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Interview With The Vampire: Number 1 in series (Vampire Chronicles) Hardcover – 31 Dec 1981

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Anne Rice (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Sphere (31 Dec. 1981)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0751595039
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751595031
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (160 customer reviews)

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One of the most wonderful, erotic, sensual books ever written (Sting)

A spine-chilling nightmare... highly accomplished... an impressive feat of imagination (SUNDAY TIMES)

Thrilling... a strikingly original work of the imagination...unforgettable. (WASHINGTON POST)

The most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's DRACULA. (THE TIMES) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Reissue of the first volume of Anne Rice's celebrated Vampire Chronicles - a cult classic. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 starsWhere it all began......
By Ms. Emma H. Mitchell on 2 Feb. 2015
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
I first read this book when I was 13 (I won't tell you how long ago that was!!!) I recently finished again over the weekend, and the power of the storytelling is still there even after the book was first published in the mid 1970's.

Louis is a 200 year old who one evening tells his story over to a young reporter for his radio show. The boy is at first frightened and taken aback by the fact that this man is actually a vampire, but lets him tell is story in anycase.

It starts in 1791 when Louis suffers a family tragedy and the vampire who made him (Lestat) takes advantage of this and gives Louis eternal life (or damnation however you want to look at it). The story unfolds of his life with his new companion, his burgeoning dislike for him and his wanting to leave him and find other vampires that can help with his education of who he is - devil or saviour.

Enter lenfant terrible - Claudia, his one love. Made a vampire as child, she grows up infront of their eyes, not physically, but mentally and philosophically coming to the point where Louis did so many years ago, wanting to leave Lestat and find others of 'their kind'. The scenes of their leaving their maker are far better than the film, and when they do find other vampires, they are not as they expected, but reall monsters.

It's not until they arrive in Paris, that they encounter vampires like themselves. Then it really gets interesting, with the fight between Claudia and Louis are very memorable.

I think if I tell you anymore, you won't read the book as I will have told you everything. Just read it, enjoy it, and get caught up in the first of the Vampire Chronicles.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTragic vampire life story.
By the great amphibian on 5 Sept. 2002
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Several of my recent fiction purchases have been vampire related, such as Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend", and of course, Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. Although the vampire concept works well in SF, as Matherson definitively demonstrated, it is refreshing to read vampires in a traditional setting. Anne Rice epitomises the classic style of vampires in her writing, with familiar idiosyncrasies, physical characteristics, and surroundings.
Rice maintains credibility throughout the novel in terms of the direction of the narrative, and seldom if ever are concepts introduced that seem 'unlikely' in the credible setting built up. Without speculating too specifically, I understand that Rice underwent some family tragedies not long before this novel was written, (in 5 weeks!), and her extreme sentimental openness in the novel is surely justified, and the novel actually benefits from this emotional release. It would be a comfort to be able to express your feelings as cogently as Rice if one was overcoming a tragedy.
There is only one possible loophole in the story, (although my identification of this is very questionable as it is subjective, and I could probably be proven wrong and convinced of the proof). This is when Louis seems to have only just met Armand, and although Louis has been searching for another civilised vampire, (civilised apart from the fact that he kills countless innocent mortals), for years, I felt that he would need to know Armand for longer to warrant exchanging words of love. It seemed as Louis virtually walked up to Armand and said, 'ah, hello.. I love you!'. As I said, that is a purely subjective observation; (please note that the previous dialogue is not a quote).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsa must have if you like vampire's stories
By anick on 6 May 2017
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another book from the serie of Anne Rice ...if you are into Vampire story my son assures me it is the best serie I have been getting them all 2 at a time and he still like them...the book itself is second hand but was clean and no writing in it...perfect!
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5.0 out of 5 starsDark, yet surprisingly colourful
By Lucy Le'Mareschal VINE VOICE on 7 Dec. 2002
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Read this book and you will never want to put it down again.
It introduces a world of vampires - dark creatures of the night. Yet, the clever characterisation is such that at times one can't help feeling just a little bit sorry for even the vilest vamps!
The mood of New Orleans is captured in this wonderful novel.
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1.0 out of 5 starsbook arrived without dust jacket
By Josephine Blake on 22 Jan. 2016
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Book arrived without cover or dust jacket was very disappointed. Not as shown in the picture.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat it is like to be a vampire
By Lynda Stevens on 3 April 2016
Format: Paperback
Interview with the Vampire is about a young reporter who ends up with a scoop he could never imagined in his wildest dreams.

A young man with a tale to tell reveals to him, terrifyingly, that he is no longer human but a vampire. His skin is glisteningly white, his fingernails like glass and he can move with preternatural speed - and of course, there are the fangs. He is over two hundred years old and is therefore unfamiliar with modern slang. And so the stage is set for an eerie, macabre tale.

He is made into a vampire by a callous and unscrupulous but charismatic character called Lestat, who appears to revel in killing and expects his sensitive fledgling to do the same. Louis, unfortunately, is unable to accept that his vampire nature now fates him to being a predator who like a cat, must kill in order to survive - or live a half-life. Or unlife.

Louis and Lestat both crave a family life, however and create a new vampire out of a six-year-old child, Claudia. What that means for this special new fledgling sets some unique challenges for her as she settles into her immortality, creating dangerous fault-lines of tensions within this 'family.' Louis and Claudia later set off to find out if there are other creatures like them.

In Paris they encounter an underground vampire society centred around a theatre group. The members of this troupe pretend to be humans acting as vampires, whilst taking victims in full view of unsuspecting audiences. They are led by another child vampire - made when he was 16. Perhaps because of this, he shows very little approval for Claudia.

The most interesting part of the novel though for me is that once again, Louis does not find the sense of community and understanding he craves among his own kind.Read more ›
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