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I recently read Lestat, and figured I'd give this one a read too.

Louis is a 200 year old vampire. He has lived many lives, known many people and other vampires, struggled with balancing his remaining human thoughts and tendencies with the necessities of vampiric life and seen history being made. Now he is going to share his story with the world.

I have to admit to being disappointed with this book. It is not that the plot or characters are poorly crafted, indeed, they are quite interesting. However I had a strong dislike for the writing in this book. It was extremely melodramatic and Rice clearly had an absurd love of wordy, overused, cliche terms and descriptions. When there were not enough ridiculous, but well known, terms already in the English language, she seemingly spliced them together, resulting in some completely foolish words when used as descriptions for vampires. (When Louis called himself a "supermortal" I groaned aloud and hit myself in the forehead with this book. Luckily it's not very large, so no harm was done.)

Having read Lestat, which is not a masterpiece but not bad either, I guess you can tell what an advantage 10 years of practice gives. I recommend those interested in Anne Rice's works skip this one and just start with Lestat. You don't need the torture.

Added to Flossie771's Paranormal Bookbox

This book came home in my paranormal bookbox.

Placing in princess-peapod's spring cleaning bookbox.

This book came home in JennyC1230's Kitchen Sink Bookbox.

This book must have been mixed up with another bookbox. I read this a long time ago, I think this book started the recent vampire craze in books, movies, etc. I loved this story better than any of her other books. I'm not going to read this again, so I need to figure out where this book will go next.

This book is starting out in the ABC (Already Been Crossed) Bookbox.

Took out of an ABC bookbox and replacing it with Living Life as a Thank You.

Started reading.

I finished this book last night. It wasn't what I was expecting. I agree with JennyC that this book was the beginning of the vampire phrase. I am going to put it in my ABC restart bookbox that I am going to get restarted next week.

Enjoy! In my ABC Replacement box. 2012 KTM, 1001 Read, and The "THE" release challenges.