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I love Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Lestat is probably the greatest vampire created since Bram Stoker created Dracula. I love his charm and audacity, he really is The Brat Prince. I really enjoy Rice's style of writing as well, its so passionate and erotic, she just sucks you in (pardon the pun) and you can't let go.

My favourite book of all the Chronicles is Queen Of The Damned. I loved the tales of the origin of the "race" of vampires it contains my two favourite female names of all time Maharet and Mekare.
Memnoch The Devil, Merrick and Blood And Gold are also worthy notables.
Does anyone else enjoy the Vampire Chronicles??? The beauty of life is you don`t have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
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The Vampire Chronicles are the greatest. I've read every single one of them. Lestat has to be my favorite literary character of all time so far. I loved the movie version of Interview. Queen of the Damned was an okay movie, but as an adaptation, it sucked big time. I can't wait for Blood Canticle to come out. <i></i>

Ok, this is off topic for the thread, but...

Anne Rice has written another series regarding witches. AFAIK, the books fall under the series "Lives of the Mayfair witches". Anyone, care to comment about them, please consider I have not read any Anne Rice at all. taraswizard
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I have read most of the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches books. Yes, they are tied together now, I believe through Blackwood Farm (will have to check to make certain).

The Mayfair Witches books are good, but you have to strap yourself in to get the full effect of all that genealogy, and in my opinion it gets a lot less interesting after the first two books or so (The Witching Hour was the first - having difficulty coming up with the 2nd title... Taltos?).

Vampire Chronicles are good, but in discussing them have found that many people are turned off by Rice's floral/sensual writing style.

The Mummy I remember reading, but I guess it didn't leave a strong impression, since I am having difficulty coming up with the plot.

dw

It's not her florid style, it's that the Vampire books have the same problem as the Mayfair Witches...they get less and less interesting as you go.

I've got the first 7 of the Vampire books.

Interview was great, Lestat, I enjoy it less now than I used to, but it was still also great at first. QotD wasn't bad, if a little...unbelievable. Not the Vampire history, but the whole rock-star thing was a bit annoying. Introduction of the secret society thing was good though. Talamasca or whatever they're called.

Body thief was definitely losing it, and Menoch was questionable at best. Then, we start getting into the other vampires, because Rice realised that, like in Highlander, what people want are the flashbacks. Problem is, the books started to get very formulaic once she was doing that.

But I still like the idea, and I read them every so often.

--A

I heard that she has been writing novels about the life of Jesus?

That one about the castrati in Venice was pretty good, from what I remember of it.

--A