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Advantages: Interesting, thrilling, funny, almost tragic
Disadvantages: No Lestat for Lestats lil groupies *grins*

The Vampire Pandora is asked to tell the story of her life, how she was born into darkness, and how she has survived so long. It's a wonderfully written life story, from Pandora's childhood to meeting her lover Marius for the first time, to coming into the "savage garden" as Lestat and Louis may say. It's a brilliant book for those wanting to see the Vampire life from an ancient females point of view, which isn't seen often through the Vampire Chronicles. ... Read review

Advantages: Hot vampire/werewolf naughtiness with spooky thrills.
Disadvantages: Too many ramblings about relationships at the expense of the plot.

...have been sharply divided over the direction this longstanding series has taken: a quick Google will bring up some highly entertaining spats on assorted chat forums. Basically, if you enjoyed the earlier books but got freaked out by the kinky sex that started featuring more and more heavily after Narcissus in Chains then there's going to be plenty more to freak you through the wall and back in this one. However, if you enjoy great chunks of spooky ... Read review

Advantages: good book
Disadvantages: none

Interview with a Vampire is the first book from the Vampire Chronicles. Louis a land owner from Louisiana relates his life story. After his brother dies his life doesn't make any sense and he searches death every were he goes. Lestat a vampire falls in love with Louis and transforms him into a vampire.After living for a period of time together in Louisiana they run to New Orleans where Louis finds Claudia an orphan and after draining her Lestat ... Read review

Advantages: Very interesting, good writing,well rounded characters, etc
Disadvantages: none

...book. It's a change from the vampire novels she usually writes with a twist; and each moment in the first section had me looking forward to the moment when Ramses would rise and make himself known to the outside world. The plot is interesting and it makes you melt away into the book as usual; as well as the characters are well rounded unlike many such books of its kind. It's not scary like Stephen King novels, jsut unusual and brilliant. PLOT: This ...
...originally intended to be the script for a movie is what I heard, until the makers of the movie decided to change nearly everything. It is about what happens when an archaeologist find the mummy, Ramses II and then after he dies, the mummy and the archaeologist's treasures are given to his daughter Julie in England who finds that the mummy comes to life to be a man. ... Read review

Advantages: Book scares you into uncontrolled bowel movements
Disadvantages: May cause the reader to go into shock

...of macabre himself composed of four chilling short stories or novellas. If you love horror stories that can drive you into paranoia and have you sleeping with the lights on THIS IS THE PERFECT NOVEL TO READ. This book is composed of very different and intensely chilling novellas. These are: The Langoliers: This begins where passengers who have been sleeping on a plan wake up to find they are alone and that those who were awake have disappeared; and ...
...but I am going to tell you that from there, things take a horrifying turn, and no, it's nothing like the average airplane movie and does not include terrorists. Secret Window Secret Garden: A man accused of plagarism The Library Policeman: You have to read this. This is just sick, and scary. It's about the main character sam who has a terrifying encounter with "the library policeman" when he was younger and is now afraid to set foot in a library. ... Read review