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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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bookshelves: owned, romance, vampires, fantasy, horror, dark, 5-stars, erotica
May 02, 2014
bookshelves: owned, romance, vampires, fantasy, horror, dark, 5-stars, erotica
Read 6 times. Last read July 7, 2023 to August 10, 2023.
I admit that I couldn't get through the rest of "The Vampire Chronicles", but this one stays a favourite.
First, I really like Anne Rice's prose. It is so beautiful and enchanting. The whole story comes along with a good measure of dark sensuality, which I particularly like. What is more important to me, though, is that it presents, in a very captivating way, problems which have been haunting humanity since for ever. How many people in reality live tortured by guilt and loneliness and feel different than everybody else the way Louis does? Or how many people are tormented by the thought that their looks do not show their true self and that the others are unable to see past the surface? (Claudia). Or how many people are forced to live and suffer with someone they can never quite connect to, out of necessity, loneliness, because they love them despite all, or all three at once? I think many people can relate to the heroes (I should say anti-heroes, really) of this dark tale.
What is loneliness? What is the world? What is eternity? What does it mean to be immortal? What is the nature of existence? Is there God? What does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be evil? And which is the bigger evil - to be the actual committer of a crime or to allow it? What is life, what is death? It speaks not only of, and the value of, life and death of humans as individuals, but of the life and death of beliefs, values, possibilities.
It is told through the POV of one narrator, but it has a really big scope. Anne Rice shows an amazing skill in reflecting people's feelings and struggles. What is fiction if not a mirror to reality? Two opposite concepts which are not that opposite, after all. Every creation of art is a message born out of its creator's experience and inner world.
Read count: 4
First, I really like Anne Rice's prose. It is so beautiful and enchanting. The whole story comes along with a good measure of dark sensuality, which I particularly like. What is more important to me, though, is that it presents, in a very captivating way, problems which have been haunting humanity since for ever. How many people in reality live tortured by guilt and loneliness and feel different than everybody else the way Louis does? Or how many people are tormented by the thought that their looks do not show their true self and that the others are unable to see past the surface? (Claudia). Or how many people are forced to live and suffer with someone they can never quite connect to, out of necessity, loneliness, because they love them despite all, or all three at once? I think many people can relate to the heroes (I should say anti-heroes, really) of this dark tale.
What is loneliness? What is the world? What is eternity? What does it mean to be immortal? What is the nature of existence? Is there God? What does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be evil? And which is the bigger evil - to be the actual committer of a crime or to allow it? What is life, what is death? It speaks not only of, and the value of, life and death of humans as individuals, but of the life and death of beliefs, values, possibilities.
It is told through the POV of one narrator, but it has a really big scope. Anne Rice shows an amazing skill in reflecting people's feelings and struggles. What is fiction if not a mirror to reality? Two opposite concepts which are not that opposite, after all. Every creation of art is a message born out of its creator's experience and inner world.
Read count: 4
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Started Reading
May 2, 2014
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May 2, 2014
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Finished Reading
December 23, 2014
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owned
January 7, 2015
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romance
January 7, 2015
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vampires
May 13, 2015
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fantasy
October 11, 2015
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horror
October 11, 2015
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dark
December 10, 2015
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5-stars
January 11, 2016
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erotica
May 23, 2017
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May 24, 2017
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"it was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world . . . on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves."
May 25, 2017
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"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
May 27, 2017
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"I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly, wrongly, an immortality."
May 31, 2017
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"We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms."
June 1, 2017
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"If there was not understanding in the early years, there was no smattering of fear. Mute and beautiful, she played with dolls, dressing, undressing them by the hour. Mute and beautiful, she killed."
June 1, 2017
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"For that was it. I fed on strangers. I drew only close enough to see the pulsing beauty, the unique expression, the new and passionate voice, then killed before those feelings of revulsion could be aroused in me, that fear, that sorrow."
