Vampire Chronicles #01: Interview with the Vampire

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Alyssa Van Meter, January 3, 2011 (view all comments by Alyssa Van Meter)
This is the most epic book i have ever read! It's filled with passion, and yet filled with a gothic gloom of seeing through a vampire's eyes.

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Mariah Jensen, September 29, 2010 (view all comments by Mariah Jensen)
I've always wanted to read a gothic, truly vampire story, and I've always heard Anne Rice was the one who made those books possible. I never really thought that I would find her book "Interview with the Vampire" at my school library, but when I did I was estatic. I devored and finished the book in a day and a half and I now know what a real vampire story is. Anne Rice crafted a masterpiece when she wrote this book. I highly reccomend you read it!

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emmejo, August 28, 2010 (view all comments by emmejo)
Louis is a 200 year old vampire. He has lived many lives, known many people and other vampires, struggled with balancing his remaining human thoughts and tendencies with the necessities of vampiric life and seen history being made. Now he is going to share his story with the world.

I have to admit to being disappointed with this book. It is not that the plot or characters are poorly crafted, indeed, they are quite interesting. However I had a strong dislike for the writing in this book. It was extremely melodramatic and Rice clearly had an absurd love of wordy, overused, cliche terms and descriptions. When there were not enough ridiculous, but well known, terms already in the English language, she seemingly spliced them together, resulting in some completely foolish words when used as descriptions for vampires. (When Louis called himself a "supermortal" I groaned aloud and hit myself in the forehead with this book. Luckily it's not very large, so no harm was done.)

Having read Lestat, which is not a masterpiece but not bad either, I guess you can tell what an advantage 10 years of practice gives. I recommend those interested in Anne Rice's works skip this one and just start with Lestat. You don't need the torture.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780345337665

Author:

Rice, Anne

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Non-Classifiable

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Psychological

Subject:

Horror

Subject:

Vampires

Subject:

Horror tales

Subject:

Lestat (fictitious character)

Subject:

Lestat

Subject:

Horror - General

Subject:

Horror fiction

Subject:

General Fiction

Copyright:

1976

Edition Description:

Mass market paperback

Series:

Vampire Chronicles (Paperback)

Series Volume:

01

Publication Date:

September 1991

Binding:

MASS MARKET

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

352

Dimensions:

7.2 x 4.2 x 4.3 in 2.2 lb