Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345409647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publicationHere 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.Look for a special preview of Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat in the back of the book. The Vampire Chronicles continue in Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atl
Latin Boy said One of my all-time favorites. Okay, so I was one of those kids in junior high school. You know the type: the teacher gives a reading assignment, and the kid does all he can within his power to be prepared without actually reading. Yeah, Cliff Notes, relying on others who actually read, Internet, etcI was solidly one of those. Then in eleventh grade something life-changing happened.There were several friends of mine passing around books like they were some sort of prized possessions. It was odd. Here I was avoiding reading like the plague, but their enthusiasm for readin. *GREAT* Read Even If You Saw The Movie! I enjoyed reading Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) book.Even though I'm a big fan of the movie adaptation--Interview with the Vampire--of the book, it still left me with new things to discover that weren't covered in the film.The story is told in first person by Louis, a man who is telling his story to a young writer about what it's like being a vampire. He also describes his struggle with the "dark gift" and how empty he feels living day-to-day, with questions that he will never find the answers to. Beneath. P. LAMASTER said Slightly disappointing. Given the massive enthusiasm and following, I was disappointed at the number of passages that I found to be awkwardly written or confusing or just dull. It is ultimately an interesting thought experiment about immortality and morality but I don't think it deserves the mania it has collected.
The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature o