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*Anne Rice*: The Vampire Chronicles

				Includes the titles: Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil

	I have to admit that when I strted reading the series, I didn't like the books very much. Mind you, part of the reason for that is that I didn't read them in order, which is something that I highly recomend you do. Especially when reading the first three. Anyway, I didn't like the stories very much and I didn't understand why the people that I knew that had read the stories were almost what you could call obsessed with them. I now really love these books too, and I can understand why others liked them so much too. But I must warn you, if the book is narrated by lestat, it can be pretty slow at times...he tends to babble, allot! Anne Rice into really vivid detail, and (despite how strange they may be) her characters are very strong. The first book is told first person point of view from Louis Point du Lac (I can't believe I remembered his whole name!). In this book, he's made into a vampire by Lestat who is the antagonist of the story (although Anne Rice claims that he's the hero. I just don't see it). This book is honestly one of the most depressing stories I've read (That goes to show you how many sad books I read). Louis is one of these guys that's always depressed, and he's happy that way. This kinda affects the whole mood of the story. At any rate, the next four stories are told by Lestat. We find out that he's not as bad as Louis made him out to be. He's actually a funny character. Not in the ides that he has a sence of humour, it's just his whole personality. He's like a toddler. If you put a cookie in front of him and said, 'don't eat that cookie', he'd eat it as soon as your back was turned, then babble for three or four pages about how evil he is because he took the cookie. That's what's so funny about him. He's two hundred years old, and he still behaves like a two year old. Of all the books, I think my favorite one was The Vampire Lestat and The Tale of the body Theif. But I didn't enjoy Memnoch the devil very much. The book was interesting from a theological point of view, but the ending sucked. They killed Armand!!!! (sorry for giving it away). I realize that he's not really dead, because he's got his own book in the New Vampire Chronicles, that I'm only half finished, but still. He just dies, and Lestat doesn't know that he's not dead, and he doesn't even begin to address it. He just says that he runs into the sun and gets burnt to a crisp. That's it. No more. That was the first book that I read and I was still upset by that death. But I don't like Armand anymore anyway, so it doesn't matter. He doesn't like Louis, so I don't like him. How pathetic is that? I don't like an imaginary character because he doesn't like an imaginary character that I do like. Oh well, I think that Armand is just mad and Louis because Louis refused to go journeying with him. I sure have a lot to say about these books, and I didn't give away too much of the plot line. I'm proud of myself! Well, the whole point of this was to convince you that these stories are good. I hope I've done that! (And for anyone that's wondering about the order that the books go in, the list at the top is in order) Okay, wait a sec. I want to go more into this Lestat stealing a cookie analogy. This is how it would go: Lestat sees a cookie sitting on Marius' table, and completly ignores it, then Marius says "Lestat, there is something very mysterious and bad about that cookie, you can't eat it!". Then Lestat say okay, and Marius leaves the room. Lestat looks at the cookie, and has this overwhelming urge to eat it. He tells himself, "no, Marius told me not to. I won't eat that uttery scrumptios looking....drool.....cookie....." Then he eats the cookie and spends like five paragraphs describing the utter ecstacy that he felt while eating it. As soon as he's swallowed the last bite, he realizes what he's done, and thinks to himself "Oh dear God! I can't believe that I ate that cookie sob and even after Marius told me not to. Now something evil will happen, and it will be all my fault! What will Marius think of me now. I'm such a horrble bastard. I don't deserve to live sob. I hate me, I hate me, I hate me! Wail and Whine That was so utterly evil of me. Yes, very evil. I'm-I'm evil. But I enjoy being evil! Why, I am the Brat Prince after all. Why ever was I just bemoaning the fact that I ate the cookie/? I'm proud that I ate it! I'm just sooo evil. God, I love me! I'm so great and wonderful and powerful ,and evil. Why, someday I shall rule the world! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." then he runs out of the room shouting "Marius, Marius, guess what I've done!? I've eaten the cookie you told me not to!! Aren't I just too evil?" Hee hee. So maybe I exagerated a little bit. But I stress the word little. This is soooo what books written by Lestat are like. That's what I see in them anyway. Don't you other Anne Rice fans agreee??

		*Anne Rice*: The Vampire Armand Okay, I just finished reading Armand from The Vampire Chronicles. I'd have to say that this book is very much in the spirit of the Lestat and Louis books. The ending is happy, but in a sad kind of way. The ending in itself wasn't sad, it was just kind of a 'oh, Armand is finally going to be happy. He so deserves it sniffle'. Maybe it's just me, I do tend to get teary eyed over nothing in books. I'd also like to retract the staement I made previously about Armand disliking Louis. He dosen't. But he does contradict himself allot. One second, he's talking about how weak ands pathetic Louis is, and the next second, he's talking about how much he loves him. I still believe what I said earlier. Armand loves Louis, and is just hurt because Louis left him, and that they grew apart. But the poor dear had such a tragic life, it's hard to feel any sort of resentment towards him. So even if Armand didn't like Louis, I wouldn't be upset. (not too upset anyway) :)

		Anne Rice: Pandora This is the shortest book in both the New Vampire Chronicles and the regular Vampire Chronicles, by far. I was actually kind of disappointed, because Anne Rice books usually take me a few days to read, but this one was only a one day thing. But it was a really good book. And it's not really Pandora's whole live story. It's her turning into a vampire and the first one or two hundred years of her life. But it's a very good book. I quite enjoyed it. So much so that I skipped drinking alcohol to read it. Wow. :) That's pretty big for me :).

		*Anne Rice*: Merrick I got this boook for Christmas from Clari hugs. This book is so so so good!!! It's the story of Merrick and her transformation into vampire hood. It's told from the point of view of David Talbot...and speaking of him, can someone tell me what's with Anne Rice and making her men vampires pedifiles...they all love little boys. I realize it's not all of them, but two of her main vampires do, and that's two more than you'll usually see. Anyway, back to the book. Merrick is a decendant of the Mayfair witches...who come from another of Anne Rice's series, and Merrick basically tricks David and Louis inot making her into a vampire. And we finally get to see Claudia's ghost, and see what she's really like...she seems to me like a little bitch. She used Louis, and treated him like a slave!! cries. Poor, poor Louis!! That brings me to another topic, one of the reasons why I like this book so much is that Louis is one of the main characters. Hurray!!! And it's not from stupid Lestat's point of view. It's from David, so we get to see him in a more positive light, cause David loves Louis. Not saying that Lestat doessn't, but Louis and Lestat seem to have an old married couple relationship...really badly. They tend to bicker all the time, and have mostly negative things to say about one another, but when it really comes down to it, they will do anything for eachother... Anyway, I"m out of room :( So I guess that's all I have to say about the book for now :)

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