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The Complete Vampire Chronicles (Vampire Chronicles, #1-#4)
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Anne Rice
Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch. Your favorite night stalkers are back, and bundled together in one terrific boxed set, that collects Anne Rice's four bestselling titles from her beloved Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, and The Tale of the Body Thief.
It's a set to stir the blood of
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Published
September 1st 1993
by Ballantine Books
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These are such a guilty pleasure for me. I don't know why vampires are so fascinating--these books, the Twilight Series, True Blood (an excellent HBO series), The Lost Boys, Salem's Lot, etc., but I got hooked on these books when I was in high school. Though I have not re-read them since, I remember being so enraptured by Lestat and the dark and mysterious vampire world he inhabits that I would gobble up the pages during my lunch break at Beaver Country Day school as a camp counselor. I was v...more
Anne Rice is superb! She has created a cast of vampires who have a moral conscience in spite of their blood thirsts. Of course, just like people in real life, some of them pursue their victims in an evil way. That is not the case with the vampire who she introduced us to in her first novel in the series, the vampire named Lestat.
I am a spiritual seeker who is traveling through this land of shadows, marked by the duality that we seem to experience in life. I am the writer of a series ...more
I am a spiritual seeker who is traveling through this land of shadows, marked by the duality that we seem to experience in life. I am the writer of a series ...more
If ever someone asks "what is your favourite book?" I pretty much always say The Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Chronicles. I read the series for the first time quite a few years ago, and immediately fell in love...i really enjoy stories which take you back to a different time and Rice is a genius in being able to do this. I also found myself admiring and looking up to these inspiring characters. I loved how all the characters were all so unique and different and yet so connected to ...more
I read these back in high school. I enjoyed the near-debilitating obsession, as did my friends.
Things that are too rich, too intense, must eventually be given up and never revisited.
That said, Anne Rice has more writing talent in her little toe than most modern writers have in their whole being.
My favorite was The Queen of the Damned, but I loved the humanity of The Tale of the Body Thief. Seeing Lestat as a weak and fallible mortal was good for both of us.
4.5 stars
Things that are too rich, too intense, must eventually be given up and never revisited.
That said, Anne Rice has more writing talent in her little toe than most modern writers have in their whole being.
My favorite was The Queen of the Damned, but I loved the humanity of The Tale of the Body Thief. Seeing Lestat as a weak and fallible mortal was good for both of us.
4.5 stars
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Anne Rice deserves recognition for building the latest configuration of vampire fiction, in that vampires are emo and moody in a manner distinct from the capital-R Romanticism of the Bram Stoker novel, and are also weird sex addicts.
Whether this has been a net positive depends on whether True Blood (the tv series) is worth the Twilight series, the Vampire Diaries, True Blood (the books) and so forth and so on. But True Blood certainly owes a lot to Rice, and that is something.
Whether this has been a net positive depends on whether True Blood (the tv series) is worth the Twilight series, the Vampire Diaries, True Blood (the books) and so forth and so on. But True Blood certainly owes a lot to Rice, and that is something.
Interview with a vampire,
Havent seen the film and after reading Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series I was in the need of another vampire series to sink my teeth into. It didnt get me hooked straight away and I found it very dark, the main charactor Louis really struggles with his urge to kill and spends much of the book digusted at what he has become. His maker Lestat is the more interesting of the two and does nothing to help to knew vampire come to terms with his immortality. The t...more
Havent seen the film and after reading Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series I was in the need of another vampire series to sink my teeth into. It didnt get me hooked straight away and I found it very dark, the main charactor Louis really struggles with his urge to kill and spends much of the book digusted at what he has become. His maker Lestat is the more interesting of the two and does nothing to help to knew vampire come to terms with his immortality. The t...more
A sophisticated take on vampire mythology, Rice's series is an enjoyable flight of fancy for all those who think that drinking blood would be a fair trade-off for immortality and superhuman reflexes. My interest peaked around the fourth volume (I liked the body thief storyline) but faded after that.
In hindsight, this could have made a great t.v. series -- rather one decent film and half-assed follow-up.
In hindsight, this could have made a great t.v. series -- rather one decent film and half-assed follow-up.
read these through the 90's & early 2000's... loved every one, including the ones that followed these initial stories! my all-time favorite is Memnoch the Devil! just adore all the historical drama, heaven to hell and back! awesome. these are the only vampire stories we need... enough with all the other nonsense, already.
Complex characters, interesting settings and a darn good yarn. This body of work (the whole collection, not just the first four books) certainly reflects Anne Rice and her ever changing beliefs... Just goes to show you, even when you can live for centuries, 'life' still sucks!!! hahahaha!!!
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Ah, Anne Rice's vampires are just what I needed when I read these books. Honestly, there was quite a bit of religious speculation that could be related to. Makes you think about what exactly is right and wrong; good and evil. Depends on the situation, frankly.
It made me look at vampires in a new light, and back before twilight it did feel a bit overtly-erotically charged, but looking back on it, at least the plot kept moving, and while depressing, it was so because of fate and not because of the apathy of the characters.
Take note, teens: This is a real vampire story. The sanitizing of vampires makes me want to puke. Go Team Lestat! Or if you can't, at least try LJ Smith who had the idea first and exectued it better.
I am in love with each and every character. Anne Rice is the original vampire master. Twilight has nothing on this series. Don't get me wrong, I love Twilight too, but it just doesn't compare.
Christine
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i've read only the first 2, but I loved the first one...the second one was okay, but at the same point it wasn't as riveting as interview with a vampire...
(I own them separately); the first 3 were really excellent, then they started going off the strange end a bit...well, strange considering a vampire epic anyways.
The best Vampire series ever written. Elegant, thoughtful, interesting, incredible characters and original storylines...all the qualities that Twilight lacks.
I read these books when i found them for exceedingly cheap prices at our local used book store. i REALLY liked them, if I could obliterate the face of Tom Cruise as Lestat in my mind. (I just don't like him, sorry) (Tom Cruise not Lestat) (Actualy Lestat kinda rocks).
But i quit reading in the middle of Queen of the Damned because I was having the most vivid and amazing dreams in which i was, of course, a vampire.
So i changed my path to other vampire and etc. books by Christopher mo...more
But i quit reading in the middle of Queen of the Damned because I was having the most vivid and amazing dreams in which i was, of course, a vampire.
So i changed my path to other vampire and etc. books by Christopher mo...more
Roxanne
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the best of the whole Vampire series as far as I am concerned, yet I have read them all........
Holly Mann Mathews
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Loved all of these so much so that I'd be on pins & needles waiting for the next publication.
i thought that were 10 books, but, there are the new stories,,
the most perfect vampire stories. love lestat the mostXD
the most perfect vampire stories. love lestat the mostXD
This was so me in 1998. I'm over it now. But Interview With the Vampire is 4/5 stars.
love it.. thanks to this books i got so inlove with everything about vamps
CD
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It gets sillier as you go one. But the ride is fun.
The good old days. Oh, Anne Rice, what happened to you?
I am just very much in love with Anne Rice. Oh yes, very.
these books are what got me into reading.
Crazikt
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So far so good. Almost done with book 2!!
OK, I am a vampire whore...what can I say?
Lestat, my hero... LOVED IT !!!!
Southern vampire novels. Swoon.
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Anne Rice is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her on...more
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