Anne Rice Books
 

I'm reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Ive finished Interview with the Vampire (I was impressed) and am starting book2. Anyone else read them? Opinions?

Stop soon. By the time you finish with "Queen of The Damned" you will realize just how bad the rest of it will get. The first two were pretty good, but it goes DOWNHILL rapidly.

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Jimmy The Hutt

You'll love The Vampire Lestat. *I've never seen any of the movies based on her books*

Its very well crafted, and is a great read.
But I say stop there. Only if you are really into these books will you enjoy anything after Lestat. I've pretty much buried Lestat in my mind now, and have been trying to concentrate on her "New" tales of the vampires (armand, Marius, pandora, merrick, vittorio...)

Word of warning: Stay as far away as you can from her witch books (taltos, lasher, other book i can't remember the name to). They are excessivly long, and I found them incredibly boring. The best part in Lasher is when she describes the sex/death scene.

I agree. I thought "Queen Of The Damned" was fantastic, and have read all the way up to "The Vampire Armand", but I never finished it. I don't know if another one has come out since then, but I really don't care at this point. The first few books I just devoured. I bought the first two together at a used book store and read them over a weekend and was hooked.

I have read Interview with a Vampires first 40 pages about 5 times trying to like it. Just couldn't get into her style of writing. It cured my insomnia.

Her first two are genius; they grab you and put you straight into the brain of a vampire. Then it really. slows. down. and every subsequent book is a half-assed remix of the previous ones.

I loved Interview with a Vampire the movie, but I haven't read the books. MeanSplean, you really need to watch Interview with a Vampire. If I remember correctly Anne Rice even loved the movie.

I used to like her, but like everyone else, found her style grows tiring. The Mummy book was pretty good, but I don't think she ever completed Part 2, so don't bother with that one either.

Interview and Lestat were great. Queen of the Damned and Tale of the Body Thief were pretty good. Memnoc the Devil was very interesting even though it had little do do with the vampires. I haven't read anything beyond that.

The Vampire Lestat is by far the best in the entire series, Interview a close second. I really liked Queen of the Damned too, but I read the first ten pages of Tale of the Body Thief and promptly burned my copy of it, they still won't let me check out books from the library anymore.

she wrote the screenplay also.

As far as I'm concerned, anything after the Queen of the Damned is horrible. Memnoch the Devil and Tail of a Body Theif were long and anticlimactic, and I didn't really care enough about the character Armand to read an entire book of his stories.

I find all of the chronicles to be fantastic, my favourite is Blood and Gold (The book about Marius). It is perhaps my favourite novel of all time, sexy, beautiful, clever and astounding.

I have yet to read the Blackwood Farm.

I absolutely loved "The Vampire Lestat". I didn't care for the rest of her books. The movies for Interview and Queen were great as movies, but horrible as reflections of the books.

At least get to Queen of the Damned.

Personally, I liked Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil
also Blood and Gold was pretty good,
after that I lost interest in continuing.

You HAVE to read The Witching Hour.

It is by far the best.

I would like to start reading them, but do not know what order is correct. Can someone help me out???

Well they are all about different things yet all tie in together. It depends which series you want to start with.

Witches or Vampires my friend.

I like the Vampire Chronicles better, but that's just me.

hmm...

it's been a few years since i've read her, and so i've not read any of her new stuf...

but Lestat is one of my all-time favourite books.
(it was a near constant companion of mine during my angsty-gothic-vampire-obsessed teen years ;) )

Lestat>Damned>Interview.

and i agree with *Nikki*, the Witching Hour is good shit, too.

:)