Interview with the Vampire

The Rumors are true. Interview with a Vampire was a really good read. I have to admit, I've always been interested in these blood sucking monsters, so it was about time I read Interview with a Vampire. It's part of that standard vampire literature. (Is that a genre?). The book stars Louis, a vampire telling a curious boy with a tape recorder what he's been up to the last couple hundred years. He grows up in eighteenth New Orleans Louisiana where he witnesses his brother's suicide. He's 'bitten', inconveniently, in the midst of his confusion and mourning over his brother death by a vampire named Lestat, a selfish character very different from Louis. The two don't get off to a good start and spend the rest of the novel at odds. Louis, unlike the majority of his fellow species, does not see immortality as a gift. He feels cursed and therefore bitter, helpless, and full of self hate. The majority of the novel is focused on Louis's inability to accept the fact he's a vampire. The book, though full of despair, if beautiful. I thought Rice pulled off the self pity story very well. Interview with a Vampire is full of details as well as history. It's not what I would call a fast read; this one took me a while, but that doesn't mean it's bad, just well deserving of your time. I definitely plan on reading the rest of the series.

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