June 1, 2017
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"Something in me was conscious of an enormous gulf of darkness very close to us. Sometimes the physical world about me seemed insubstantial except for that darkness. As if a fault in the earth were about to open and I could see the great crack breaking down the Rue Royale, and all the buildings were falling to dust in the rumble. But worst of all, they were transparent, gossamer, like stage drops made of silk"
June 2, 2017
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"What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient. A silver clock ticking in a void, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before He had made light. Ticking, ticking, ticking, in a room as vast as the universe."
June 3, 2017
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"Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man’s blood with cold."
June 3, 2017
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"But even in these moments, when the ship slept and all the world slept, neither heaven nor hell seemed more than a tormenting fancy. To know, to believe, in one or the other…that was perhaps the only salvation for which I could dream."
June 3, 2017
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"I pondered the great risk of our questions, the risk of any question that is truthfully asked; for the answer must carry an incalculable price, a tragic danger. Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?"
June 3, 2017
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"I sat beside her and sang to her, and she stared at me as she clung to that doll, as if trying blindly and mysteriously to calm a pain she herself did not begin to understand. Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll."
June 5, 2017
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"Darkness did not exist. Vampires did not exist. And even bent as I was on my quest, it was sweet to think that, for an hour, we climbed into the cabriolet from such civilized luxury only to ride along the banks of the Seine, over the bridge into the Latin Quarter to roam those darker, narrower streets in search of history, not victims."
June 5, 2017
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"My memory is too clear; too sharp; things should wear at the edges, and what is unresolved should soften. So, scenes are near my heart like pictures in lockets, yet monstrous pictures no artist or camera would ever catch"
June 5, 2017
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"‘I cannot make her happy, I do not make her happy; and her unhappiness increases every day.’ This was my chant, which I repeated like a rosary, a charm to change the facts, her inevitable disillusionment with our quest, which left us in this limbo where I felt her drawing away from me, dwarfing me with her enormous need."
June 5, 2017
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"“Never did I so completely feel the city’s immense size, how I might pass from this twisting, blind street of my choice into a world of delights; and never had I so keenly felt its uselessness. I was helpless. She was helpless. But she was stronger than me. And I knew, had known even at the moment when I turned away from her in the hotel, that behind her eyes there was for me her continuing love."
June 7, 2017
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"She was looking into his eyes now, and her pain bathed her in a beauteous light, a light which made her irresistibly alluring. It was this that held the jaded audience, this terrible pain"
June 8, 2017
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"Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils when the only power that exists is inside ourselves?"
June 8, 2017
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"We stand here, the two of us, immortal, ageless, rising nightly to feed that immortality on human blood; and there against the knowledge of the ages sits a flawless child as demonic as ourselves. After seeing what I have become, I could damn well believe anything! Couldn’t you? And believing thus, being thus confounded, I can now accept the most fantastical truth of all: that there is no meaning to any of this!’"
June 11, 2017
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"She hated me, she loathed me, and my heart shrivelled inside me, as if, in depriving me of that love which had sustained me a lifetime, she had dealt me a mortal blow. The knife was there. I was dying for her, dying for that love as I was that very first night when he gave her to me, turned her eyes to me, and told her my name; that love which had warmed me in my self-hatred, allowed me to exist."
June 11, 2017
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"To destroy me utterly she needed only show me that pain. The child I made a vampire suffered. Her agony was as my own."
June 12, 2017
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"How beautiful she was, a cold, flaxen-haired woman with a doll’s face and liquid eyes gazing at me so serenely and so long that, surely, I must have been forgotten. The universe was now marked off and nullified by someone who had suffered in it, always, but was now listening to the tinkling of a toy music box, putting a hand on the toy clock. Shortened hours and little golden minutes. I felt I was mad."
June 12, 2017
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"If I could make those times come alive for either you or me…for only an instant! What would that be worth? And what a sadness it is to me that time doesn’t dim the memory of that period, that it becomes all the richer and more magical in light of the world I see today."
June 17, 2017
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"‘that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us?"
June 18, 2017
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"Before, all art had held for me the promise of a deeper understanding of the human heart. Now the human heart meant nothing. I did not denigrate it. I simply forgot it. The magnificent paintings were cut loose from the hands that had made them and dead like children turned to stone. Like Claudia, severed from her mother, preserved for decades in pearl and hammered gold. And like us, they could all be reduced to ashes"
June 19, 2017
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"I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless."
June 19, 2017
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"She. It seemed then that she had never existed. That she had been some illogical, fantastical dream that was too precious and too personal for me ever to confide in anyone. And too long gone."
June 19, 2017
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"I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, his rich, flawless voice singing, his large, sparkling eye catching the young woman who stood by, enrapt, so that a smile spread over his face as the song died on his lips; and for that one moment when his eye met hers, all evil seemed obliterated in that flush of pleasure, that passion for merely being alive."
June 19, 2017
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"You’re dead inside, you’re cold and beyond my reach! It is as if I’m not here, beside you. And, not being here with you, I have the dreadful feeling that I don’t exist at all. And you are as cold and distant as those hard forms I cannot love or comprehend, as alien as those hard mechanical sculptures of this age which have no human form. I shudder when I’m near you. I look into your eyes and my reflection isn’t there"
June 19, 2017
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July 7, 2023
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August 10, 2023
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Comments Showing 1-50 of 52 (52 new)
Vesy you know i think just like Sabah - Louis´s whininess and unwillingnes to embrace what he became annoyed me to no end - Lestat on the other ahnd loved thr perks of beying a vampyre: he reveled in his wickidness and i gotta love someome who does his bid as he wants, whenever he wants. But i can see that from the standing point of storyline, Louis was indeed needed, to get some depth in to the book. But to me - Lestat all the way, baby!
Maria wrote: "Vesy you know i think just like Sabah - Louis´s whininess and unwillingnes to embrace what he became annoyed me to no end - Lestat on the other ahnd loved thr perks of beying a vampyre: he reveled ..."Maria, I surely understand what you and Sabah see in him. He has that free spirit, bad boy charm thingy that most women (including me) find so irresistible. Cheers to that!
You hit the spot - bad boy! And doing his heart's desire, no appologies! I love that i my fictional characters as well as my real live persons.
Maria wrote: "You hit the spot - bad boy! And doing his heart's desire, no appologies! I love that i my fictional characters as well as my real live persons."
Sure. The more confident and spirited a person is, the better. Guilt just sucks the life out of you.
And guilt was what Louis had by the bucketfull.Broody? Oh yes. But he hung on it like a lifeboat, to try and still feel part of the hunan race, something that he no longer was but craved. In a sense, he thought he was beying punished for not caring for his life, while he had it.
Maria wrote: "And guilt was what Louis had by the bucketfull.Broody? Oh yes. But he hung on it like a lifeboat, to try and still feel part of the hunan race, something that he no longer was but craved. In a se..."
I hadn't thought of it this way, but yes. You're right. That was part of it too.
Vessy wrote: "Maria wrote: "And guilt was what Louis had by the bucketfull.Broody? Oh yes. But he hung on it like a lifeboat, to try and still feel part of the hunan race, something that he no longer was but c..."
Vessy, it will all comes down to guilt thus punishment: i bet Louis blamed himself for not beying able to somehow save his wife and child, later on blamed himself for beying seduced by Lestat and letting him have his way and last but not least for turning Claudia in to one of them. He was never confortable or at ease in any of these roles, from what i´ve gathered.
When someone boards the guilt train, it doesn´t have any breaks: it´s all the way downhill.
Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I've enjoyed following it immensely."Thanks for beying here as our audience.
Maria wrote: "Vessy wrote: "Maria wrote: "And guilt was what Louis had by the bucketfull.Broody? Oh yes. But he hung on it like a lifeboat, to try and still feel part of the hunan race, something that he no lo..."
