false 31336 36 It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote <I>The Body Thief</I>, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's <I>Frankenstein</I>, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, <I>The Body Thief</I> is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. <p> Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in <I>Queen of the Damned</I>. <p> The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 2925924 book 1992 The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4) total:11572|5:78|4:104|3:122|2:47|1:7| 11572 39885 14389 301 5 2 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Wed Jun 20 18:27:45 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 18:30:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Dec 08 14:05:11 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 14:05:34 -0800 2008 5 1 false true Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 10:13:13 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 00:12:20 -0700 2009 1
We already knew that Lestat is awesome; the petulant, selfish, petty and yet incredibly charming, intelligent and seductive vampire hero of the series, and through this book we must now add another d...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jun 07 16:20:36 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 16:29:12 -0700 2008
It has little vampire action to my taste.
I think that in my conception of the Vampire Chronicles universe is easier to believe in vampires than in soul migration.

I cant imagine Lestat ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 20 06:40:06 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:41:20 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 14:19:05 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 18:41:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jun 26 19:22:57 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:24:04 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 13 07:25:29 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 20:48:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 07:55:36 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:20:36 -0700 2009
Mais aujourd'hui, à l'aube d'un nouveau millénaire, au cœur des jungles de néons de l...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Oct 27 10:47:52 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 10:58:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false true Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 10:35:28 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 22:38:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 19:02:31 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 18:14:22 -0700 2008 Tale of the Body Thief more than any other installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles up to this point in the series. Unlike all of her other vampire novels, Rice doesn't spend half the book in flashbacks relating someone's history, and for that we are rewarded. More than ever before we...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 19:22:08 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 19:26:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false true Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 21:23:32 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 23:14:53 -0800 2008
I ended up disliking Lestat a lot. He is just so selfish & whiny that I don't know why anyone would like him. (I...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 21:37:25 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 23:16:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sat Aug 16 23:43:39 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 02 06:24:47 -0800 2009
In this book from The Vampire Chronicles, Lestat trades body with a man named Raglan James (referred to as James). When the switch occurs Lestat becomes a mortal man and James becomes a vampire. Herein lies the problem I had with the book.
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 09:39:17 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 09:47:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Apr 15 12:26:34 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 12:48:47 -0700 2008
i loved how Mrs...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jun 11 08:05:17 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:05:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 24 00:25:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 00:29:07 -0700 2009 more...]]>