Entrevista con el vampiro / Interview with the Vampire

from gaialover

She usesthe bite of the vampire and sharing "bringing death" to symbolize sexual love and intimate relationships. This allows her to approach the edge of relationships accepted by society and brings the true creep factor to the book. I was far more creeped out by the relationships between the vam...

from Aerrin99

I didn't quite know what to expect with this book. I've seen the movie, I've heard the hype, and I'm not sure I would have ever picked it up had it not been given to me by someone who's taste I trust very much. In some ways, this book surprised me. It was slower than I expected, although not in a...

from LisaMaria_C

I was drawn in from the first page. The conceit is that Louis, made a vampire by the sinister Lestat in 1791 New Orleans, is telling his life--or rather after-life story to an interviewer known only as "the boy." One of the reasons I found this a riveting read is that Rice writes in a clean, tran...

from Murphy-Jacobs

It was 1978 and I was visiting my aunt and cousins in the mountains of North Carolina. My older cousin, Karen, was away being a teenager (Bible camp, I think) and I slept in her room while she was gone. I had a new color-in blacklight poster, the black flocking untouched, and a precious Peter Fra...

from Citizenjoyce

Probably good for the time it was written, full of different views on vampires, ennui and debauchery. Read in the 21st century it's rather boring and pointless, though Rice seems to think she's saying a good deal about good and evil.