Books About Vampires

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Originally Posted by Bastet

Hello! Could you please develop this thought? I'm writing my phd project on Interview with the Vampire and I'm very interested in other people's opinions about it, even though they're not positive. Thank you!

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I liked it enough to read the other Vampire Chronicles, there were times when the action was very slow but then again, Louis is the main character in Interveiw and Louis is...one of the least dynamic of the vampires. :rolleyes: After having read several of the other Vampire Chronicles, I look at that first one as being a typical 'first of the series' book, it was finding it's place, it was finding it's focus and sometimes it went in odd directions but I think the it set up the world of Anne Rice vampires very well and I think it made that world intriguing enough, at least for me, to want to go back there...and it had Claudia who was incredibly creepy and disturbing and fascinating, she was really the highlight of the book for me.

Hello Idril, it was great to hear you say that about Claudia on your previous post. I am writing my project on her, so you can assume I definitely agree with you. Many people focus on Louis and Lestat (great character by the way, especially if you read The Vampire Lestat), but Claudia doesn't seem to have caught many people's attention

Actually, I felt Claudia was much more interesting and poignant than both Lestat and Lewis. She never had a chance to be anything but a vampire. I always thought it was so sad (and yes, very creepy) to have the mind of a sophisticated woman literally trapped in the body of a young child.

Claudia was the only character that really interested me, and I contemplated finishing it just to see what happened with her.

The song which made me want to read Interview with the Vampire in the first place was all about the character of Claudia:

"She wanders alone through the night
A child with eyes burning bright
She extends her arms for an embrace, a tiny smile
Ruby lips on a doll like face

The danger's a mystery here
As she invites you to hold her near
Her mirrored image could not be linked to
A woman's mind, so sharp and so distinct"

I thought the character sounded intriguing, and I was right - Claudia was the best thing about the book.

i didn't really like the book. i read it just a few days ago, and it was okay, but . . . nothing special. i did like the charater Louis, though . . . he has a great psychology. and claudia was cool too. the characters' thoughts and emotions and the way Anne Rice showed them was the only really good thing abut the book.

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Originally Posted by Bysshe

The song which made me want to read Interview with the Vampire in the first place was all about the character of Claudia:

"She wanders alone through the night
A child with eyes burning bright
She extends her arms for an embrace, a tiny smile
Ruby lips on a doll like face

The danger's a mystery here
As she invites you to hold her near
Her mirrored image could not be linked to
A woman's mind, so sharp and so distinct"

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Hello Bysshe, where did you read this song?

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Hello Bysshe, where did you read this song?

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The lyrics are from a song by The Damned, if that's what you mean. The song's called "The Dog", and it's from the 1982 Damned album "Strawberries", if you were wondering.

It's a beautiful song. :)

Thank you Bysshe, I was definitely wondering all those things! :)

Another good Vampire Novel would have to be the Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damed, Tale of the Body Thief, and pretty much all of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Although I really did not like the first one, Interview with the Vampire, it was truly dissapointing, as well as the chacter Louis.

Okay to add on to what I posted ealier, Louis is very irratating to me. He tries to find himself by over thinking, and thus confusing himself, He tries to hang on to his morality and it's not really working, well it does in a way. Partly Lestat is to blame for this to, but he he is a chacter that is used to knowing what to do, and thinks that others also already know what to do, and so he figures he dosn't have to teach them. Armand, don't even get me started on him, I really don't undersand him, he is just to full of suprises, one of thos chactcters that I really don't want to think about. Claudia, a evil witch, to put it simply, she minulpuates any one and everyone in her path. Look at what she did to Louis, she forced him to choose between her, or Lestat. And then, emotionallly blackmailed him in to creating another vampire, somthing I might add, he swore never to do again. I guess it's all realaive to what you look at and from there determining her chacter and nature. Granted, she is a great chacater, and to me she's one of those chacters that I love to hate. But, I guess the same thing can be said about Lestat, after all he is '...the damest thing.'

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Originally Posted by samah

I believe that the first one was Dracula by Stocker...

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I think it was Polidori's The Vampyre actually. and my favorite vampire novel is I am Legend by Richard Matheson (I'm really surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet), although I'm reading Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire right now and *so far* I like it.

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Originally Posted by kathycf

Actually, I felt Claudia was much more interesting and poignant than both Lestat and Louis. She never had a chance to be anything but a vampire. I always thought it was so sad (and yes, very creepy) to have the mind of a sophisticated woman literally trapped in the body of a young child.

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that's what's interested me, too. although, I have to admit I kind of like Louis' moping.

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Originally Posted by avari

...although, I have to admit I kind of like Louis' moping.

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I really didn't mind it that much in the first novel either but believe me, it gets old after awhile. :rolleyes: I guess I just kept expecting Louis to progress at some point, that we would either delve a little deeper into his character so that we would care a little more about him, have a deeper emotional stake in him and his life or that he would eventually come to some kind of peace about his state of being but neither of those things ever happen, he, as a character, never progresses past Interview.

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Originally Posted by Idril

he, as a character, never progresses past Interview.

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really? that's depressing, considering I was hoping he would.
oh well! I'll keep reading and maybe have some epiphany about life myself!

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Originally Posted by avari

really? that's depressing, considering I was hoping he would.
oh well! I'll keep reading and maybe have some epiphany about life myself!

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He's not featured in any of the other books, he's always a kind of afterthought, like she gets through the whole story without him, then realizes it so tries to go back and stick in a mention of him here and there. I don't think she herself knew what to do with him which is too bad because I certainly feel he had potential.

Hey Bastat, funny you should ask that question, given your name. My Queen Noctor (Noctors are the top of the food chain in Black Panther and consume vampires) will adopt this title as her identity later on in the book.

How's that for wrapping everything neatly together under one post?

BUT as to your question, IWAV was a better movie, I think. Anne Rice's style is not my favorite. The character of Lewis, however, was compelling, given his angst. Once he accepted his nature though, he became quite droll.

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