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Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief)
Anne Rice
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For the first time you can find all your favorite night-stalking, blood-guzzling undead--Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch--all in the same place at the same time. Here, collected in one box-set, are the four bestselling, original titles of Anne Rice's sprawling vampire series.
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Beautiful Box Set but Incomplete.......2007-10-01
For any Anne Rice Vampire fans you cannot go past this beautiful Box Set with modern artwork cover designs. My only complaint is why on earth isn't the Fifth and final volume of the central plot Vampire Chronicles (before all those spin-offs) included??? The fifth and final volume "Memnoch the Devil" should definitely be included in the Box Set without which it is simply NOT complete when the finale ends nicely with Lestat's famous last words:
I am the Vampire Lestat. Let me pass now from fiction into legend.
THE END
9:43 February 28, 1994 Adieu, mon amour.
Lestat Rocks My Boring World!.......2007-09-16
Everyone else has basically described all four of these books for the most part, so let me make my review brief and to the point. Interview, Lestat, and Tale of the Body Thief were my favorite books of the four in the chronicles. Queen of the Damned, however was long, slow, and so detailed that it was the only book I managed to lose my attention to in streaks, and I have listened to them all unabridged, on tape, at work.
Sure, her books are a bit overrated, but they are also well-written and entertaining. Rice gives our dark heroes so much humanity that one can't help being attracted by them enough to want to become one as well at times. Nowhere is this point made more concise than by her favorite character, Lestat. I wish mortal men were as cool and insightful as "the brat prince!" Great, imaginative fun. Frank Muller's narration of the audio books is second to none.
Fantastic Reading!!!.......2007-09-16
I'm not big on vampire books but Anne Rice writes in such a way that you truly believe they are real people with real lives and all the thoughts and feelings we all have. In addition, they struggle with the issues of immortality and there are many.
great books from anne rice.......2007-01-28
i bought these books for my teen she couldnt put them down till they were all read anne rice is a great author
Thought provoking but belaboured.......2006-09-29
I would certainly recommend anyone who has an interest in this genre to read these books. Rice raises some very interesting concepts from the mind of the vampire. My only gripe (and a friend feels the same way) is that Rice tends to ramble - padding out relatively meaningless stuff, or stuff that you've already gleaned the concept of after two lines. I found myself skipping paragraphs & pages, which was detrimental to the flow. With some judicious editing and condensing they would be worthy of 5 stars. The fourth book doesn't quite hold up to the stds set with the first three...might be worth finding the trilogy.
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The Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles)
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Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo
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In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic
Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of
The Vampire Lestat. In
The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:
- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . .
- The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . .
- Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and make "all myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause" . . .
These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed. Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
This book presents the back story for the whole vampire race, with the story of the demon that gave them their abilities, and the introduction of the few ancient vampires other than the royal pair, and the amazing abilities they gain as they get older and older.
A new human character is introduced, Jesse, of the bloodline of one of these ancients, and also David Talbot, a researcher with a society devoted to investigating the supernatural. Jesse is turned when she is injured severely at the concert.
Lestat's rock concert antics have drawn the Queen out, and there will be conflict. This Queen is not just a she who must be obeyed type, but a she who must be obeyed or there will piles of thousands of bloody corpses everywhere at my bare hands type.
The Queen takes Lestat on a tour of the world, showing her plans. No-one else agrees with them, and conflict ensues, with the oldest vampire other than the Queen eventually taking her out, and taking her place.
Classic Rice, but misses the mark a bit.......2007-08-10
The third installment of the Vampire Chronicles starts off just about where the last left us. Lestat is preparing for his big moment, the first concert of his band The Vampire Lestat. It is at this concert that all Vampire hell is going to break loose as Lestat has awakened the oldest of them all...the Queen of the Damned.
Anne Rice again provides us readers with lavish descriptions and immense action. The one problem I have with this novel is the amount of characters she has all wrapped up in this one text. It starts off from the point of Lestat, but soon you find yourself in the world from the point of view of at least seven other characters. This is one time where Rice seems to have taken on a bit more than she can handle. Because of the fact that there are indeed so many characters, one can get lost and find themselves not even caring what really happens to them. The only saving grace is that they do all link up somehow in the end.
The only other complaint I have is the fact that, after all the years (6000 to be exact) that the Queen was dormant, the plan she comes up with is pretty weak. In a sense, its almost downright unbelievable (something most of Rice's characters are not).
Overall this is a good novel and is well worth reading; especially if you're already into The Vampire Chronicles. It may seem rushed at times, as well as there being to much information for you to try and take in, but stay with it because it all comes together in the end.
Queen of the Damned.......2007-08-01
Queen of the Damned is only a "must read" if you've taken the time to read the first two vampire novels in the anthology (Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat), and is only entertaining if you enjoy the characters as I do.
Anne Rice uses far-fetched notions (as usual); she seems to take the easy way out. Instead of coming up with somthing more inventive and exceptional, her characters are your typical, average, garden variety vampire who can not walk around in sunlight. Save for the fact that her characters each develop special powers (telekenisis, tremendous strength, flying, etc., etc), we're left with Bram Stokers idea of Dracula. Naturally this fact was instated in the very first novel, but nonetheless, it makes QOTD trivial.
Anne Rice uses words over and over and over again--the use of the word "preternatural" shows up so often I'd be willing to bet the average of appearances would be 5 times on every page.
Anne Rice also spends too much time utilizing description and letting her audience know what the character is thinking. Description and insight is of course essential to any good novel, but not when it's used beyond the necessary limitations. For example, one might find themselves reading a paragraph that runs on like this: So-and-So found themself staring at the great beyond while rising into the sky. Each tiny star but a pin-prick of light overseeing all of the world. "How long have these stars looked over us all?", So-and-So thought. It was too much to imagine what these stars have witnessed over the passing centuries and decades. The wind whipped around so-and-so's face and shifted his/her thoughts now to the great landscape--the mountain ranges and their dark, jagged black peaks which exploded up and beyond, disolving and melding into the night sky and serving as an ominous warning to So-and So...
I find myself rolling my eyes so many times over the course of a page.
I enjoy Anne's characters, but she has always annoyed me. It's hard to want to keep picking up her books because you have a tough time falling into the story. At least I do. Her writing reminds me all too often that this is a creation from the mind of Anne Rice and so what's the point of reading the story if it's all crap and made-up?
I read books like they are going out of fashion, so maybe that's why I can't help myself but to notice Anne's one-dimensional ego, as if she didn't need to put more effort into her books. Sometimes I get the feeling she was writing while high on something, the way she "lovingly" takes the time to poetically explian every single thing that is going on.
Either way, the book ranks well enough to be read but only because of the characters themselves. The storylines are so completely ridiculous in all Anne's novels, but especially so in QOTD, that's it's almost painful to keep reading.
Nice book, but a bit confusing and boring in the beginning.......2007-06-24
This is a lovely book, but the first time I read it I first read the prologue, then couldn't get through the first few chapter, so skipped half the book and happily read the rest. Then got back to the first half and now, having read the rest, finally nderstood it. Loved the way Rice's way of telling changed with the changing of POV. Also loved all the uneccesary side stories like Armand & Daniël and Baby Jenks. Did dislike Akasha somewhat, but loved the part in the end where she gets her head ripped off. A rather hard to follow and messy, but nevertheless wonderful novel.
Tedious and Dull, With the Occasional Moments of Brilliance.......2007-06-15
The first novel in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, "Interview with the Vampire" was a brilliant novel. Her sequel to that was "The Vampire Lestat" a highly acclaimed novel, yes, but a novel I found to be very meandering and dull. This novel, "The Queen of the Damned" is the third book and is told by Lestat but he is reduced to a supporting character in the novel. At the end of the previous novel, Lestat and his band (called The Vampire Lestat) were getting ready to perform their first concert in San Francisco. In this novel, Lestat takes the story back a week before that event to show us the vampires rising up in fury over this news. There aren't many rules in the vampire world, but one of them is "don't tell humans about us," a rule that Lestat's protégée Louis had already broken by writing "Interview with the Vampire." In a bar called Dracula's Daughter, someone has written a message that Lestat must be destroyed. If you've read the previous novel, you're familiar with Those Who Must Be Kept...The King and Queen of the Damned, Akasha and Enkil who are the first vampires and now stand still as statues, protected by Marius. If Akasha and Enkil are ever destroyed, it would mean the end for the entire vampire race. If they ever woke up, it would mean trouble for both the vampire and human race...And wake up they do. Akasha is awakened and sets out to make Lestat her lover so she can succeed in ridding the world of death and war by killing all men. Is that a spoiler? Perhaps, but don't worry about it too much. Everyone who has read this novel has admitted how stupid her plan is and the fact that a big chunk of the novel details her plan being put into action is disappointing. Most of the novel, however, details "the twins." Mysterious red-headed girls that have been appearing in people's/vampire's dreams. The story is interesting, but not interesting enough to go on for the length of time that Rice drags it out. Anne Rice is a good writer, in the sense that she comes up with interesting stories and creates wonderful characters. Her execution style of her stories is NOT that good and her books tend to grow dull, mostly because of her incredible attention to detail. She can literally write three pages about a character looking at a tree. Her decision to include a poem written by her (now late) husband Stan Rice at the beginning of every chapter seems motivated only by the fact that it's her husband's poems and not that they have anything to do with the passages themselves. I've read the first 70 pages of the next novel "The Tale of the Body Thief" and I'm finding that one succeeding much more on the entertainment level, but "The Queen of the Damned" does have its moments. My favorite part of the novel was the last 15 or so pages, with Lestat and Louis revisiting their New Orleans home and than meeting David Talbot, head of the Talamasca (a group which specializes in researching the supernatural). Since Lestat, Louis, Marius, Armand, Gabrielle, and Claudia are the characters that I think many readers will agree are the most interesting it's disappointing to read a book whose main characters are essentially Jesse, Maharet, and Khayman (I won't bother to explain who these characters are). For a book that runs 490 pages, about 200 of these pages are really and those last 15 pages are great...The rest of the novel is tedious and dull...If only Rice would've had a better editor. The movie version, which was a hastily thrown together adaptation of "The Vampire Lestat" and this novel bares little-to-no similarities to this book at all.
GRADE: C+
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The ornate, casket-like packaging and neogothic graphic design of this immortal trilogy is eerily enticing on its own. But just lift the lid, slide the first tape from its ghostly sleeve, and you'll soon embrace the hypnotic realm of the undead.
Book 1, Interview with the Vampire, opens with the seductive purr of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stating, "I was a 25-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was 1791." And so our ultimate antihero, Louis, begins the elaborate retelling of his long, tortured life as a vampire. Winding through the ages, from New Orleans to Paris, we follow Louis and his undying mentor, Lestat, as they feed on humans, whet their carnal appetites, and uncover an underworld of vampire brethren.
Book 2, The Vampire Lestat, brings us up to date, with Lestat waking from his earthen slumber to join the ranks of rock superstardom before sitting down to share the tale of his own haunting initiation into the vampire world. Michael York (Cabaret) puts his wonderfully fluid, cosmopolitan voice to good use, adding a dash of sly humor to this fast-paced, satisfying blend of sex and blood and rock and roll.
Book 3, The Queen of the Damned, takes us back, all the way back to ancient Egypt, exposing the origins of the vampire way. Narrating in eerily serene and gracious tones, Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) leads us gently down this bloody path of immortal desires. David Purdham gives the voice of Lestat a wistful quality, tinged with an evil relish that exposes the master vampire's sanguine tastes.
Anne Rice has continued her Vampire Chronicles beyond these three novels, but that shouldn't make this collection any less tempting to either the undead initiate or certified vampire junkie. --George Laney
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Coffin Package, this is a must for any Anne Rice fan - or the ideal start to introduce someone to the world of Anne Rice.
Coffin Package includes:
Interview with the Vampire (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by F. Murray Abraham)
The Vampire Lestat (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by Michael York)
The Queen of the Damned (2 cassettes/3 hours, read by Kate Nelligan)
Customer Reviews:
Vampire Chronicles 1-3.......2006-03-10
I would have preferred to have been able to buy these audio books on cd; however, they were unavailable. Since I had read them all so long ago, it was time to delve back into them. Buying audio books to bring on vacation, was the perfect idea! (I didn't have to worry about getting any suntan lotion on the pages!)
coffin box set.......2006-01-04
This coffin box Set Is a great addition to a collection of vampire Memorabilia . Open the lid (flap) to see who is inside. you can pick who is in the coffin, One is the child vampire and the other a dark haired male vampire.
