Advantages: good story, really interesting, gripping Disadvantages: the tenses (see review)
it would be hard for any author to have to set a story out this way. The only author that comes to mind that has not only a weird way of telling a story, but who is such a clever author is Meg Cabot... However Cabot has yet to write a book quite like this one in the same format... And I sure hope AnneRice's books get better and better.
The story line is pretty simple. You start off by following this young interviewer who is also a journalist. Recently a guy, called Louis, is claiming to be a vampire, told this interviewer that he wants his story to be known. So we follow the interviewer who is going to see this vampire.
Louis then decides to tell the interviewer about his life, how he was before and how he was when he turned and then the rest of his life up until now. However the interviewer wants more and more and so therefore ...
Advantages: beautiful gothic masterpiece Disadvantages: can be long winded
i love AnneRice her expression of beauty of the way she paints her scenes so when you imagine her scenes she has already painted the picture for you. I love her characters too even the cruel but somehow loveable Lestat i love Louis but his self lothing did begin to grind alittle.
The only problem i have with AnneRice is that she over explain everything from a flower to a room i once counted over 40 pages of a situation that could have been sorted in 10 pages but that is the beauty of Rice too. I love finishing her books because it feels i've conquered something impossible as i have a short attention span. I feel if you want to read beauty, romance and a good splash of New Orleans then read this gothic masterpiece stick with it it'll be worth it in the end
This is Louis jouney on finding a peace he has not known still his wife ...
Advantages: Brilliant combination of suspense and philosophy Disadvantages: There really aren't any
I’m not sure what my fascination is with AnneRice.
Before reading Interview with the Vampire, the only other horror novels I’d read were Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I’ve never even read a page of a Stephen King novel!
Shocked?
Well, I am.
I have an innate desire for horror of this kind: realism and humility. Not the bad monster-type that relies heavily on a ‘science fantasy’ imagination, but AnneRice’s type that interlinks with society, religion and that the vampires of Rice’s novels live with us.
Chilling concept: that vampires exist?
No, no. That isn’t what I mean. Rice’s vampires have personalities, they differ: they suffer, they ‘live’, they philosophise, they’re kind, they’re greedy: they epitomise ...
