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kiwisandher 's review for:
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice
Not only did it feel completely separate from the first book, the framing device and the main story felt completely separate from each other-but I still liked it is the thing!!
There are long, poetic passages of Anne Rice wrestling with her own concepts of good and evil that are great philosophical bon mots surrounded by unhinged vampire lore she’s clearly making up on the spot but that’s stunningly inventive and compelling. Somehow it works!
While the vampires are sympathetic, they are also repulsive and I’m not sure that was the author intent (or how many fans read it), but for me it’s what makes the philosophies they present that much richer. If the first book was about the evils of apathy, this one starts with unveiling the trap of believing that beauty is inherently good before questioning the binary of good/evil entirely. Lestat at the outset believes that the pursuit of beauty is the only measure of good man can hope to achieve in a nihilistic world (or Savage Garden as he calls it), but comes to decide that since nothing matters at all beauty is equally pointless and only the chaos of provoking an eternal, immortal war will bring anything close to meaning to his actions. I’m excited for Queen of the Damned!
There are long, poetic passages of Anne Rice wrestling with her own concepts of good and evil that are great philosophical bon mots surrounded by unhinged vampire lore she’s clearly making up on the spot but that’s stunningly inventive and compelling. Somehow it works!
While the vampires are sympathetic, they are also repulsive and I’m not sure that was the author intent (or how many fans read it), but for me it’s what makes the philosophies they present that much richer. If the first book was about the evils of apathy, this one starts with unveiling the trap of believing that beauty is inherently good before questioning the binary of good/evil entirely. Lestat at the outset believes that the pursuit of beauty is the only measure of good man can hope to achieve in a nihilistic world (or Savage Garden as he calls it), but comes to decide that since nothing matters at all beauty is equally pointless and only the chaos of provoking an eternal, immortal war will bring anything close to meaning to his actions. I’m excited for Queen of the Damned!