I first read The Vampire Chronicles in the 1980s when I was a teenager. I loved them even then, but I'm getting a lot more out of them now that I'm older.

Interview isn't my very favorite of the lot, but I have to give it 5-stars for introducing us to a dark, modern incarnation of the vampire and for setting up an incredibly complex world using just the seed of original vampire lore. While this one reads a bit more more commercial than the second book, The Vampire Lestat (putting up that review next), Interview is an atmospheric, well-written introduction to the Rice vampire world - one that changed EVERYTHING.