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Loading... Gespräch mit einem Vampir. Ein Roman aus der Chronik der Vampireby Anne RiceSeries: Vampire Chronicles (1)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I've read many vampire stories and this one drew me into the lush, decadent world of vampires; that which lurked in history's shadows. (  ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 |  I've read many vampire stories and this one drew me into the lush, decadent world of vampires; that which lurked in history's shadows. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | I read this in high school and enjoyed it, but wasn't impressed enough to follow up with the later novels or revisit the work until I recently took a class in horror literature, and examined this book as the first to really work at making a vampire sympathetic and central to a novel-length work. Coming back to it a decade later, I enjoyed it much more than expected. Besides being readable and unique, the book is a smart and focused read that Rice formed masterfully. For a fan of vampire lit., it's a must-read, but I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested in out-of-the-ordinary literature or uniquely developed narrators. Additionally, this is one of those books that delivers as much as you want it too; it's a pleasure to read for simple entertainment, but this isn't just a surface level read. The more you examine and reread this text, the richer it gets. I'm looking forward to following it up with the other books in the series. (  ) whitewavedarling | Dec 29, 2009 | 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 | 
 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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