Product:
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Date: 29.11.00 (188 review reads) Rating:
Advantages: brilliantly written, suspense, dark beauty, atmosphere, great
characters...
Disadvantages: absolutely no idea! Please excuse the corny title but I just couldn't resist... :-) I've read most of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. They are amazing! The best bit of (modern) fiction I've read in ages for entertainment value, suspense, eroticism, atmosphere and all. The vampire novels are just great in their fascinating descriptions of dark beauty, Anne Rice's vampires aren't just scary evil creatures, they're stunningly attractive, clever, sometimes even comical. The vampire chronicles aren't mere horror stories, they can be highly philosophical circling around questions of life, death, good, evil, heaven and hell. By far the most fascinating of them all is Lestat de Lioncourt whose story is told in this second volume of the vampire chronicles. Lestat does away with the rather unflattering portrait given of him by his fledgling Louis in "Interview with the vampire", the first volume of the chronicles. (The novel the film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas etc. is based on). Some of the mysteries of the first volume suddenly fall into place and a new picture of Lestat emerges. For me he is one of the most alluring characters in modern popular fiction! Instantly fell in love while reading. :-) He's dazzling. Decadent, proud, spoilt but sensitive and ravishingly beautiful (of course), romantic, blood-thirsty, arrogant, moody, pretentious but still absolutely sympathetic. The book recounts the story of Lestat's life, his life in France, his "flight" to paris with his friend Nicholas where they want to live an artists' life. His acting carreer, how he became a vampire and his life in the "Theatre des Vampires". The story of this life is thrilling, exciting (homo)erotic, dark and fascinating. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, you have to read it! Boredom doesn't stand a chance and even though the book is rather long y ou can hardly stop and aren't satisfied before you haven't read it to the last page. Then you are almost sorry to have to leave Lestat but there's comfort! Volumes three, four, five and six are waiting for you... Volume three "Queen of the Damned" is currently being adapted to film, I'm looking forward to that! I'm all yours, Monsieur de Lioncourt...forever! ;-)) **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112)
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