Renee began Throwback Thursday at Its Book Talk as a way to share some of her old favorites as well as sharing books that she wants to read that were published over a year ago. Books that were published over a year ago are almost always easier to find at libraries or at a discounted sale price. As I have been sifting through my TBR list and purging those books that no longer hold my interest, I came across several from years past that I’d love to share with you!
Title: Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1) by Anne Rice
Published: May 1977
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force — a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. (from Goodreads)
That has to the one of the shortest book descriptions that I have ever seen on Goodreads. Most of them are usually so long I get bored of reading them before I get to the end. I must admit, I had absolutely no idea that this book had been published in the 70’s. I have read it a couple of times over the years and had it in my head that it was published in the 90’s. During my teenage years I was absolutely obsessed with all of Rice’s Vampire chronicles. Lestat was my jam. I doubt I will ever read them again (mostly because I gave away my copies of the books to the library the last time I moved) but I still have fond memories of all of The Vampire Chronicles. Also, Lestat and company are far more entertaining vampires than those twinkly teen drama soaked ones. You know who I mean.
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I read that when I was 15 after seeing the movie. I won’t read anymore of them but it was good 🙂
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Loved this book. Read it in Belize when I was teaching out there. Went on to read pretty much all of them plus the Mayfair Witches books. Great stuff.
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Rice did it best. There are no better vampire stories outside of Dracula than the ones she wrote. My favorite of that series was Tale of the Body Thief.
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I think my favourite was Memnoch. I’m a sucker for that Milton/Dante influenced stuff. I liked Vittorio as well, which I think was a great standalone story.
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My favourite vampire stories are here if you’re interested. https://richardaustinwriter.com/2017/10/02/v-is-for-vampires-and-val/
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