Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceReader: Richard Grant
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1992-10-04
ISBN: 0679411623
Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Reviews of Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)
Book Review: If you like reading Anne Rice do not buy this book
Summary: 1 Stars
I loved the first 2 in the series, got to this one and it was pure torture. i consider myself a fast reader, i can finish a book in about 3 days. This one took me over 2 years to finish reading. I would read a few pages then decide to read somthin eelse. run out of books and go back to it. When it was all said and done it only left me with the desire to never crack open a book taht has her name printed on it.
Summary of Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)
The new audio in the bestselling Vampire Chronicles that began with Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned.Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. But now his covens are scattered. Lestat is alone. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, he embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has ever undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.
The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the mesmerizing passion, power, color and invention that distinguish the extraordinary novels of Anne Rice.
Richard E. Grant's film credits include Henry and June, L.A. Story, The Player, Dracula, and The Age of Innocence.
It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.
The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo
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