Anne Rice Options

[Pandora]

Ok,I feel as if Im the only person who LOVES the Vampier Chronicles, by Anne Rice. If they'er are others out there please come forward. Don't keep me in the dark any more.

[Twitching]

I liked them. I only made it up to Queen of the Damned though, so I can't speak for the books after that.

You should probably check out Laurell K. Hamilton too. She's got a pretty good set of books, especially the first ones in the Anita Blake series.

[Snugglebum the D...]

Or if you want something a little more upbeat try Nancy A Collins, The Sonja Blue Collection.

I've read all of the Anne Rice books. On the whole they were pretty good but I found Interview with a Vampire to be really ball aching. I'm not sure whether that's because I've seen the film so many times though. *shrug*

[LoLo]

I like Anne Rice books for a number of reasons:
-Her writing style makes me happy.
-Her characters are interesting and unique at least in my opinion.
-She is historically accurate in many things, which I think is cool.
-The chronicles actually helped me in my western civ class.
-The list goes on and on.

So just out of curiosity Pandora, did you choose that name because of Anne Rice's character or because or the Greek Goddess or just because?

[Clint Eastwood]

i sort of have a love hate relationship with Anne Rice. on the one hand, her books got me through puberty with my literacy intact. on the other hand, i vomit whenever i try to read through the chronicles again.

well.. maybe not vomit. but after getting into stuff by Kerouac and Palahniuk and Welsch.... i dunno... whenever i go back i find something lacking..

a point perhaps?

i used to have an unshakable belief that Rice was more then escapist fantasy, but now when i try to compare it to Death of a Salesman or One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest...

but dear lord, back in the day, those damn books were my bibles. i used to draw the characters out as best i could from their descriptions and make short comics and such. i was obsessed with them for sure.

[SteelWingedCheru...]

I’m a big fan of Anne Rice and the vampire chronicles; I love anything to do with vampirism so naturally I enjoyed the series. I thought the books were great but not many people seem to share the same enthusiasm as I do. I absolutely loved "Interview with a vampire" and “Queen of the Damned” in both book and film form, both books are masterpieces the stories are deep and dark and the characters are so lifelike and beautiful

[Artemisia]

Yes, I too admit to liking the Vampire Chronicles. Haven't read them all though. There's just something so...darkly erotic...about them. Same with her other non-vampire books. I find she's a really different writer, and I am often stunned...either by beauty or revulsion....more often the latter....by the imagery in her works. I find I'm always drawn completely into her world, and I like it, no matter how disturbing it becomes. Even when she lays the homosexual pedaphilic erotica on a bit too thick in "The Vampire Armand."

Yeah, Armand and Louis are my favorite vampires. What about you guys?

[LoLo]

Yeah, Armand and Louis are my favorite vampires. What about you guys?

Pandora and Marius are mine.

I have to disagree with SteelWingedCherub though on the movie "Queen of the Damend." My basis is because of my adoration for the character Marius and the way that they make him appear all vicious and what not in the movie. He also didn't make Lestat, which to me changed the whole feel for the stories. I think they could have done better, but I don't like the movie when put in comparison with the books.

[Non-Objective Po...]

but after getting into stuff by Kerouac and Palahniuk and Welsch.... i dunno... whenever i go back i find something lacking..

I get that, i read on the road when i was quite young, so i find a lot of books that people my age rave about to be quite shallow, vapid if you will...

[antagony]

I used to like Anne Rice, a few years ago. I only read the first three Vampire Chronicles (plus one later one which I can't remember) and I think they started out well, but kind of went downhill from there. I probably wouldn't like them if I read them again, but I did at the time and that counts for something. I also read one of Anne Rice's other books and it was brilliant, so... she should just stop writing those Vampire Chronicles. She's a good writer but from what I've heard she's just repeating herself. It's a waste, if you ask me.

The movie they made of Queen of the Damned was awful though. The book itself wasn't that great, but... that movie just makes me want to cry. What exactly happened to the plot?

[Iolily]

They're beautiful, erotic and dark but something doesn't feel right, lack of depth or something along those lines. Books that you can fall into and get lost completely are not hugely common though, The Vampire Chronicles come close but no cigar..

I love Armand, the twisted little chap

[ravein]

I love pretty much all of the Vampire Chronicles.. but the real shine of those books is Pandora’s story and the story of Marius .. those two really shine to me.. it is just good story telling... and as lo said it is normally very accurate of the time period. The Queen of the Dead was a excellent book.. but the movie SUCKED.. it was quite possibly the worse movie I have ever seen.. and I have seen some swill in my life.. The Sleeping Beauty Chronicles are some of Anne Rice’s better works.. but not may people have read them..or have the stomach to read them..

[franken-sarah]

I love The Vampire Chronicles, to say I have a passing interest in all things Vampyric is an understatement!! I love the characters Rice creates and that her vampires are highly romantacised - the type I like, as opposed to ripping out throats here there and everywhere variety!!

And, I'm with LoLo on the fav vampire front, Marius is a fantastic character; intelligent, passionate and exotic. *sighs*

[Pandora]

WOW!!!!! So I'm not alone. I agree that the movie Queen Of the Damned was krap. The book was also very difficult to fallow. That is way my two favorite books have to be Blackwood Farm and, you guessed it Pandora.

And to Answer your Question, LoLo, I choose the name of Pandora for my love of Greece Mytholigy and after Annie Rice's character Pandora.

[LoLo]

And to Answer your Question, LoLo, I choose the name of Pandora for my love of Greece Mytholigy and after Annie Rice's character Pandora.

I have a cousin actually named Pandora. Her dad had a thing for Greek mythology too.

[Mr Fuzzy]

I'm happy enough to read Anne Rice books, but could we possibly get a petition going to make here use the word 'preternatural' a little less? Please?

[Pandora]

I couldn't agree with you more!