Lets say what needs to be said; The Anne Rice vampire books are entertaining stories, but are some of the worst written books in the English language.
Not just poorly written , but terrible. Over descriptive painfully florid clumsy clunking sub-literate trash.
Great stories mind - fantastic ideas, but her writing is like an immature schoolkids - and gets worse with each passing novel she shits out.
No.
Rice tries to evoke some sort of cod-romantic lyricism by writing in a florid victorian era style prose. If you want to see that kind of thing done well read the Bronte sisters or Dickens or Thomas Hardy - or the poets Alfred Lord Tennyson or the Barrett Brownings.
Anne Rice has some great ideas for stories, but she hasn't the wit or style to make that prose sound anything other than laboured and false.
Originally posted by Elanor
no......okay in see im the only one with that different opinion but i dont mind it 😄
okay i agree that interview movie was MUCH better than qotd...cuz as we know anne rice wrote its screenplay so OF COURSE its better 😎and qotd movie actually ISNT a qotd movie....its like a fanfiction which is about lestat's and jesse's character. and i agree with bLooMiLiCioUs. it shows the vampire just like some beasts >.<i dont like it either 😕
clearly whomever made the movie and wrote the script to queen of the damned did not get the point of the story and lore of anne rice's version of vampires. they forgot their sense of intellect and humanity, so it seems.
Originally posted by Mr Zero
No.Rice tries to evoke some sort of cod-romantic lyricism by writing in a florid victorian era style prose. If you want to see that kind of thing done well read the Bronte sisters or Dickens or Thomas Hardy - or the poets Alfred Lord Tennyson or the Barrett Brownings.
Anne Rice has some great ideas for stories, but she hasn't the wit or style to make that prose sound anything other than laboured and false.
OH MAN im SORRY for the double posting but GUESS WHAT GUYS????
I HAVE JUST GOT BLOOD CANTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💃💃
oh man Lestat is the same brat prince,as egoistic as ever,the same good/evil hot vampire....i cld go on 😍
the prose here is VERY different,Lestat has abandoned that 'quaint' type of writing and is much much more personal towards the reder and MUCH more modern, if you guys wanna knw exactly what i'm talkin abt you can PM me and i'll maybe send you a couple of paragraphs of the 1st chapter so you get what i mean (don't wanna type it here - plagarism and all that)
i'm only in chapter 4 but i just came on to tell you guys the amazing news - now BACK TO MY DARILNG LESTAT!!!💃😍
Originally posted by Anoushka
BLOOD CANTICLES!! 😛😛it's the latest book of the vampire chronicles and the 1st one after memnoch to be narrated by Lestat 😍
what's that one about, blood canticles? 😑
i thought there were only four to five books in the vampire chronicles, no? 😑 how many books are narrated by Lestat?
Originally posted by Elanor
awww good for you!! i wish i could read it too!! *sob*hmmm i just love your avatar and siggy 😄
😄 i'd tell you the story but that'll spoil everyth wldn't it? 😂 i've finished it btw -it's amazing in my opinion - i LOVE the modern feel to the book - this one's really set in the 20th century man, woohoo!! 💃
well,the books,in order,go like this -
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat 😍 - -narrated by Lestat
Queen of the Damned- -narrated by Lestat
Tale of the Body Thief- -narrated by Lestat
Memnoch the Devil- -narrated by Lestat
The Vampire Armand
Merrick (i'm not so sure that these last two are in order -armand and merrick,that is....😮 forgot)
Blood and Gold
Blackwood Farm
and last but NOT least.......
Blood Canticle 😍😍 i LOVE Lestat in this one, completely (altho i'm DAMN jealous of that mortal he so desperately loves and craves 😠 )- -narrated by Lestat
interesting to find out that he seeks redemption and certain changes he wants to make makes me think of louis in a way...
anyways, although i asked you this in a pm...about the book, "the vampire lestat", what brings on him(lestat) becoming a rockstar and why? it seems so strange and such a contrast to what he was like the previous book!
glory, it's going to take me forever to get to that one! oh man! 🙁
alright, here's your explanation as to how and why lestat becomes a rockstar in "the vampire lestat":
Anoushka wrote on 06-19-2004 03:45 AM:
no it didn't...haha....well he want's to do good by being the symbol of evil,if that makes sense - he LOVES being evil but yearns to do good - plus he's sick of living in the dark and wants the world to know him for what he is 😊