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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
The Legend of the Twins was driving me to speed through this whole book because I wanted to find out what it was all about. As always, the story-telling and imagery are vivid and disturbingly real. A lot of history and ground is covered here, along with extensive discourse about good and evil and philosophy about how the power and rule of women could potentially change the dynamics of the world. The role of the woman is strong in this book, though somewhat anticlimactic.
Again, the interesting phenomenon happened here, of having read a seemingly random book that connects itself to the current book I'm reading. I read a book about the goddess Inanna recently by pure recommendation--it wasn't in my queue and I would have never known to read it otherwise. In Queen of the Damned this goddess Inanna is mentioned briefly and I wouldn't have known anything about her at all if it wasn't for the book I read last month. Not that I needed to know extensively about her in order to move forward in this book, but knowing the reference definitely brought a different dimension of understanding. I always feel the synchronicity when this happens.
If this series was only three books long, I would be happy stopping here. But I see that it goes on for fourteen books and that seems a bit too much for me. I may stop now at #3 and rest before going on to #4. However, I've had this book since the mid-1990's and am glad that I finally read it.
"Behold, earthshaking inventions which are useless or obsolete within the same century--the steamboat, the railroads; yet do you know what these meant after six thousand years of galley slaves and men on horseback? And now the dance hall girl buys a chemical to kill the seed of her lovers, and lives to be seventy-five in a room full of gadgets which cool the air and veritably eat the dust. And yet for all the costume movies and the paperback history thrown at you in every drugstore, the public has no accurate memory of anything; every social problem is obvserved in relation to 'norms' which in fact never existed, people fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all." pg. 83 (spoken by Armand)
"'I would be that creature, the one whose voice I had chosen. Sometimes for years. Then the horror would return, the realization that I was a motionless, purposeless thing condemned to sit forever in a golden shrine! Can you imagine the horror of waking suddenly to that realization? That all you have seen and heard and been is nothing but illusion, the observation of another's life? I would return to myself. I would become again what you see before you. This idol with a heart and brain.'" pg. 237 (spoken by Akasha)
Again, the interesting phenomenon happened here, of having read a seemingly random book that connects itself to the current book I'm reading. I read a book about the goddess Inanna recently by pure recommendation--it wasn't in my queue and I would have never known to read it otherwise. In Queen of the Damned this goddess Inanna is mentioned briefly and I wouldn't have known anything about her at all if it wasn't for the book I read last month. Not that I needed to know extensively about her in order to move forward in this book, but knowing the reference definitely brought a different dimension of understanding. I always feel the synchronicity when this happens.
If this series was only three books long, I would be happy stopping here. But I see that it goes on for fourteen books and that seems a bit too much for me. I may stop now at #3 and rest before going on to #4. However, I've had this book since the mid-1990's and am glad that I finally read it.
"Behold, earthshaking inventions which are useless or obsolete within the same century--the steamboat, the railroads; yet do you know what these meant after six thousand years of galley slaves and men on horseback? And now the dance hall girl buys a chemical to kill the seed of her lovers, and lives to be seventy-five in a room full of gadgets which cool the air and veritably eat the dust. And yet for all the costume movies and the paperback history thrown at you in every drugstore, the public has no accurate memory of anything; every social problem is obvserved in relation to 'norms' which in fact never existed, people fancy themselves 'deprived' of luxuries and peace and quiet which in fact were never common to any people anywhere at all." pg. 83 (spoken by Armand)
"'I would be that creature, the one whose voice I had chosen. Sometimes for years. Then the horror would return, the realization that I was a motionless, purposeless thing condemned to sit forever in a golden shrine! Can you imagine the horror of waking suddenly to that realization? That all you have seen and heard and been is nothing but illusion, the observation of another's life? I would return to myself. I would become again what you see before you. This idol with a heart and brain.'" pg. 237 (spoken by Akasha)
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
-I was so excited to read this and expected it to be my fav of the series so i was even more disappointed
-Anne Rice's writing style works better from one pov where she has a whole book to explore a single character's backstory
-there were too many pov's and in the end I understood how they connected, but the relevation wasn't satisfying enough to balance out the first half of the book where she kept changing pov's
-I still find the lore fricking incredible tho
-Anne Rice's writing style works better from one pov where she has a whole book to explore a single character's backstory
-there were too many pov's and in the end I understood how they connected, but the relevation wasn't satisfying enough to balance out the first half of the book where she kept changing pov's
-I still find the lore fricking incredible tho
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
freakatron 3000
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Anne Rice unfortunately proves to the most unreliable narrator in a series that at one point had the trope figured out. I think for all of its many faults — like using a strawman caricature to argue the failings of feminism in a way that could be mistaken for the work of J.K. Rowling — its worst is in its completely doing away with the trope that you cannot rely on what you’re being told. Rather than using the first person as a tool like in Interview where contradictions are used to legitimize the themes… QoftD begins by essentially telling the reader that this story is told as faithfully as possible, without any irony. There’s nothing behind any deeper dissection of someone’s POV being unreliable. This book turns its back on moral ambiguity in favor of having Chosen Ones, and black and white, and hero’s and villains. For god’s sake even Armand’s entire characterization is thrown out in favor of repainting him as one of lord Lestat’s most virtuous and forgiving disciples.
It’s ironic that Anne Rice had her whole tirade on fan fiction considering that at best this is a disappointing fanfiction for the original book in the series that did not need anything further to be said on the subject.
It’s ironic that Anne Rice had her whole tirade on fan fiction considering that at best this is a disappointing fanfiction for the original book in the series that did not need anything further to be said on the subject.
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
I love that gay ass vampire lestat
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes