The Vampire Lestat

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  "I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised, all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."

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  ~ Damned and Divine said on Dec 16, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Second in the series - The Vampire Chronicles

  If I picked this up today and read it again, perhaps it wouldn't get quite the same high marks, but at the time, I was eating up anything I could find on vampires. I loved this.

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  Bashful said on Aug 25, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  After a slow start...simply magical.

  It took me a long time to get into this book... I was intrigued to find out about Lestat growing up and becoming a vampire, but his depressing friend Nicki was extremely tiresome! It bored me and I stopped caring up until Armand started to tell his story of Marius, and then Marius his enthralling st ... (continue)

  It took me a long time to get into this book... I was intrigued to find out about Lestat growing up and becoming a vampire, but his depressing friend Nicki was extremely tiresome! It bored me and I stopped caring up until Armand started to tell his story of Marius, and then Marius his enthralling story of the ancients and his own making. The old stories were simply magical, and they began to really compel me to continue reading.

  So from about halfway through I got interested again and really cared about Lestat. Even though this novel was a series of stories-within-a-story, I think it really helped to flesh out Anne Rice's world of vampires. We find out where they came from and how they began, how they have changed over the centuries, and we meet some truly charismatic vampires with involving secrets.

  I was very interested that there was a cliffhanger setting up Queen of the Damned. The fleshing-out of the vampire world was necessary, I feel, to introduce the power and thrall of Akasha - which I can only guess at from seeing the movie of 'The Queen of the Damned'.

  I'm kind of wishing I was Marius' friend now. He's super-cool and interesting.

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  Jemma said on Feb 24, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I highly enjoyed this book as it shows Lestat's side of events before, during and after he met Louis. Rice portrays Lestat no longer as a sort of villian but as witty and a complex character with his own personal tragedies and struggles.

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  xYoshiiiiox said on Jun 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  an important writer for the vampire genre, but, I don't know exactly why, I spent a lot of time on this book...

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  Lily90 Chris said on May 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  read it in one sitting in a little over 24 hours. Very engrossing.

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  Linda said on Feb 25, 2011 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 560 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0345313860
• ISBN-13: 9780345313867
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Pub date: Sep 12, 1986
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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