Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-03-18
ISBN: 0345409647
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Interview with the Vampire
Summary: 5 Stars
Book Review: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
A wealthy plantation owner, by the name Louis, grieves over his suicidal brother when he was changed by the vampire Lestat in the late seventeen hundreds. Lestat's, pompous and selfish being, drives him to taking Louis's human life for his money but also for a companion. Now immortal, Louis must accept his changed body and gather the knowledge of the rare vampire race. Will he be able to find other vampires like him and can teach him about their history and ways of living? More importantly, will he be able to set aside his human morals, and kill innocents for the blood needed to survive? Read the book to find out,
Finally, a book that is told in the perspective of a vampire and doesn't involve teenage love! This book, by far was the best vampire book I have ever read! Published in 1973, Anne Rice gave a new perspective of the stereotypical vampire. Set in mostly Louisiana and Paris, she gives plenty of information that allows the reader to clearly visualize the wonderful sight that Paris would have been in the seventeen hundreds. The background and bits and pieces of history that she gave about Louisiana and Paris made me feel like I was actually there in that time period.
Written in first person, Anne Rice, wrote the book to not only give readers a new perspective of blood sucking monsters but also to find her religious point of view. Louis, who was Catholic, struggles to find himself as a vampire in the spiritual word of God and begins to doubt if there even is a God, for he believes he has become the son of Satan and will be damned forever. This clearly shows Anne's struggle to find her religious beliefs.
The overall theme of the book was marvelous! What I took from the book was to accept the person you really are no matter what others think. It also told me to love your family with all your heart and to not take them for granted. Louis, who will live forever, becomes saddened with the death of his family members and friends because their lives end and his will go on forever until he has no one.
Once again this book was such a great read and truly should be kept with your other favorite books. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves Vampire Lore, and wants to read a true classical masterpiece. This book left me thirsty for more!
Summary of Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles)
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. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. 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. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. 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. 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 of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley
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