Interview with the Vampire is the first book out of Rice's Vampire Chronicles. It was published in 1976 , the copy I own was published on 1988 but I read it until 1993 0r 1994. As I said before I like it because it was the very first vampire book I ever read and well here it goes.
The book is basically a vampire (Louis) giving an interview (duh!). The vampire and the interviewer are locked up in a San Francisco room ( not Louis room "Just a room" he says) and as Louis begins to tell his story the boy ( as he refers to) begins to believe that he is a vampire and by the time you are on the 6th or 10th page the boy has already bought it all. Louis' story begins on 1791 as he gets into a full detailed story from his pre-vamp days to the late 70´s San Francisco he is living in by the time he gives the interview. He tells the story of how his maker, Lestat, showed him the beauty of the dark gift ond how Louis (continously) rejects his new vampire nature. The way Louis lived through his first centuries and how he came to get used to be the monster he thinks he is.
The story, in my opinion, is not as good as other of Rice's stories. However, it has an amazing way to wrap you into it's atmosphere and take you to each and every single one of the places where the vampires travel to. You can taste, smell and sometimes even feel the surroundings. It can get almost too detailed for some but it is part of the experience of seeing through the vampires eyes. The awe on everything that surrounds them and the passionate way they feel about everything. Life, music, blood, outfits. Everything has a passionate point of view.
The first time I read it I remember how sad I felt for Louis as I re-read the story I get to a point when I feel like screaming "Stop Whining, Louis" but the truth is that this book gives you, through Louis, an amazing insight of his own personality and makes you believe what an asshole Lestat is.
There are awkward moments on the book like the relationship between Louis and Claudia, a 5 year old illegaly made vampire child, that for some might scream Pedophile!! and the relationship Armand tries to start with Louis which might seem like an homosexual relationship. The truth is that after reading other books from the Chronicles you get to realize, at least I did, that it wasn't anything like that. It's just that Anne Rice's vampires admire, above all things, beauty. The beauty that the Rice's vampires behold is different from any other vampire character I've ever read. They found everything beautiful and when they get to find something that intrigues them for their beauty they usually feel drawn to that. In the end it is all pure love through the eyes of a vampire.
If you are the type of person that likes a book written in a more serious way that the vampire books we all read today (which I love!) and also like a bit of sarcasm ( provided by our own Lestat). This is a book that you should read. If you like the dark kind of literature where everything is tortured and drama-like, where love is the tortured kind of love and the friendship is the complicated kind of friendship and where there is always something missing in life. Then, this is a book you should read.
The truth is that Interview with the Vampire is dense but it is the foreplay to a whole world of fantasy and dark humor that brings on the next series of books. The truth is that if you love vampires this is a book that you must read.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
The book is basically a vampire (Louis) giving an interview (duh!). The vampire and the interviewer are locked up in a San Francisco room ( not Louis room "Just a room" he says) and as Louis begins to tell his story the boy ( as he refers to) begins to believe that he is a vampire and by the time you are on the 6th or 10th page the boy has already bought it all. Louis' story begins on 1791 as he gets into a full detailed story from his pre-vamp days to the late 70´s San Francisco he is living in by the time he gives the interview. He tells the story of how his maker, Lestat, showed him the beauty of the dark gift ond how Louis (continously) rejects his new vampire nature. The way Louis lived through his first centuries and how he came to get used to be the monster he thinks he is.
The story, in my opinion, is not as good as other of Rice's stories. However, it has an amazing way to wrap you into it's atmosphere and take you to each and every single one of the places where the vampires travel to. You can taste, smell and sometimes even feel the surroundings. It can get almost too detailed for some but it is part of the experience of seeing through the vampires eyes. The awe on everything that surrounds them and the passionate way they feel about everything. Life, music, blood, outfits. Everything has a passionate point of view.
The first time I read it I remember how sad I felt for Louis as I re-read the story I get to a point when I feel like screaming "Stop Whining, Louis" but the truth is that this book gives you, through Louis, an amazing insight of his own personality and makes you believe what an asshole Lestat is.
There are awkward moments on the book like the relationship between Louis and Claudia, a 5 year old illegaly made vampire child, that for some might scream Pedophile!! and the relationship Armand tries to start with Louis which might seem like an homosexual relationship. The truth is that after reading other books from the Chronicles you get to realize, at least I did, that it wasn't anything like that. It's just that Anne Rice's vampires admire, above all things, beauty. The beauty that the Rice's vampires behold is different from any other vampire character I've ever read. They found everything beautiful and when they get to find something that intrigues them for their beauty they usually feel drawn to that. In the end it is all pure love through the eyes of a vampire.
If you are the type of person that likes a book written in a more serious way that the vampire books we all read today (which I love!) and also like a bit of sarcasm ( provided by our own Lestat). This is a book that you should read. If you like the dark kind of literature where everything is tortured and drama-like, where love is the tortured kind of love and the friendship is the complicated kind of friendship and where there is always something missing in life. Then, this is a book you should read.
The truth is that Interview with the Vampire is dense but it is the foreplay to a whole world of fantasy and dark humor that brings on the next series of books. The truth is that if you love vampires this is a book that you must read.
Have a Fangtastic Tale
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