Anne Rice Novels

[Vilandra]

Saw that someone signed up with an AR username, so I thought I'd post a thread. Any readers out there?

[prydain]

I read two pages of Interview With the Vampire. I do plan on reading the whole thing. I love the movie Queen of the Damned and hope to read the book.

BTW, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE WITCHING HOUR ABOUT?! I mean...not a single edition of it in the library has a description...just a list of critical praise. I hate that.

[Vilandra]

It's about a family of witches - eventually those novels intersect withe the Vampire ones. :)

[prydain]

Ah. Is there a site that lists the order of the way Anne Rice should be read to ensure you getting the most sense out of it? lol

[Vilandra]

http://www.annerice.com/seenheard.htm

I'd pick either the Vampire Chronicles or The Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, and read probably the first three in either series before switching to the other. Or just go chronologically, which is how I did it as they came out :)

[prydain]

K, thanks!

We seem to like a lot of the same things...lol

[Allycat]

I've read the first thirty pages of Interview with a Vampire, but it was too boring to continue... then I found out the disturbing news that Anne Rice does not allow fanfic of her work and enforces this with all means available, and thus eversince I've taken a stance of boycoting her work.

[Vilandra]

Well you can't really judge a book on 30 pages...

[prydain]

She doesn't allow fanfiction? Forgive me, but that's really, really stupid. To stop your fans from expressing themselves is not a very kind thing to do.

[Vilandra]

Well she probably sees it as taking characters she created and perverting them for a lack of a better word. It's hard to see something you made used in what you see as an inferior manner.

Personally I wouldn't see anything wrong with it...though I'm not in her situation either. Bottom line, it's her creation, she can do what she wants with it.

[Allycat]

Very true, she can do what she wants with it, but I can also... I can choose to ignore her works and I do. ;)

[Angels baby101]

I've read Interview with a vampire as well as Queen of the Damned she is an excellent writter and i plan to read more of her books i'm just kinda lacking in the Reading area at this time lol

[XDruX]

Does anyone know her....? :rolleyes:

I never read an Anne Rice book and I was wondering " which one should I read first...."

Has anyone already read Rice's books?
What did you think about (which one did you prefer?) and which one should I read first?

[prydain]

I'm reading Interview With the Vampire right now, which is really good. I guess read that one first, lol.

[goldenboy]

Interview with the Vampire came first.

I think I've read maybe six or seven of them? Not sure. It's been ages. I really liked The Vampire Lestat, that might be my fave. I remember trying to imagine what Lestat's band would have sounded like, lol. For some reason I was thinking early Smashing Pumpkins, something like that....

The Witching Hour is good too. These books would make for really moody, slow moving TV shows...but slow's OK sometimes. They rely very much on narration and tons of moody description.

[XDruX]

Couldn' find IWAV at the library... Had to start with Memnoc the Demon (sorry for the spelling, too lazy to check....)... And I must say I quite like it! :D

[Vilandra]

Memnoch the Devil is fantastic - I even used it in a philosophy class once lol

[Beautiful Mistake]

I loved Memnoch the Devil as well. Strangely it was the first of Rice's books that I read, and still my favorite. Wayyy better than the movies

[Vilandra]

Let's face it: the movies suck lol

[prydain]

The movie as in Interview With the vampire and Queen of the Damned? I loved both of those, lol.

[Vilandra]

The acting in Interview is horrible and they jsut don't hold a candle to the books.

[prydain]

I don't know if I would say it was necessarily bad - I think what was happening was that they were trying to make the movie as gothic as possible and one of the aspects of true gothic style movies and TV is that it's melodramatic. :)

I thought Tom Cruise was good - he was better in that than most of his stuff, Brad Pitt was alright, and I liked Kristen Dunst. I didn't much like the acting of that one vampire...the one who wanted to bang Louis. :D

[Vilandra]

Tom Cruise was horrible imo