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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going to just put this out there: Lestat is among the most fascinating minds I've ever been inside in literature. He just is. I understand that this is an erotic horror novel but that doesn't diminish the truth of that statement. This book holds up to the test of time. I re-read it last year, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1416067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lestat... ¿qué se puede decir de un personaje tan seguro de si mismo, capaz de crueldades impensables, y a la vez, dueño de una personalidad terca, posesiva, egoista?<br/>La historia de Lestat debería ser triste: un hombre joven, obligado a ser vampiro por un creador macabro y suicida. Pero no,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39675792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A happy surprise indeed.  Perhaps it was a result of low expectations or a prior experience with the movie &quot;Interview with the Vampire&quot; that had me so unprepared to enjoy this novel.<br/><br/><em>The Vampire Lestat</em> is a great read.  It may not have all the literary quality of, say, Cormac Mc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20985129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started off a bit slow with this one, because of 'vampire literature saturation' and in small part due to that Amazon 'review' Anne Rice did on her books/characters (what an ego!). Still, despite that astonishing view into Anne Rice's mind (assuming that was actually the author) I ended up really,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48232226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that defined me.  I do mean that I turned goth or vampire or whatever.  No... it started me thinking.<br/><br/>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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41564247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So much better than &quot;Interview&quot; it's kind of amazing it's the same series.  Lestat is just a way better character than Louis, who's too whiny to be cool.  Lestat, on the other hand, never looks back really--even though he does, and that's what makes him awesome, but I'll get to that.  This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80952669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book in the vampire chronicles series tells the tale of the vampire Lestat.<br/>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.<br/><br/>The character of Lestat is very different to the Lestat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54581587">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the first writer to make vampires sexy, Anne Rice brought Lestat to us first is &quot;Interview with a Vampire.&quot;  A secondary character in the first book, Lestat is a great read for folks wanting to hear about living for some centuries and watching the world change. <br/><br/>The tee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41317956">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The difference in the author's writing style beween this novel and &quot;Interview with a Vampire&quot; is noticeable. In my opinion, it almost like these books were written by two different authors. I struggled to read the first book (and found the movie to be slow paced and demanding as well). Wel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79324736">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Vampire Lestat is the bomb!  This is one of my all time favorite books, as in if I could only read say 5 books again ever in life, this would be one of the books.  They made this one into a film, it was pretty good for a film based on a book, but it was not as good as the book.  Lestat is about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46617869">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oooo, it's even better than Interview, not as...&quot;literary.&quot;  Although that's not quite what I mean because it still grapples with some wonderfully complex themes and characters, and I was as enthralled by the questions it raised as I was by the plot-line.  There's just more action and more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61183781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[After the spectacular debut of <em>Interview with the Vampire</em> in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in <em>Cry to Heaven</em> and the Free People of Color in <em>The Feast of All Saints</em>. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in <em>Interview</em>, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, <em>The Vampire Lestat</em>.<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 &quot;The Vampire Lestat&quot;) 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, <em>The Vampire Lestat</em> 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. <em>--Patrick O'Kelley</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly Anne Rice is a genius!<br/>In the Book “The Vampire Lestat” tackles the origins of Lestat from Human to Vampire<br/>The depth of the Story was pretty intense which made the whole story enticing.<br/><br/>The Vampire Lestat is the second edition of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74782283">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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