So I finally finished reading Interview with the vampire, my first thought about it was that it takes a looooong time to read it. The book itself doesn’t really look that intimidating, but after reading it for 3 hours straight and realizing you haven’t gotten through a quarter of the book yet you know it’ll take a while for it to finish.
It is worth it though, the whole reason this book takes so long for it to be read is because the writing is so intricate. Everything is explained in it’s fullest detail and is very nicely written.
Anne Rice’s writing makes almost everyone’s writing seem very simply written, except for Tolkien’s writing. After I finished this book I could read another book in about two days.
I should probably talk a little about the story instead of going on about how long it is.
The characters are really nicely developed. This is one of the things that really got me into the book. I think the most interesting character was Claudia, you really got to see her grow up in this book, not physically but mentally. First she was really cute, but she did get pretty scary and unpredictable when her mind grew up. And even though she was the smallest one of them all, she still was the most beautiful and terrifying of her kind.
It even made me scared of her. I felt really bad for her to have to be tiny or the rest of her life.
Through the entire book, every vampire seemed like it was missing something, and will be missing that thing through their entire existence. It seems like they are going through a never ending search, with Lestat it’s company, because he is terribly lonely. He’s looking for someone with the same frame of mind as his, the same way of thinking.
Claudia, is looking for femininity, because she will always stay small she has to show her
matured ness in other ways then her form. In a way she’ll never really get what she wants, because she will never be able to look like any of the other girls that are her mental age.
The whole story is very interesting, and is very appealing to the senses. The way Anne Rice describes all the scenes like New Orleans, Germany and Paris. Its like you’re truly with them. It enables you to really get sucked into the book and feel what’s going on. You can feel the tension between Lestat and Claudia when Claudia planning to kill him, and you know it wasn’t a good thing when she did. That somehow it was going to have really bad consequences.
I love how Claudia, in the later chapters, starts acting like a child when she’s scared. Her mind is so fully developed, yet when she feels like she’s in danger she turns into a little child. Like when Lestat “arose” from the dead. And they where following her.
She was acting like a kid. But as soon as danger is over she’s that twisted grownup and is
contemplating how she really should have killed Lestat.
Well, I think you can guess who my favorite and most observed character is.