I've just finished reading the sequel to Interview, 'The Vampire Lestat' (the Tom Cruise role in
Interview) and whilst it's well-written, it really drags in places. I think Anne Rice is probably the Tolkien of the vampire franchise (with Bram Stoke being the Lovecraft perhaps? :shifty: ) as her prose is very arty and long-winded, if beautiful in an awful kind of way as she does write Lestat with cerise-coloured specs when really they should be claret since he lurves his blood... :twisted:
Certainly she seems a better literary bet than Stephanie Meyer who appears to be a frankly silly 'sanitiser' from the films (never read the books, so this is only my not fully-informed opinion BTW
) and her history of the ancient vampires who 'made' Lestat and Armand (Antonio Banderas leader of the Theatre of Vampires) is pretty interesting in this 2nd volume of the Chronicles. However as I've only seen the film and not read the book of Interview I don't know if the lead book has a similar problem with being too wordy... I'm now reading The Vampire Armand (she has trouble being original with her titles too as there's another, not in the same series called Vittorio the Vampire! :naughty: ) and that certainly is meandering to the point of being tedious although she's finally got him turned about midway through the book so it may start to get a little more pacey - I live in hope...
