https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu en-us 2017-11-16 13:35:21 UTC 2017-11-22 00:50:48 UTC hello@padlet.com riv21164 https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/207645369 By Anne Rice                                Pic:
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Rice, Anne. Interview With The Vampire. Ballantine Books, 1976.]]> 2017-11-16 13:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/207645369 riv21164 https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209290980 In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination ...sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable'. ]]> 2017-11-21 22:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209290980 riv21164 https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209292447 I think the reviewer's use of the word "gifted" was not very enlightened. The only person who would agree that eternal life is a gift, is "the boy", who interviewed Louis, the vampire. It is safe to assume that judging by his response to Louis' "eerie" life story by begging him to turn him into a vampire. He somehow thinks the life of a vampire is more satisfying than that of a human's, even though Louis has experienced both and would disagree. 
I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in what it is like basically to be a vampire and anyone who can stand the descriptive mention of blood.]]> 2017-11-21 23:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209292447 riv21164 https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209296009 Context: "Then I asked him if I was completely dead. My body was tingling and itching all over." -Louis

Quote: ..."You should be dead by tonight. Go to sleep" (Rice 25).

Response: Lestat knows how dreadful it is to be a vampire, he has been one for a long while. He knows exactly what he had just done to Louis, a clueless human. Yet, he acts so nonchalant telling him he will be dead (which is what he wanted, but not in this way) soon and commanding him to go to sleep. He is too selfish to give him any insight for the eternal life he is soon starting.]]> 2017-11-21 23:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209296009 riv21164 https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209299431 If I were to cast someone to be Lestat for a remake of this book's movie, it would be Christian Slater. I think he would be a good fit for the role of Lestat based on his performance as Jason Dean in Heathers. Jason Dean successfully murdered conceited classmates of his, at his new high school by having his new sidekick, Veronica, write suicide notes to place by their corpses. He didn't hesitate to kill anyone for his personal benefit, just like Lestat had learned to do. ]]> 2017-11-22 00:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/riv21164/11nyi4hsq9mu/wish/209299431