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The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2) (original 1985; edition 1999)

by Anne Rice

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Title:The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2)
Authors:Anne Rice
Info:Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval (1999), Hardcover
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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (1985)

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This would have to be one of the best vampires stories ever written (at least the ones I have read). ( )
  jodes101 | May 9, 2013 |
Have not read this book yet.
  MelissaLauren | Apr 28, 2013 |
If you've read my other reviews of Anne Rice books, you'll know that she frustrates me with her inability to write and ending, and this is no different. I read this book before the third in the trilogy had been completed, so I was frustrated, angry, mad! when I reached the end and it didn't end. Not fair to leave it with a cliff hanger. NO! You start a book, you have to finish it. Draw us into the next one, but don't leave me wondering what comes next, especially when I don't have access to the next book! Very angry when I finished this one. ( )
  Karla.Brandenburg | Apr 13, 2013 |
This was definitely not a quick read for me, to the contrary. I liked it but I did get a bit fed up after reading more than half. Maybe I should not have read this book immediately after finishing Interview with The Vampire. I started to get a bit annoyed with the search foe why the vampires exist and how they did come about. I did like the action parts. Like the end.
That is the trouble cause now i want to know more, what is going to happen to Louis, Lestat, Gabrielle, Marius. I think I be wise and read something light and then start reading book 3 which i have on my mount TBR. ( )
  Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 |
Just re-read this one too. Lots more about mythology than I remembered. And so gay! Just really really gay. How funny that at the time I first read it I thought I was reading between the lines. Nope. Is it me or does the book collide into itself and fall apart about 3/4 of the way through? I was racing, all addict-y, toward the end and at the same time fairly dissatisfied. Too many stories-within-stories, and a weak and boring present day plot (battle of the vampires? yawn). But still really good. If I remember correctly, they fall off after this one. Scratch til it bleeds. ( )
  anderlawlor | Apr 9, 2013 |
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The Vampire Chronicles (complete) by Anne Rice

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THE Vampire Chronicles - 5 Titles - Interview with the Vampire - The Vampire Lestat - The Queen of the Damned - The Tale by Anne Rice

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This book is dedicated with love to Stan Rice, Karen O'Brien, and Allen Daviau
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I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less.
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After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.

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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Lestat has risen from his long sleep as a modern day rock star, and makes public his story of boyhood in eighteenth-century France and initiation into vampiredom in order to solve the mystery of his existence.

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