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Loading... The Vampire Lestat (Rice, Anne, Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Bk.)by Anne RiceSeries: Vampire Chronicles (2)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Psychodrama | Jan 2, 2010 |  I think this is the best out of all the books in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles series. The first book (Interview with the Vampire) was okay compared to this book. The ones after were not very interesting to me. (  ) mauveberry | Dec 31, 2009 | The second in Ann Rice's vampire chronicles, this time from the point of view of Lestat himself. The additional viewpoint is very revealing - if you trust it. ffortsa | Dec 24, 2009 | I loved this book enough to read it twice back in the '80's. I really enjoyed learning more about LeStat and the world Anne Rice created. (  ) TheLibraryhag | Nov 27, 2009 | I think this is a definite read for anyone who loves books about vampires, it's a great book that will have you turning page after page 'thirsty' for more. One of the greatest books I have read in my life (and that's saying something), I encourage everyone to check this book out. I guarantee you'll love it. (  )1  CoryR | Nov 5, 2009 | 
my very favorite anne rice novel by far
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As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley
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What really had me confused here is that in this book, Lestat says that Louis was basically lying about his portrayal of Lestat in Interview with the Vampire. In that book, Lestat is portrayed as simple and violent and uncaring for humans. In THIS book, he's shown as having a great love for humans, and being as philosphical as Louis was in the first book. It just didn't make sense to me. (