I found Interview with a Vampire to be a good read. The Vampire Lestat was also good. Queen of the Damned went downhill a bit, and The Body Thief was terrible. (All IMAO, of course.) With The Body Thief, I really did not need a multi-page description of the torment Lestat went through with his first bowel movement of the last few hundred years.
She really jumped the shark with the fictionalized accounts of the early life of Jesus...
We pretty much agree on this. I loved the first three (including Queen of the Damned, although I can see the Signs, now, looking back)... but yeah. After that? Ugh. Just... ugh.
It seemed to be a trend with her books. Witching Hour was good, a bit icky in places, but generally good, but that series went downhill damn quick.
I thought the in-depth description of Lestat taking his first shit in three hundred years was good, actually. It's all about humanity, and having it and not.
What does it say about me when everytime I see a Twilight book, I suddenly get a strong complulsion for arsony? Specifically AT the book. I mean, I'm usually so against burning books so I feel conflicterd!
Honestly, I liked the books. I have written a bit about why I don't think Bella is a Mary Sue, though i admit she seems that way, but honestly it's more like she's a selfish, self centered teenage girl with low self esteem. She happens to be mildly pretty and she doesn't think she is, which makes her teenage boy bait, plain and simple. People fawn all over how she's unrealistic, but I just don't see it. She's unlikable, much of the time, but nobody ever said a protagonist had to be a decent person, a self aware person, or even a good role model. She may say she's selfless and kind, but that's because she thinks she is, not because it's true. it's one of the trappings of first person fiction.
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Date: 2008-11-22 06:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-22 06:54 am (UTC)I look back at that me of a few weeks ago and envy him.
Of course, I was reading incredibly daffy vampire fiction back when it was being written by Anne Rice....
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Date: 2008-11-22 06:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-22 07:01 am (UTC)I found Interview with a Vampire to be a good read. The Vampire Lestat was also good. Queen of the Damned went downhill a bit, and The Body Thief was terrible. (All IMAO, of course.) With The Body Thief, I really did not need a multi-page description of the torment Lestat went through with his first bowel movement of the last few hundred years.
She really jumped the shark with the fictionalized accounts of the early life of Jesus...
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Date: 2008-11-22 07:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-22 07:48 am (UTC)It seemed to be a trend with her books. Witching Hour was good, a bit icky in places, but generally good, but that series went downhill damn quick.
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