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The Vampire Lestat
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July 1, 2019
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July 31, 2019
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Kat
Aug 13, 2019 rated it did not like it
Shelves: queer, dnf, book-club, fantasy
If I could give this less than one star, I would. I read the first 150 pages, and that was enough to know that I was never, ever going to enjoy this book. Lestat is so unbelievably irritating, he overreacts to the tiniest things, he's so self absorbed he's soaked in his own juices. The prose is circular (something is said. Then rephrased. Then said again. Just in case you missed it!). The characters all have terrible opinions. There wasn't a single person I cared about, at all.

Bad. Bad. Bad. Sav
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Roisin
Jul 31, 2019 rated it did not like it
Shelves: dnf, book-club-books
DNF

Maybe if I was a teenager or I was reading this in the 80s, I'd have loved it. Too many little issues with it, ultimately bored by Lestat and the writing style.
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Emma
Jul 31, 2019 rated it liked it
Matt Amery
Aug 19, 2019 rated it really liked it
Robs
Feb 28, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition