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40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). The inspiration for the hit television series

The time is now.

We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .

He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures.

He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

Reviewer: LynnS77
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The First Vampire Interview
Review: The story begins with a vampire agrees to be interviewed by someone he repeatedly refers to as a “boy”. Of course, to a 200 year old vampire any human male might be called a boy, but we will assume the interviewer was very young. The young man has an old fashioned tape recorder and repeatedly changes tapes throughout the story, so it’s easy to place the story in the 1970’s. The young man’s name is never given.Louis de Pointe du Lac was was twenty five year old plantation owner when he was turned into a vampire by his maker who needed the riches Louis possessed. Louis finds the experience of being a vampire story worthy and always felt that his maker Lestat was too indifferent to the wonders of their senses and their vampire powers.Louis was fascinated by Lestat as a human, but once he became a vampire himself he was no longer under the vampiric glamour, suddenly he realized that he couldn’t stand being around his maker. Unfortunately there were things he needed to learn and Lestat was the only vampire available to teach him what he needed to know. Such as the fact that Louis hated killing humans and Lestat withheld the knowledge that animal blood was would also sustain them.Eventually there are those on the plantation who become suspicious of the strange men, and there is and uprising and the workers come for Lestat and Louis and they are forced to flee.Escaping to New Orleans Louis finds himself in a state of near starvation and sees a young girl clinging to her mother who had just died from a disease that would soon claim the child. Thinking he is being merciful, Louis drains her, but Lestat turns her and and makes her into a vampire child named Claudia. They spoil her and delight in her presence, but as much as she learns she can never grow a woman’s body, even though she has a woman’s mind.Eventually Claudia becomes angry with Lestat for the state of her forever childhood and tries to him, and Louis and Claudia flee him and go to Paris together. There the search for and eventually find other vampires which will be both for their enlightenment and their downfall.This was the first of several of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, and there are people who didn’t like this book. I liked it very much, but I think some people didn’t like it because there is a discrepancy between the Lestat and Louis in this book and the ones in the following books. Lestat is way more fun in the next book and Louis eventually is a friend of his. Lestat was not an old vampire when he made Louis, in fact he wanted Louis’ plantation to house his father who was still alive. I’m also pretty certain Anne Rice just had the idea of writing this book, but didn’t have all the other books in her head yet. However it happened, this book wasn’t as much fun as THE VAMPIRE LESTAT or my favorite THE TALE OF THE BODY THEIF, but in honor of the Halloween picks I decided to reread this and it’s still pretty good.

Reviewer: Joy Cagil
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Superb! Innocence and Guilt and Immortality against Morality
Review: In this book, Anne Rice tells a flashback story, until the last scene. Throughout the book, there is an interviewer called the boy who tapes the interview and there is Louis the vampire who is telling the boy about his experiences up to the point where he is talking to the boy, which means there exists in the novel a frame story and a core story.The frame story consists of the interviewer and Louis. The core story talks about Louis’s adventures and relationships.The setting, in the beginning, is the late twentieth century San Francisco. Before that, it is Pointe du Lac, a plantation in Lousiana, New Orleans, and Paris, France. The protagonist in the core story is Louis, a vampire of about two centuries, and the antagonist is Lestat who turned Louis into a vampire.The secondary characters are Claudia and Armand, with Claudia’s role being much greater than Armand’s. Claudia attracted Louis first, then she was made into a vampire by Lestat possibly to keep Louis with him.I found the relationships among the characters to be the most interesting in the story rather than the events of the story, in which the action never stops. The tension and suspense in the book are also fascinating as does the writing style, and even if the events seem to be far out, the skill of the author adds a believability factor to unbelievable circumstances.Both Louis and Claudia have mixed feelings about Lestat, and they take some kind of revenge from him, which ends up giving Louis guilt feelings. Lestat, on the other hand, loves them but as a vampire, he is selfish but much more knowledgeable. Then there are the strong love and hate relationships between any two or more vampires, which was interesting, like that of Lestat and Louis, Louis and Armand, and Armand and Santiago and the other vampires. The relationship between Louis and Claudia had more love than any other relationship in the story. These relationships had nothing to do with gender or sex but possibly their type of attraction was due to who these vampires were.As characterization is superior to the horror elements in the novel, I didn’t think Lestat to be a villain at all. He was a vampire who knew what was there to know about the vampire lore, but wasn’t willing to share it fully, only because he wanted to keep those he was attached to close to him. He was selfish that way. Also, that he didn’t go after vengeance after what Claudia and Louis did to him elevated the way I thought of him.Then both Louis and Lestat love all arts and spend time in the opera or at the art museum and all vampires have intensely alert senses to shapes, colors, sounds, and smells. In fact, all these details and their peculiar richness make this book very readable.I don’t normally read horror, but I must have read this book much earlier possibly during the late seventies, as I recalled much of it while reading it the second time this October, and I am not sorry for it. Truth is, I enjoyed it greatly.

Reviewer: SC.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 30th anniversary edition signed by the author (which was a nice little surprise / gwp. Thanks,

Reviewer: Chegou rápido, muita qualidade, livro leve e prático para levar na bolsa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ótimo, prático e leve, veio um pouquinho machucado mas nem é relevante pra mim

Reviewer: benjamin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Anne rice is just fantastic.

Reviewer: Diego Morales
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beautiful edition, except for the "NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES" which almost ruins the design, it's like an annoying bug on the cover. A TV series that doesn't do any justice to the book.

Reviewer: Elisa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Libri avvincente fin dalle prime pagine. Si legge che è una meraviglia anche perché adoro i libri in inglese. Comprerò tutti fli altri sicuramente.