Maria, I believe guilt can be overcome when you have good enough support system. Of course, it comes dawn mostly to you. Some people can count only on themselves, so in order to get over it, they have to have an iron will and lots of perseverance, because resolving an emotional problem takes a long time, often years. Unfortunately, Louis had neither support system, nor the strength to overcome it on his own. What he could have done was not to let himself be so obsessed with the guilt over his brother's death (it was his brother in the book, not a wife and a child) as to let himself be turned into a vampire. Though, I am not sure how much choice he actually had. He says that it hasn't really been a choice, but it hasn't been inevitable either. This was the situation with him through the whole book. His indecisiveness. Even he himself admits in the end that the biggest evil in him is his passivity.
Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I've enjoyed following it immensely."Thank you for starting it, Sabah, and for sticking around. :)
I admit I am not a Vampire reader, by no means but I enjoyed your take thoroughly, Vessy! If a work gets you to question, it passes the test. And your pertinent, ponderous mood more than validates it! :)
Seemita wrote: "I admit I am not a Vampire reader, by no means but I enjoyed your take thoroughly, Vessy! If a work gets you to question, it passes the test. And your pertinent, ponderous mood more than validates ..."Seemita, I am a big fan of vampires. The problem is that the vamp stories I usually come across to are all, sorry to say it, rather superficial. Even the infamous Bram Stoker's "Dracula" couldn't grab me. Nobody does them like Anne Rice. (In this part anyway. Alas, the sequels didn't appeal to me). So I consider myself very lucky to have found this rare gem. It was due to the movie with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst I loved so much as a child that I decided to read the book so many years later. Thank you for reading and commenting, my friend. As always, I greatly appreciate your opinion and support. :)
Sabah wrote: "Maria wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I've enjoyed following it immensely."Thanks for beying here as our audience."
Vessy wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I'..."
Thanks, Sabah. I hope you find something you would like. I need to do the same with yours. Due to your lovely reviews and comments I came to really trust your tastes. :)
Sabah wrote: "Vessy wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Maria wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I've enjoyed following it immensely."Thanks for beying here as our audience."
Vessy wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Ver..."
Sabah, am I happy to know that our tastes coincide so well. I understand you perfectly well. Dark characters and disturbing undertones make you feel challenged. If everything is too neat, there's no such excitement. I like being provoked. Of course, I have my limits too. It's not uncommon for me think "That was too much". Please don't let me dissuade you from reading "Dracula". This is me. You may like it. I hope it won't disappoint you. :)
Sabah wrote: "Vessy wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Vessy wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Maria wrote: "Sabah wrote: "Very interesting discussion, I've enjoyed following it immensely."Thanks for beying here as our audience."
Ves..."
Thank you so much for this recommendation, Sabah. You really stirred my interest. I searched for it, but I am afraid that there are too many books with this title. By all means, tell me, if you remember something at some point. Many thanks. I hope you enjoy both Dracula and Interview. :)
Sabah wrote: "The Dark Angel by Meredith Ann Pierce. Read as a teen. It was steeped in richly lush poetic prose which was a joy to read. Apparently it may be a trilogy so will be ordering the remaining two. :)"I will be looking for them. Thank you so much. :)
I, for one liked very much Dracula. As it was written as a series of diary entrances of the various characters, it became challinging to see the events from more than one POV.I was about to give a spoiler, but no - read it. It´s best.
Vessy...interesting review.I have read the first two in the series and I hope to continue them.
The first I would give 4 stars and I think I gave Lestat 3.5 stars.
The questions you posed were oh so very interesting and I really enjoyed the discussion you had with both Maria and Sabah.
By chance have you read any of the books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro? My sister loves them.
Jaidee wrote: "Vessy...interesting review.I have read the first two in the series and I hope to continue them.
The first I would give 4 stars and I think I gave Lestat 3.5 stars.
The questions you posed were o..."
Hi, Jaidee. I am so glad you have enjoyed the books. To me ít is all about "Interview with the Vampire" - I couldn't get through the rest - but I sincerely hope that you would enjoy them. Anne Rice’s writing is beautiful and deep. She’s a fabulous writer. I haven’t read anything by the author you’re mentioning, but I will check her out. Thank you so much for mentioning her to me, for reading my humble review and leaving such a kind comment. And for taking the time to read the discussion between me, Maria and Sabah. You’re wonderful.
