Vampire Bookring

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In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.

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Released at the 2007 Australian Bookcrossing convention

Picked up from the Table of Temptation at the Melbourne Convention. I had hoped this one was on my niece's Facebook wishlist but darn she's already read this one. I'll wild release it at the main bus stop where all the highschool kids catch the bus - some likely looking emo's there.

Thanks for sharing Woosang and for helping me search the table for the Anne Rice books.

Well, I've tried! I picked this up at the Melbourne BC convention because my niece likes Anne Rice but she's already read this one and several others. I then gave it the 50 page test even tho' it's not a genre I'd read because it was on the 1001 Books you must Read Before you Die list. I even pushed past to page 81 because I'm trying to read 10 books from the list as part of a reading challenge but I'm bored! I think this vampire is a 'suck'(pun intended) and a wuss.

Instead of leaving it at the bus stop I'll release on Halloween. I'll leave it in front of our letter box with a few other vampire books for the trick or treaters.

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at the bus stop in front of the neighbourhood house on Yarra St