The Best.......2000-09-25
Anne Rice is the best modern writer on vampires. I have read them all and she rocks. The coolest scenarios and she reads like an intelligent airport paperback book writer. Her writing goes down easy like a comic book. I have written a book on vampires too if you are interested. It's called Seamus and Emer. It's available on Amazon so take a look. Good Luck! Bye Bye!
Interview With The Vampire.......2000-09-10
I knew about Anne Rice, but I had never read any of her books before. I read Interview With The Vampire, and I couldn't put it down! It's one of the best books I've ever read. Now I'm reading the whole set. It was great!
Sink your teeth into this..........2000-07-07
... a fine set of Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. What a refreshing point of view and burning light to see vampires in. Rice gives us vampires with feelings - why shouldn't a vampire feel joy, pain and regret? Yes, bottom line is they are merciless killers, but this is the all-too often typecast image of vampires that Hollywood likes to betray. These immortals don't just sweep in with a dramatic flare of their capes (most of the time they don't even wear one), kill then leave - we experience their agony, hunger, happiness and turmoil before and after each kill. Anne Rice gives us so much more - imagine YOUR fears, regrets and hopes from your lifetime spread over an eternity. Would you really want immortality? What is right and what is wrong? Good and evil? The devil and God? Leave your humdrum life behind for a while and bury yourself (literally) in a world of fascinating, real characters in sumtuous, historic or sordid surroundings. Enjoy, but remember to put the lid back across when you're finished...
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The Vampire Chronicals.......2003-09-21
Of course the Vampire Chronicals has grown larger than these three books, but sometimes not for the better. These three are the best of the batch. It starts with "Interview" as Louis, a 200 year old vampire tells his life story to a young reporter. It is certainly the deepest, darkest, and more personal of the three, which was how Mrs. Rice was feeling at the time, as her young daughter had just died (comparable with Louis's heart brake when Claudia was killed). The next one is "Lestat". Lestat wakes up from an eighty year slumber and becomes a famous rock star in the tradition of Gene Simmons or Alice Cooper. But the majority of this book has to do with Lestat's education as a fledgling vampire in 18th centry France and his attempt to find the vampire teacher, Marius. In the third, "Queen", Lestat has angered the other vampires of the world by telling humans the legends and secrets of the vampires (disgised as music videos). As other blood drinkers are set to attack him, the Queen herself, the oldest and most powerful vampire in existance, saves Lestat, and offers him a position as her king. This book tells the origin of the vampire in early, pre-history Egypt.
This set of books sets up an interesting cast of charactors. they all represent some piece of humanity. Louis is loss and pain. Lestat is the devil may care lover of life who is a snob and shuns authority. Armand is the cold and distant object of beauty. Marius is the father figure they all obay, for the most part. There are others, like Claudia the willfull brat child.
This series dose not have as much action and violence as you'd expect from a horror novel, and they aren't really scary. They are more like a soap opera with ghosts and vampires (like a hipper version of "Dark Shadows"). There is a lot of meditation on the nature of good and evil, a lot of philosophy as to what it means to be powerful, and the need to kill, and endless moralizing. Religion is touched on briefly. Some people might find this fascinating, others endless whinning. It's like Plato, with murders here and there.
Excellent... Edge-of-your-seat reading!.......1998-10-22
These 3 books were amazing... a friend on-line pushed me into reading the first, and I eventually borrowed the second and third from my English teacher... I couldn't stop! Lestat, Louis.. they're wonderful characters. Marius, Pandora, the same. But Armand has always been my favourite. Always has, always will. I am absolutely AMAZED at the way Anne Rice writes, and I am drawn to her books like a pencil to paper!
This is the best book I've ever read........1998-08-12
It was great! These books were so wonderfully emotional and dark, I could practically see in my mind's eye Lestat and Louis, and I could feel the strength of the old ones.
Delicious. A creative, expressive piece of art........1998-07-13
Anne Rice has reached the ultimate boundary of thrills with the vampire chronicles. I felt I was one with the characters. Each page brought forth Anne Rice's imagination on paper. One of the best series of the decade. Diana.J
A wild ride........1998-04-08
The first three books of the vampire chronicles are the most exciting books that I've read in a long time. There's action, adventure, love, betrayal, and even a few lessons to be learned if you can read between the lines. Other books in the vampire chronicles don't compare to these three.
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or the first time you can find all your favorite night-stalking, blood-guzzling undead--Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch--all in the same place at the same time. Here -------- Engrossing and hypnotic tales of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being
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