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AIBU?

to think Interview with a Vampire is a piece of crap and the reviews lied to me.

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knittynoodle · 16/10/2011 20:07

Ok, perhaps I jumped on this band wagon 20 years too late but I've just finished reading this slow, drawn out novel after everyone I know (except one friend) said it was the definitive vampire novel. Even the reviews from Amazon were great.

I just found it all so childish and although everyone says its not like the porn filled stereotypical vampire yarn, I found that it was exactly that! The repressed homosexuality was glaring, and the 'sensual' child vampire just freaked me out.
I couldn't follow Anne Rice's writing because she spends too long describing what everyone is thinking, you don't get any real description of the beauty of Paris, and it felt very much like she wanted to write erotica but bottled it, so made it about vampires instead.

Dracula is the definitive vampire novel. Also, I hate the bitch for spawning Stephanie Meyer (who is also sexually repressed if you ask me!)

AIBU? My DP loved it [hmmm]

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BabyJanesDummy · 16/10/2011 20:09

Yeah, I think its rubbish too, but my DH thinks its very good, go figure!

FearTricksPotter · 16/10/2011 20:10

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JamieComeHome · 16/10/2011 20:10

the film was rubbish too.

JamieComeHome · 16/10/2011 20:11

Xpost FearTricks !

I can't forgive Keanu Reeves his terrible accent, and it was sooooo looongggg

BarbarianMum · 16/10/2011 20:13

I liked it when I was 13

FearTricksPotter · 16/10/2011 20:14

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Earthdog · 16/10/2011 20:14

Oh I loved the film!

EsmeWeatherwax · 16/10/2011 20:16

Gosh, no, yanbu, it's shite. I read it years ago when I was a teenager, even then I thought it was mince. The next two are quite good as I remember though, much faster paced at the very least. Probably quite childishly over done too though, I haven't read them for years. All very angsty.

purplewerepidj · 16/10/2011 20:17

Anne Rice's vampires are awesome. But I hated Interview With, worst of the lot IMO!

LiegeAndLief · 16/10/2011 20:17

Maybe you should have watched the film instead. I was utterly obsessed with it at about 16 and can still remember most of the words - and Antonio Banderas makes a much more attractive vampire than Robert Pattinson.

LiegeAndLief · 16/10/2011 20:18

x-post with Earthdog

EsmeWeatherwax · 16/10/2011 20:18

Ann Rice also writes erotica under a pseudonym btw, and some of her other books, Cry to Heaven, off the top of my head are just out and out gay porn.

GlitterySkulls · 16/10/2011 20:18

personally, i loved it.

the vampire lestat was a better read, though.

dawntigga · 16/10/2011 20:20

YANBU

It'sAReadItCosIBoughtItBookTiggaxx

EllaDee · 16/10/2011 20:20

Oh lord. I read a fair amount of Anne Rice when I was 13 or so, hoping that the sex would at some stage become interesting. It didn't.

IIRC, she write about someone having sex with a child at one point, fairly graphially (Arnaud? Armand? Summat like that). And apparently - though to be fair to the woman I don't know if this is true - when her son told her he was gay she told him she 'knew' he wasn't because she knew all about gay men from writing her books.

Pile o' shite.

AnyoneButLulu · 16/10/2011 20:22

I loved IWTV, but I was, crucially, 13. It is not a book to be read for the first time as an actual grown-up.

chocolateyclur · 16/10/2011 20:23

Anne Rice's writing style makes me want to poke out my eyes with sharp sticks.

LetThereBeRock · 16/10/2011 20:23

YABU.I love it,even if they ruined Armand's character.

I'm not fond of Anne Rice herself though. She won't allow anyone to write fanfic based on her books.

WillowFae · 16/10/2011 20:25

Each to his own. I LOVE The early Vampire Chronicles. Vampire Lestat is my favourite one.

EllaDee · 16/10/2011 20:25

LTBR - crikey, that's pretty funny since there are reams of it out there! Or were when I was 13. It was like my gateway fanfic. Ah, the memories.

It was dire.

WillowFae · 16/10/2011 20:26

LetThereBeRock but she is great on fb. Interacts well with fans.

cuttingpicassostoenails · 16/10/2011 20:27

Try "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King...the most frightening vampire novel I have ever read.

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LetThereBeRock · 16/10/2011 20:28

I'm sure it's still out there,but it's not easy to find,or at least it wasn't the last time I looked, a year or so ago,because she's threatened to sue fanfic writers.

LostInTheWoods · 16/10/2011 20:29

As a silly old goth, I'll say this:

Reading Interview is like wading through congealed blamange. Urgh.

The Vampire Lestat (next one in the series) however, is brilliant.

LetThereBeRock · 16/10/2011 20:31

Perhaps she's nice on FB,but threatening to sue fanfic writers isn't acceptable imho. She may have loosened up over the years however.

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