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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
5.0
Credited with spurring on the vampire craze of the the last three decades (from [a:Joss Whedon|18015|Joss Whedon|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1302721520p2/18015.jpg]'s Buffy the Vampire Slayer to [a:Charlaine Harris|17061|Charlaine Harris|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1399317093p2/17061.jpg]'s Sookie Stackhouse series (of True Blood fame) and everything in between), [b:Interview with the Vampire|43763|Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)|Anne Rice|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1380631642s/43763.jpg|873132] (published in 1976) remains an exceptional literary achievement.
[a:Anne Rice|7577|Anne Rice|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1383250078p2/7577.jpg] reimagines vampire mythology and forces the reader to question what it means to be human.
Louis de Pointe du Lac, a vampire who wants to be human, tells all to Daniel Molloy, a young human reporter who can't stay away. Louis tells of his maker, the indomitable Lestat de Lioncourt, and the long lost vampire child Claudia. Louis recounts his flight from New Orleans in the New World to Old World Europe in search of other vampires. He finds no answers, and his wanderings over the centuries find him back in New Orleans, confessing to a human.
Interview with the Vampire is the first book in the Vampire Chronicles, the latest of which was published in 2014 ([b:Prince Lestat|21412673|Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)|Anne Rice|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394635385s/21412673.jpg|40713679]). While some additions to the series are less successful, all centre around the quest for humanity and the meaning in life.
And the movie was pretty good too.
[a:Anne Rice|7577|Anne Rice|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1383250078p2/7577.jpg] reimagines vampire mythology and forces the reader to question what it means to be human.
Louis de Pointe du Lac, a vampire who wants to be human, tells all to Daniel Molloy, a young human reporter who can't stay away. Louis tells of his maker, the indomitable Lestat de Lioncourt, and the long lost vampire child Claudia. Louis recounts his flight from New Orleans in the New World to Old World Europe in search of other vampires. He finds no answers, and his wanderings over the centuries find him back in New Orleans, confessing to a human.
Interview with the Vampire is the first book in the Vampire Chronicles, the latest of which was published in 2014 ([b:Prince Lestat|21412673|Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)|Anne Rice|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394635385s/21412673.jpg|40713679]). While some additions to the series are less successful, all centre around the quest for humanity and the meaning in life.
And the movie was pretty good too.