhaps a bit more Grand Guignol elegance was called for father than incessant philosophizing. Immersed in the book's fetid, morbid atmosphere - like being in a hothouse full of decaying funeral lilies - one longs to get out in the garden.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345337662, Mass Market Paperback)Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.... "Magnificent, compulsively readable." CHICAGO TRIBUNE (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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