I read this book first when I was like 14 to impress my brother’s friend Scott. He was into Nine Inch Nails and Pantera and he played a bunch of Sega/SNES RPGs and so anyway, yeah, you read some Vampire novels if you want to be in Scott’s good graces. So it read it then. And when I started my Goodreads twenty years later I gave this a 3/5 based on my memory of it. But I was wrong. It’s just good. It really is, […]
No mer-men? Denied!
I’m a long-time fan of both Anne Rice and her greatest creation, the vampire Lestat, but even so I can find them both a little much at times. When I first saw the title of this, the latest of The Vampire Chronicles, I thought this might be one of those times, with visions of a waterlogged Lestat hanging out underwater with a bunch of mer-men. I was to be disappointed in this, and I’m still not sure if that might have made a better, if […]
I’m pretty sure this interview lasted longer than sundown to sunrise…
According to wikipedia, Anne Rice is an author of “gothic fiction, christian literature, and erotica.” One of these things is not like the other… I know Interview with the Vampire has been around for awhile, after all, I was in high school when Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt played Rice’s vampires, much to her dismay. That was more than *gulp* 20 years ago. But crap, the book is 40 years old people! So if you live under a rock, like me, or you just have […]