I connected your avatar already to certain gothic leanings, Vessey, but did not notice your vampire inclinations yet :). Athough I seldom read Vampire stories, I love gothic music (and the film). Your wonderful depiction of these anti-heroes and the thought-provoking questions you pose here are delectably enticing.
Ilse wrote: "I connected your avatar already to certain gothic leanings, Vessey, but did not notice your vampire inclinations yet :). Athough I seldom read Vampire stories, I love gothic music (and the film). Y..."Ilse, I’m so glad you have loved the movie. (I decided to read the book exactly because of it). Then maybe you’ll love the novel too. Thank you for sparing the time to read my review and for your kind words. :)
Great review, fellow vampire fan :)
Sabah wrote: "Vessey, Thank you! It is so wonderful to read your beautiful, profoundly probing questions and thoughts again! This was the review that had you and Maria discussing the merits so well and I nearly ..."Thank you so much for everythig that you say and do, my outstanding friend. As always, I can only marvel at your goodness, passion and understanding of human nature, within and out of the realms of fiction. Thank you. :)
Artemis wrote: "Great review, fellow vampire fan :)"Hey, didn't know you were like me in this regard. Thanks, friend! Glad to see those 5 starts next to your name. Please write a review! :)
Vessey wrote: "Artemis wrote: "Great review, fellow vampire fan :)"Hey, didn't know you were like me in this regard. Thanks, friend! Glad to see those 5 starts next to your name. Please write a review! :)"
I did write a review - /review/show...
:) :)
Oh boy, I didn't think this book raised that many questions! It's funny because your review reminds me of my review of The Stranger! Have you read that one? Oh my god, I can't stop thinking about it. I need to read other works by Albert Camus. I'm definitely going to read this book at some point! Gorgeous review, Vessey :)
Lola wrote: "Oh boy, I didn't think this book raised that many questions! It's funny because your review reminds me of my review of The Stranger! Have you read that one? Oh my god, I can't stop thi..."Thank you! :) This one is truly a rare gem. I daresay it is the only good vampire story (and I consider both books and movies) I have come across. Very philosophical and the authorial voice is really gorgeous! Hope you like it. You may also try the movie version. It was what actually got me to read the book. :)
Let your goth out girl! Your review reminded me of how powerful this novel is. A reader can't read it without questioning all their views of what is right and wrong as you so astutely point out. Great stuff! It might have made the best seller list, but there is no fluff here. A bingo of a review.
Jeffrey wrote: "Let your goth out girl! Your review reminded me of how powerful this novel is. A reader can't read it without questioning all their views of what is right and wrong as you so astutely point out. Gr..."OMG, you did it again! Oh, thank you so much for reading my review and commenting, Jeffrey!
Let your goth girl out!
Are you sure about that? I've always thought I was handful enough as I am. But since you insist...Some fine neck you've got. :) Jeffrey, is this why you're afraid of people with perfect teeth? :)
It IS a best seller. Or at least it must have been at some point, because it's in 1001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die. That was what it was called, right? Did you know that Anne Rice is the creator of the modern vampire? Before this book they were all like Bram' Stoker's Dracula. (maybe with the exception of Carmilla). They say she was the first who gave a soul to her vampires. Unfortunately, the whole idea of the sensitive vampire was turned on its head from those that came after her and today what we have is...well, fluff, as you said.
Thank you SO much for liking it, my bingo of a friend. :)
Vampires! Vampires! Vampires! You need to grow up little sis :) Admittedly you are the only one who can make a vampire book sound like world literature and admittedly you even made me - no, sorry made me add this book and admittedly you ask most powerful questions, but still grow up :)
Sidharth wrote: "Vampires! Vampires! Vampires! You need to grow up little sis :) Admittedly you are the only one who can make a vampire book sound like world literature and admittedly you even made me - no, sorry m..."I refuse! Actually, since I have managed to persuade you to read this one, there might be a hope for Edward and Bella in the Sidharth universe, after all. :)
I actually have given first movie a chance for an hour only to learn that young girls have a bad taste when it comes to movies. In my defense it was a solitary night and I had nothing better to do because my sister had wasted the whole week to download the trilogy. And you know that guy who plays the Edward doesn't like the series either.
