false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174420004m/396356.jpg 43814 41 After the spectacular debut of <I>Interview with the Vampire</I> in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in <I>Cry to Heaven</I> and the Free People of Color in <I>The Feast of All Saints</I>. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in <I>Interview</I>, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, <I>The Vampire Lestat</I>.<p> As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.<p> While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, <I>The Vampire Lestat</I> has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. <I>--Patrick O'Kelley</I> 3241580 book 1985 The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2) total:21792|5:6732|4:7789|3:5556|2:1405|1:310| 21792 84604 26146 721 4 8 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu May 24 09:42:17 -0700 2007 Thu May 24 09:50:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false true Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Dec 09 06:32:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 06:46:47 -0800 2008 5 La historia de Lestat debería ser triste: un hombre joven, obligado a ser vampiro por un creador macabro y suicida. Pero no,...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 13:09:54 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 12:24:00 -0700 2008
The Vampire Lestat is a great read. It may not have all the literary quality of, say, Cormac Mc...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 12:26:46 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 12:03:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Thu Jan 01 21:31:04 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 21:43:25 -0800 2009
I was born and raised in the South. I didn't read anything else other than fantasy novels (like Dragonlance). I joined the Marines in 89 and while watching a ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 22 06:25:46 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 06:25:51 -0700 2009
I was born and raised in the South. I didn't read anything else other than fantasy novels (like Dragonlance). I joined the Marines in 89 and while watching a movi...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri May 22 13:34:07 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 14:18:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 07:05:43 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 07:15:40 -0700 2009 But I like vampires. And when a friend recommended the second book, in addition to my addiction to the Lestat musical songs, I grum...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 20:08:52 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 12:27:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 05 16:46:20 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 17:04:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Feb 11 12:08:30 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 11:35:02 -0800 2009
People love Tom Cruise (or used to anyway) and Brad Pitt, but the movie stank. The book -which I can say was far better than the movie- was sub-par compared to this sequel!

That s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri May 01 07:46:02 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:44:18 -0700 2009 Starting off from where the first book left off the Vampire Lestat is a much richer story and my personal favorite of the vampire chronicles.

The character of Lestat is very different to the Lestat...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Tue Dec 30 13:20:01 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:52:04 -0800 2008
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The depth of the Story was pretty intense which made the whole story enticing.

The Vampire Lestat is the second edition of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 22:30:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 21:22:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 04 18:36:38 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:38:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 21 17:52:14 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 17:53:45 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=396356