Entrevista amb el vampir : cròniques vampíriques

I wish I felt good giving it a better rating, but to be honest, it was underwhelming.
When I first tried to read it, I dnf'd when Louis gets all whiny. This time around I had the audio CD, so I kept listening, while I cleaned, and while I traveled, and when I went grocery shopping and so on. I went through the motions and I listened to the vampire tell his very sad story and I felt nothing.
Sure, I did feel Claudia was creepy and I am a bit curious about Lestat, but seeing them through Louis' eyes is just dull. The most exciting moments in the book were cut by this guy's moralizing and philosophizing and it's just meh.
I am going to continue the series because Lestat sounds much more interesting and fun and knowing what happens in the next two books, I want to read it by myself. ( )

Normally, I'm not a fan of era novels. This is the reason I dislike reading the classics, unless I feel motivated to (like if it's for a grade, though I'm not longer in school so that's a pretty outdated reason). Anne Rice had a way to let me forget I what I was reading. I actually fell into the novel pretty swiftly. Sadly, it wasn't enough to keep me interested.

Louis isn't a strong vampire character, at least not at first. I'm still unsure if he was meant to grow into one at the end of the novel, or just become disenchanted by the whole ordeal. Surely, even though he continued to say that the human side of him was dead at the end, I still saw the same old character of the beginning. He was damaged and he was pushed to his limits, like any good character should be, but in the end he was to remain the same old vampire.

I'm not sure what I've learned from this, or that I've taken anything from it other than the details of vampire life in Rice's series. One thing I do know is that the novel felt longer at the end. The prose began to be a bit tedious. Though, it's the first one I've read from my list. It's either up or down hill from this. (Mas) ( )

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I only recently got around to reading this book, I have seen the movie many times. I love the movie, it is one of my favorites and I watch it every October. I knew the story pretty well going in and it still entertained me. That being said, I like the movie better.

Its rare, but it happens sometimes. I found in the movie, I loved Claudia, in the book, not so much. Same goes for Louis. I have always disliked Lestat. The story was still the one I liked, but I found I would rather watch it than read it.

The format is a little odd, there aren't really chapters. There are just paragraphs upon paragraphs of Louis talking. I didn't like it very much. It was somewhat annoying.

I have never read any other Anne Rice books, and I don't think I will, this makes for a great story, in my opinion, it is one that works better being seen than read. ( )

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