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Title: Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0-345-38540-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $31.96 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Vampire emotions have never been so entertaining
Comment: If you've seen the movies "Interview With the Vampire" or "Queen of the Damned," you've only had a taste of what Anne Rice's vampires are about. Whether it's the Brat Prince Lestat, human-like Louis, or wise Ancient Marius, you will come to love each one for their faults and strengths when you have finished these four books, as told by Louis in the first book, and Lestat in the next three. You will crave to read the other novels that come after-"Memnoch the Devil," "The Vampire Armand," "Merrick," "Blood and Gold," "Pandora," and "Vittorio the Vampire"-because you want to know the story behind all these characters that Anne Rice has painted only vague pictures of until given the chance to tell their story in their own words. Indulge and believe, for Lestat and Louis have strange tales to tell.
Rating: 5
Summary: A different perspective
Comment: You are, of course, familiar with vampires. You've heard the stories, seen a few movies, and been glared at by plastic masks on halloween. If I asked, you would tell me all about coffins, crosses and stakes, garlic, blood and bats.
But have you ever seen the world through a vampires eyes?
Anne Rice has written a series of books that lets you do just that. This boxed set contains the first four books of the Vampire Cronicles, a different style of vampire fiction. In the first book "Interview with the Vampire", the reluctant killer Louis tells us in rich narrative all about what being a vampire is. He tells how the common myth is sometimes ridiculous, but at other times painfully acurate. His voice is unique, and the brooding darkness of this vampire-tale is truly haunting.
Louis is full of guilt and remorse over the lives he has to take, and all the pain and suffering he brings about. He believes himself to be damned, a creature of the devil, with no right to even exist. He tells how the fascinating Lestat made him a vampire, of their clashes and uneasy coexistance. Lestat is unpredictable, sometimes unbelievably cruel, while Louis is so human it hurts. And when the child Vampire Claudia enters, things become darker and more dramatic than ever before.
The rich descriptions of colonial New Orleans, of Paris and the eternal night are a true delight to read, and well worth the time.
The next books in the series belong not to Louis but to Lestat himself, out to defend his name and tell his side of the story. From now on Lestat is the star of the show, and he would not have it any other way. Lestat is character who demand attention, sometimes even speaking directly to his audience. He is completely different from Louis, and so the books are different. But always there is the darkness, and the eternal night.
If you have ever wondered what it is like to be a vampire, than these are the books for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vampiristic? No, Rather...
Comment: These stories making up The Vampire Chronicles are not about vampires, really, as one might first perceive. The main characters, and really all of them, are vampires, yes, but there is a much, much deeper essence to the stories. These books are not about vampires, but about understanding of life, love, loss, and survival of mind. If you want to look at it like this, you could say that these stories are about regular human life, human strugle and human passion. The only differences are that the stories are dragged out over hundreds of years, and they contain the understandings of generations and generations, and feelings and understandings are magnified by thousands to attain the grove of vampire characteristics.
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Title: Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345409671 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 6) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345434803 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blood and Gold (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles.) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345409329 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422406 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires (New Tales of the Vampires) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422384 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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