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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31336.The_Tale_of_the_Body_Thief?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Tale of the Body Thief" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168274789m/31336.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31336.The_Tale_of_the_Body_Thief?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Tale of the Body Thief</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577.Anne_Rice">Anne Rice</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18058273?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars I enjoyed 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 are inside the mind of the vampire Lestat and can revel in his fiesty, pompous spirit and feel closer to him than ever before. I remember when reading The Queen of the Damned I was getting sick of the flashbacks and origin stories... I wanted to see Lestat in present day! I wanted to see him covorting around, just being him! And here we get that, we see him in every day existence, absorb the glory of it all, and experience his transitions as he gives up his vampire body to be a mortal once again and his supriring revelations he comes to discover. I didn't want this book to end. When I closed this book, I felt saddened at the silencing of Lestat's running narrative, his eccentricities and sensitivites. But there's at least one more to read, so I still have that to look forward to. But one thing's for certain... out of all the vampire chronicles, this is one I will be returning to and rereading in the future. 
 
 This book made me realize how incredibly awful it really is to be human. Rice personified it to the extent you feel she really does know what it's like to look from the outside at our species, and it's uncanny how she transforms Lestat's outlook in the process. Yes, this book made me want to live in Lestat's shoes for a day. If I could switch with his body, I think I'd like to stay in there, too. 
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I enjoyed 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 are inside the mind of the vampire Lestat and can revel in his fiesty, pompous spirit and feel closer to him than ever before. I remember when reading The Queen of the Damned I was getting sick of the flashbacks and origin stories... I wanted to see Lestat in present day! I wanted to see him covorting around, just being him! And here we get that, we see him in every day existence, absorb the glory of it all, and experience his transitions as he gives up his vampire body to be a mortal once again and his supriring revelations he comes to discover. I didn't want this book to end. When I closed this book, I felt saddened at the silencing of Lestat's running narrative, his eccentr...more

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