The Vampire Chronicles

Started by Mr Zero20 pages

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.

it's MEANT to be flowery and very descriptive - have you ever done literature?? 🙄 that's the way you can actually feel the world of the vampires - it's hard to explain right now without me writing a whole essay on it 😮

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.


i ad mit her vocab and stuff can be inproved,but can you blame her? those people actually lived and spoke that way so writing in a "victorian era style prose" wld have been MUCH easier...give her a break yeah? 🙂

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!!!💃😍

Anoushka: the image of louis in your siggy, do you happen to have a larger image of that particular one? that is my fave scene/image of brad as louis in the movie! 😱 looks so angelic and hot 😍

😱 the one of him thinking oh-so-deeply? *drools* i've got it lurking about somewhere,i'll get it for you ASAP alright? 😍

😱 chapter 18 now!!💃 this book ROCKS!!!

why yes indeed! 😊 😍 that one. he he thanks for the image!

chapter eighteen of what exactly? 😑

BLOOD CANTICLES!! 😛😛

it's the latest book of the vampire chronicles and the 1st one after memnoch to be narrated by Lestat 😍

awww good for you!! i wish i could read it too!! *sob*

hmmm i just love your avatar and siggy 😄😄😄

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

darn, why must the author obsess over lestat so much and not louis? i know it's understandable that's there is so much character possilbility for him...but still! whoa...he falls for a mortal? wow...

cuz Lestat is the darling Brat Prince, capable of all evil yet yearns to be Saint Lestat? (yup,he clearly shows how much he aches to be a saint in b.c 😊 )
yes,he falls hopelessly for Rowan Mayfair - 😠😠 who seems not to give much of a damn for him 😠

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!

yup,he really wants to be redeemed...it's almost like how you want to grow slimmer but you just can't give up eating all the chocolate and ice cream i guess 😮

😆 why don't you just cut and paste my reply to you on here?for the benefit of others who migh wanna know 😊

they are sinful but so tasty...like louis and lestat 😱 😆 😍

sure will once i see it! 👆 😊

you just can't stay away from them! 😱

oh MAN i LOVE blood canticles!!! fans of Lestat,you guys HAVE to get your hands on this books, REALLY it's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Louis doesn't appear innit tho 🙁

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 😊