Very nice review, Vessey!! I haven't read this one though I did see the movie a long time ago. Lots of great questions!Happy reading my friend <3
Nice review; this book convinced me to stick with the series for another couple of books.
Deanna wrote: "Very nice review, Vessey!! I haven't read this one though I did see the movie a long time ago. Lots of great questions!Happy reading my friend <3"
Thank you so much, Deanna! I'm happy to know that you saw the movie. It was what made me want to read the book. Did you like it? :)
Lata wrote: "Nice review; this book convinced me to stick with the series for another couple of books."Thanks, Lata! I'm happy you enjoyed it as well. :)
Splendid reviewing there, Vessey! Coincidentally enough, my wife just bought a copy of this yesterday as a gift for our niece. Now I'm wondering if I can sneak a read in before she sends it off.
Vessey wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Very nice review, Vessey!! I haven't read this one though I did see the movie a long time ago. Lots of great questions!Happy reading my friend
Thank you so much, Deanna! I'm happy..."
I did like it (though it's been many years since I've seen it). Maybe I will watch it again some time :)
Steve wrote: "Splendid reviewing there, Vessey! Coincidentally enough, my wife just bought a copy of this yesterday as a gift for our niece. Now I'm wondering if I can sneak a read in before she sends it off."Aw, I hope you do, Steve! I'm really curious what you would make out of it. :) I hope your niece likes it too! Thank you so much for the kind words! :) P.S. You should also see the movie! :)
Deanna wrote: "Vessey wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Very nice review, Vessey!! I haven't read this one though I did see the movie a long time ago. Lots of great questions!Happy reading my friend
Thank you so much, De..."
Great! You should also read the book! It's even better! Hugs <3
Did you know that Anne Rice wrote this to deal with her grief when her 6 year old daughter died? It was the only way she could think of to resurrect her and make her immortal.
Diane Barnes, I had no idea! Wow. That is so sad.
Love your review, Vessey. Echo Jean-Paul - your many existential questions are beautiful.
Diane wrote: "Did you know that Anne Rice wrote this to deal with her grief when her 6 year old daughter died? It was the only way she could think of to resurrect her and make her immortal."I did! I am grateful for this amazing book and for the amazing character Claudia is, but I wish it hadn't all come at such price. Thanks, Diane!
Jean-Paul wrote: "I enjoyed your updates and greatly appreciated your review with its multitude of existential questions. Thank you for this, my friend, and I hope the next book will be in German.Vampir sein ist n..."
Well, I feel like a vampire myself, considering what a challenge I am sometimes. I am sure that more than once my friends have wanted to tell me "Woman, you suck the life out of me", but they are too good for that. :) Danke schön, mein Freund! Mein Lebenselixier sind Bucher. :)
Glenn wrote: "Love your review, Vessey. Echo Jean-Paul - your many existential questions are beautiful."You sweet man! Thanks, Glenn! As always, you are very kind. :)
Jean-Paul wrote: "Vessey wrote: "Jean-Paul wrote: "I enjoyed your updates and greatly appreciated your review with its multitude of existential questions. Thank you for this, my friend, and I hope the next book will..."Yeah, I knew that this was what you meant. I do remember that sentence from your review of Pallieter :) Thanks for making me laugh with your, as always, wonderful sense of humour. :)
Well, we don't have it in Bulgaria either. :) No, really! I don't have such option on my keyboard. So, just like you, I use double S. :)
Ich sehe, dass Du grosse Fortschritte gemacht hast!
I knew that! :) Danke sehr! :)
Sofie wrote: "You get it"I hope so. Thank you.
I am afraid that things are pretty much the same here. At least regarding Louis. And Lestat is present only in the first half, returning only near the end, so you may have a hard time liking the rest, but I do hope you find something enjoyable about it as well. I'm looking forward to your thoughts. :)