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The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles) [Mass Market Paperback]

Anne Rice (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Publication Date: 31 Oct 1993 | Series: Vampire Chronicles (Book 4)
"A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (31 Oct 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 034538475X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345384751
  • Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 12 x 17 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 713,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Supernatural horror that seems to have everything - passions, originality, imagination, narrative power, kinky sexuality and a superbly drawn otherworldly protagonist (The Washington Post )

An enchanting tale (Publishers Weekly ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Electrifying, erotic, terrifying - the fourth book in the Vampire Chronicles is as rich, as violent, as sensual as the runaway bestsellers that precede it (20031208) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4.3 out of 5 stars
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the wait! 15 Sep 2003
By Anne Rice Fan
Format:Paperback
After reading the first 3 books in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles,I had such a job finding a copy of the Tale of the Body Thief, but it was well worth the wait. I had to read later chronicles to keep me going, as anyone enjoying Anne Rice's vampires will tell you their world becomes addictive, but there was always a missing link.I found that missing link when I read the body thief, alot became so clear. So, as a fan of the vampire chronicles I would urge anyone thinking of reading them to try and read them in order. This an excellent book highly recommended!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Toying with your emotions 5 Dec 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
One for Lestat lovers. Rice toys with your emotions in this one. Oh how you want Lestat to be human! Powerfull imigary as always, paving the way to the next in the series. A clever ending, I was about to turn off the light towards the end of the book but had to read the last two chapters. It was 4am.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good reading, but not her best 13 Dec 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I think that any serious Anne Rice fan will agree with me when I say that this volume of the Vampire Chronicles is fun and interesting to read, but definitely not as thought provoking and deep as her first two. But it's fun to see how Lestat deals with being human again, and the end is a little infuriating. It makes you want to chastise Lestat personally. The ability that Anne Rice has of getting you emotionally involved in her novels always amazes me, but this involvement has never been as intense as in The Vampire Lestat and Interview...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Rice simultaneously a literary genius and insane? 8 July 2010
By Rebecca
Format:Paperback
Why did I like this book so much? Why is Anne Rice simultaneously a literary genius and insane?
I shouldn't have liked this book, anyway; there were a lot of little things that irked me while I was reading it - but in the end, there I was completely engrossed again. Raglan is a kickass weirdo of a character (and her descriptions of his movements in the fantastically creepy lead-up to his introduction have stuck with me for half a decade now); she's still obviously a liiiittle bit too obsessively in love with her own Lestat, to the point the brattiness he (and she) takes such pride in gets annoying, but his first (re)impressions of the human world are, like everything Ricean, so expertly crafted and weirdly insightful that I ended up thinking of this book every time I drank orange juice for something like six months.
Also, he finally gets to have sex with someone! Or, you know, a lot of someones. Bizarrely, for an author whose entire oeuvre ooooozes unresolved sexual tension, it was deeply anticlimactic (har). Pages were flipped with a depressing since of Ew what do you even see in her, Eurgh he is SO OLD, Ugh you are supposed to be on a MISSION what is this, etc.
Also Louis was in it for approximately ten seconds, which is not NEARLY enough
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5.0 out of 5 stars Carry on anne rice! 17 Mar 2003
By "krazy_kaviar"
Format:Hardcover
Since becoming an anne rice fan, it been hard to put nearly any of her books down, this is no exception!

Lestat after becoming a rock star and waking up Akasha and surviving, makes friends with David from the Talamasca. Then after the incident in the Gobi desert (i'll let you find out for yourself what happened), is approached by James Raglan, a former Talamasca employee but fired due to his theft and disloyalty to them, and asks if Lestat would like to become human for a week by switching bodies. How is Lestat to refuse this offer? However, Lestat under estimates James who takes away his supernatural body including his new powers aquired from the queen. How is a mere human as Lestat now is goin to catch James, a powerful vampire?

The story unfolds, drawing you in, into an adventure of skill and deception.
A must read for anne rice fans, i guarentee you'll enjoy it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars gripping book 7 Oct 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I thought this book was brilliant, and in my opinion probably the best in the vampire chronicles. Not only you read more about Lestat's adventures but it is in a completely different environment as it relates lestat's experiences as a human being. This book is definitely for Vampires stories' lovers but can also be a very good first book for new people to this genre. Enjoy!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST!! 22 Dec 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
During the past few months i have been simply enchanted by reading Rice's works! In the Tale of the Body Thief, Ann Rice left me stunned and emotionally moved. The way she can makes you glued to a book is utterly amazing! I literally could not put it down!
This book is another erotic and sensual book which i suggest any real Ann Rice fan should read! Many reviews i have read comment on what Lestat does to David Talbot at the end. I however i'm attracted to Lestat's evil and wicked character!
A must!!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fanatstic! Need I say more 16 Aug 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This book was really good, It made me love these books even more. The whole story was fantastic, i lloved it where louis refuses Lestat and Lestat the Vampire who is inside a mortal body turns toi his friend david for help and suceeds. I was really into this story. I don't usually read but these chronicles are just so fantastic this is one of the best out of them all. that I have read so far
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
Excellent book, if you love stories with Lestat this is another good book to follow with! (I would recommend reading them in order) You meet many new characters in the book and it... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Lizz
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
An excellent chapter of the vampire chronicles with Lestat becoming mortal and rediscovering humanity again like a young teenager. So well written. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2010 by R. Martin
4.0 out of 5 stars Lestat, j'taime!
Another captivating tale with our beloved Lestat aas the centrepiece. Life can be good to us sometimes. Read more
Published on 10 July 2010 by Tohru
3.0 out of 5 stars ok story, but you do not miss anything if you don't read it
This one i think was my least favourite one so far. I have read it and it was a good adventure story, but as title says, you would not miss it if you don't read it. Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by mrskvetoslavac
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Entertainment!
I always thought that the 'true' Vampire Chronicles comprised of only the first three books, and I overlooked this one completely. Read more
Published on 4 April 2009 by John
3.0 out of 5 stars Lestat's interminable angst
THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF is one of those books I normally wouldn't pick up unless stranded alone on a deserted island with no other diversions. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2006 by Joseph Haschka
3.0 out of 5 stars J'adore Lestat
I read this expecting the cosmic significance of the Queen of the Damned, with its time span of centuries and a threat to the basic patriarchal organisation of human society by an... Read more
Published on 6 May 2004 by MonkeyReviewer
3.0 out of 5 stars Lestat's interminable angst
THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF is one of those books I normally wouldn't pick up unless stranded alone on a deserted island with no other diversions. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2003 by Joseph Haschka
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