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inspiration, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles have
to be some of the most beautifully decadent
novels written last century I fell in love with the lives of Lestat, Louis, Armand, Claudia, Marius et al when I was thirteen and managed to obtain a copy of Interview with the Vampire after being banned from seeing the filmed version by my parents. [a long boring story is omitted here]. For a while I would deny my fascination with these stories, I always felt a bit strange talking about that kind of thing with my peers, mainly because they were all still desperately in love with Take That. But anyway. I do wish they were real, but I feel that the fictional element is what gives the books their charm, though there is always that element of "what if…" I would love to go to New Orleans at some point, I'm sure I will after university [I'm a bit short on funding at the moment]. But anyway, living in Britain isn't that bad, I've been to Paris 5 times and most other European cities, I especially like Barcelona with it's unique Gaudi architecture. |
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Why The Vampire Chronicles? |
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could be a lot of things, but I relate to the
emotions of the Ricean vampires more than any
other depiction of vampires. They have souls,
they feel emotions such of loneliness, isolation,
guilt, bliss… they suffer as we suffer, but
stay beautiful and as a reflection of their era. My favourite characters by far are Lestat and Louis, but since reading The Vampire Armand, Armand has really grown on me… I think it was also because I didn't like Antonio Banderas' portrayal of him in IWTV. |
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