I've decided to start the review/rant/comment on the books of Anne Rice, the one's I've read and like. Why? Because there's where my love for vampires began. I got to admit that the books are actually difficult to read, sometimes to understand. I loved them because as a young girl I was easily impressed by the idea of a world where vampires lived among humans but as the years went by I found some characters deeply insightful.
For many people it is difficult to understand why my favorite Character is Lestat but it is usually because they haven't read past the first book or worst seen the movie. The truth is that Lestat de Lioncourt is a very deep character, his take on life is quite dark but still hopeful. He is always hoping to find a reason to enjoy his dark gift.
I live in a country where 16 years ago it was difficult to find books, at least the books I like to read. I always loved to read dark more adult like books (First non-school book at age 9: The Picture of Dorian Grey) and preferably in English. So, it took me years and years to find the Vampire Chronicles in english.
By the time I got around to get a copy of Lestat the Vampire I was already 20 years old and going through a post-adolescent depression. As I read Lestat's story I found myself agreeing with his rants about life and its meaning, I found myself wrapped around his dark, emotional state of mind. I found that state of mind very similar to the one I was experiencing at the time.
Queen of the Damned was with me in another stage of my life where escaping to a world of fiction, of king and queens, to ancient egypt and, of course, Lestat brought me a better understanding of the world I was living in. The real world.
And then, The Tale of the Body Thief came into my life in a moment where love and sadness were a constant (yeah, I sound very emoish. I'm emo in housewife disguise). The Tale of the Body Thief is my favorite book out of all the ones I've read in the Chronicles. Lestat showed me that, once again, we were very similar to an extent. Lestat fell in love and while I read his own experience with a relationship that could not happen, I was going through my own experience with love and life. Lestat was my confident and The Tale of the Body Thief was my shelter.
The Vampire Chronicles are very important to me. I love them with a passion and even thought, re-reading them is sometimes hard becasue my state of mind is not alwasy dark I owe them a lot because they were my companions through several stages of my life where I was looking for empathy and I found that in Lestat.
That is the reason why my next entry will probably be Interview with the Vampire. It will be from my own point of view but it will be fun and deep and I might even make fun of my teenage self because as I re-read the books I found certain things that back in the day made me wonder and now that I am less.... naive, let's say, I get to understand. So we have a date with Lestat and Louis next time. How about that?
Have a Fangtastic Tale
For many people it is difficult to understand why my favorite Character is Lestat but it is usually because they haven't read past the first book or worst seen the movie. The truth is that Lestat de Lioncourt is a very deep character, his take on life is quite dark but still hopeful. He is always hoping to find a reason to enjoy his dark gift.
I live in a country where 16 years ago it was difficult to find books, at least the books I like to read. I always loved to read dark more adult like books (First non-school book at age 9: The Picture of Dorian Grey) and preferably in English. So, it took me years and years to find the Vampire Chronicles in english.
By the time I got around to get a copy of Lestat the Vampire I was already 20 years old and going through a post-adolescent depression. As I read Lestat's story I found myself agreeing with his rants about life and its meaning, I found myself wrapped around his dark, emotional state of mind. I found that state of mind very similar to the one I was experiencing at the time.
Queen of the Damned was with me in another stage of my life where escaping to a world of fiction, of king and queens, to ancient egypt and, of course, Lestat brought me a better understanding of the world I was living in. The real world.
And then, The Tale of the Body Thief came into my life in a moment where love and sadness were a constant (yeah, I sound very emoish. I'm emo in housewife disguise). The Tale of the Body Thief is my favorite book out of all the ones I've read in the Chronicles. Lestat showed me that, once again, we were very similar to an extent. Lestat fell in love and while I read his own experience with a relationship that could not happen, I was going through my own experience with love and life. Lestat was my confident and The Tale of the Body Thief was my shelter.
The Vampire Chronicles are very important to me. I love them with a passion and even thought, re-reading them is sometimes hard becasue my state of mind is not alwasy dark I owe them a lot because they were my companions through several stages of my life where I was looking for empathy and I found that in Lestat.
That is the reason why my next entry will probably be Interview with the Vampire. It will be from my own point of view but it will be fun and deep and I might even make fun of my teenage self because as I re-read the books I found certain things that back in the day made me wonder and now that I am less.... naive, let's say, I get to understand. So we have a date with Lestat and Louis next time. How about that?
Have a Fangtastic Tale
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