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Old 05-21-2006, 02:12 PM
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the best Anne Rice books..

Well so far I've enjoyed

the vampire armand
Interview with a Vampire
Queen of the Damned
Pandora
The Vampire Lestat

Tale and the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil were bloody awful. I have yet to read Blood and Gold but I can see myself loving it because I'm in love with Marius. The chronicles involving Armand/Marius are far more interesting in my opinion than anything to do with Lestat..

I have a copy of Feast of All saints but I hear that it sucks..

What else should I read of hers?
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Good choices.
I'd have to say that my favorite is 'The Vampire Armand'.
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i've only read the vampire lestat, and i thoroughly enjoyed it
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I like the mayfair witch books better than the vampire chronicles. They're alot more sexual, and left me breathless, really.
EDIT- Oh, "Taltos", "Lasher", and "The witching hour"
EDIT AGAIN- Has anyone ever read any of her erotica books/stories?
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the vampire lestat is the only one ive ever been able to read. without skipping pages. i must have started pandora a billion times and thrown it down in disgust. i dont like anne rice. not at all.
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I've only read Interview with a Vampire, and that was only because I really liked the movie. I didn't really like the book.
It was okay, but hard to get through.

The reviews of Memnoch on amazon.com are really abusive. Kind of put me off.
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I've only read Interview with a Vampire, and that was only because I really liked the movie. I didn't really like the book.
It was okay, but hard to get through.

The reviews of Memnoch on amazon.com are really abusive. Kind of put me off.

Memnoch is horrid! Don't read...Skip Body thief as well

I'm reading through pandora..It's tedious but I need to feed my Marius obsession so I'm sticking it out
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the erotica/ sleeping beauty stories she did are good.
i liked pandora. and the vampire lestat

and if i can: ones i didnt much care for:
violin (was atrocious), queen of the damned, interview with the vampire (could not make it all the way through in one consecutive try, i think it took me 4 months to read completely.)

i used to like anne rice alot more than i do now. now i just think she's a bit long winded.
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They're all horrible.
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her son writes books about how gay he is. don't read them, they aren't good.

i enjoyed the witching hour. but i stopped reading it just because i didn't want to commit to a big 1000 page book. it's not that good. her stupid velvet drapery prose starts to eat at soul and suffocates me.
but if i was going to read another anne rice book, it would be that one.
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Everyone knows that the Vampire Chronicles were the best. I haven't read Feast of all Saints, but I saw the movie on Showtime and it wasn't quite what I expected. It deals with the placage system back in old New Orleans. Basically light-skinned African-American women were "kept" as mistresses by wealthy white men.They received money from them, lodging and even had placage balls. Yet it was still disturbing (women being prostituted, essentially), so in a way, it was typical of Anne Rice.
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The vampire ones are good, but not great.

However - her "Witching Hour" series are my favorite books of all time! Fantastic storytelling with rich, complex characters all set in a historical context where they're all linked by strong female characters....

After I read the Witching Hour series, I swore I'd never read another Anne Rice book because it was so good. I knew nothing she could do would ever compare to those stories. Eventually, I broke down and read some of the vampire stories and wasn't impressed at ALL.

I even named my cat Rowan
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They're all horrible.
agreed.
I used to love them, my tastes in literature [thankfully] become more...erm, sophisticated. The Vampire Armand...pure gay erotica, the only good thing shes got going in any of her books. I remember blushing to myself when reading that one, couldn't read it in public.
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They're all horrible.
Quite!
I hope when she dies there continue to be a horde of identikit homoerotic fey vampire novels written by H.A.Rice(TM), a la V.C.Andrews(TM).
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Are there any with femme fatale vampirella type characters in them?
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I loved 'Cry to Heaven' a lot. The rest, some were okay, some sucked. I also recently read her latest, the Jesus one, and was surprised that it was pretty damn interesting. A new perspective for me at least.
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really really really really REALLY do not read 'The Violin'. Hours of my life I will never get back wasted to read about a middle-aged woman crying snottily and fawning over a badly-described violin.

It's *terrible*.

I loved Armand.
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really really really really REALLY do not read 'The Violin'. Hours of my life I will never get back wasted to read about a middle-aged woman crying snottily and fawning over a badly-described violin.

It's *terrible*.

I loved Armand.
Aw I feel the exact opposite I loved Violin and found Armand quite boring. I recommend Cry to Heaven, Feast of All Saints and all the Mayfair wiches books (Lasher in particular). Avoid Merrick, The Vampire Vittorio and Ramses the Damned. As for Blood Canticle I'd advise everyone to give it a very, very wide berth, it's utter shite.
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How could you love it!? I bought it because I played violin for years and was still a little obsessed, and just hated it. It had tonnes and tonnes of potential and never fulfilled any of it!

I was so disappointed. Her relationship with her husband, her relationship with the ghost, the ghost's link to the violin, everything...it had all the Anne Rice trademarks of wanting to write about sensuality and wordless, taboo attraction but not having the strength or courage to really say it - I found 'Interview with the Vampire' frustrating for similar reasons.
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How could you love it!? I bought it because I played violin for years and was still a little obsessed, and just hated it. It had tonnes and tonnes of potential and never fulfilled any of it!

I was so disappointed. Her relationship with her husband, her relationship with the ghost, the ghost's link to the violin, everything...it had all the Anne Rice trademarks of wanting to write about sensuality and wordless, taboo attraction but not having the strength or courage to really say it - I found 'Interview with the Vampire' frustrating for similar reasons.
for some reason i think violin is semi-autobiographical. parts of her life were "fictionalized" and put into the book. i may have either read that somewhere a long time ago or heard it.
dont take my word for it though, i may be completely off base with this one.

but yes, i agree that it was absolutely terrible.
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