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once again, I don't get it

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I'll be honest. I didn't care for Interview with the Vampire. I didn't like Rice's version of vampire life and their mythos. I didn't enjoy the love/hate/love/HATE relationship the characters had with each other and themselves. I decided to give lestat a try, a last hurrah for Ann Rice books if you will. This will be the last Ann Rice book I read. Normally I don't put spoilers in my reviews but I can't help voice my issues with the book without them. So consider yourself warned! Right off the bat this book jumps the shark. Lestat as a ROCK STAR. We even get to read some of his rock band's lyrics! These were just laughable. Being a child of the 80s and loving 80s rock and metal music I've seen and heard my fair share of cheesey lyrics. The 'songs' in this book are far worse than most 80s cheese I can think of.. Luckily the book veers off into what made Lestat the vampire he would become in short order. Lestat's history was somewhat interesting, seeing him come to terms with his 'rebirth'. Once again however, we get a brooding and sexually confused monster who hates himself to the point of not wanting to go on.....but doesn't want to die either. The constant 'I hate my life, i love my life, I hate my life, I love my life' got very old very quick. This book is narrated after interview was, so the reader also gets Lestat's viewpoint on some of the happenings of the first book. This was another sore point with me. From lestat's point of view, he was a rather 'nice guy' to Louis. According to Louis in interview, Lestat was practically Satan. I can understand two people (even in real life) having very different versions of what actually happened, but to have them so completely opposite of one another just didn't sit well with me. I could go on, but I won't. I've seen several reviews saying that Ann Rice made vampires 'sexy' again and whatnot. I don't agree. Rather than exciting creatures of great power and mystery, I find her rendition of these monsters of legend to be quite depressing.

My favorite of the series!	Customer Rating:
In this book, you get to learn of Lestat's past, and how he became a vampire. The writing style of this series (the first 3 anyway), is what makes them my favorite vampire novels.

Small book	Customer Rating:
The book was fine, except that the description did not sound like a small book and I sent it back because I wanted a regular sized book.

Lestat gets to tell his story.

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Second in the Vampire Chronicles. Lestat, the misunderstood vampire who created Louis in Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story here. We see, from Lestat's perspective, many of the same events described by Louis in the first book. While recovering from Claudia's attack, Lestat rests underground for many years. He is finally drawn back into life in the 1980's. He is entranced by the music of a garage band named Satan's Night Out. He rises, introduces himself to the band, and promises them that they will soon be famous. He takes charge of the band and creates a barrage of music and videos while also writing a memoir. Lestat feels that Louis got many things wrong and he is determined to set the record straight. As Lestat recounts the story of his life, he also spills many secrets, his own as well as those of powerful vampires. Lestat's quest for fame might just bring him the recognition he deserves--and then some.

A Gothic Tale with A Modern Perspective

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The Vampire Lestat is an enigmatic, gripping character iconic of the modern era: a man, however immortal, searching for not only a meaning that does not exist but an origin that defies everything anyone's ever said. A paradoxical being, he murders shamelessly but will only kill the villain. He rebels and yet is the iconoclast of many. He is everything Louis said about him in Interview with The Vampire, but he is so much more. Lestat is the most compelling antihero I've had the pleasure of reading in a long time, and his "autobiography" is a beautiful piece of literature.