Post by josef13 on Oct 21, 2009 14:47:41 GMT -5
I am in awe that there has been no thread made for Anne Rice yet. I must admit I just started her first 'Vampire Chronicles' novel titled 'Interview with the Vampire'. I picked up a beautiful leatherbound edition from Barnes and Noble that contains the first three novels in the series of ten (?) books. Quite a few of her novel have been made into television and movies.
Interview with the Vampire was originally published in 1976; 'having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.'
See more of Anne Rice and her other series at: www.annerice.com/
See the leatherbound edition by Barnes and Noble: search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Vampire-Chronicles/Anne-Rice/e/9780307291653/?cds2Pid=18569
Interview with the Vampire was originally published in 1976; 'having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.'
See more of Anne Rice and her other series at: www.annerice.com/
See the leatherbound edition by Barnes and Noble: search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Vampire-Chronicles/Anne-Rice/e/9780307291653/?cds2Pid=18569