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hannmsha 's review for:
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
Update 2024: I found this overall more enjoyable the second time around. I think a lot of this has to do with having seen AMC’s Tv show (EXCELLENT show btw) which allowed me to imagine everything more vividly. I do find Anne Rice’s descriptions of the overall setting and events to be a bit lacking in vivid detail, it’s like a surface retelling that skips a lot. I do prefer the show and its new takes over the originals but of course that wouldn’t exist without this original source material. I am looking forward to the next two books in the series which will be new to me!
Original Review 2018:
The first half of this was absolutely stunning! Unfortunately, the second half was a bit of a drop. Overall, I did quite like this book. Here are some choice quotes that I really love:
"The great adventure of our lives.
What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? And what is 'the end of the world' except a phrase, because who knows even what is the world itself? I had now lived two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void; the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before He made light. Ticking, ticking, ticking, the precision of the clock, in a room as vast as the universe."
"A shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised us, wrongly... wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored."
Original Review 2018:
The first half of this was absolutely stunning! Unfortunately, the second half was a bit of a drop. Overall, I did quite like this book. Here are some choice quotes that I really love:
"The great adventure of our lives.
What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? And what is 'the end of the world' except a phrase, because who knows even what is the world itself? I had now lived two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void; the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before He made light. Ticking, ticking, ticking, the precision of the clock, in a room as vast as the universe."
"A shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised us, wrongly... wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored."