The Vampire Lestat (Rice, Anne, Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Bk.)
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Paperback
Published: 1997-11-29
ISBN: 0345419642
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Bon Jovi with fangs.
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm sorry, but this is probably my least favorite book in the Vampire series.
I just can't get past the whole Lestat on stage singing about his Vampire ways.
UUGH...........corny and annoying.
His back story is the only reason to read this book, but on a whole it's a sad follow up to Interview.
If you're that interested in Lestat's back story then sure, go ahead and read it.
I'm not going to recommend this book just because the whole rock star slant is just too stupid to even be believable.
Pass
Summary of The Vampire Lestat (Rice, Anne, Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Bk.)
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
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
"Frightening, sensual."
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