Interview with the Vampire: Rating: 3.5 stars

A vampire gives an interview. You wanna know more, read the damn book.

Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Written by Anne Rice
Fiction · Fantasy
Reviewed October 18, 2008

I like vampires, but I am kind of leery of vampire books, since they usually let me down. I Am Legend was good but not excellent, Dracula was dreck, and don’t even get me started on the goddamn Twilight series. I’ve been avoiding Anne Rice for years, but finally decided it was time to get my vampire canon on. So I started at the beginning, and…

… *zzzzsnort* wha?… Oh, sorry; I fell asleep remembering the first half of this book, because it was so boring. Parts of the story are interesting — Louis’s “turning”, the child-vampire Claudia, the general story-as-interview setup — but there are extended passages so fatally dull that it’s like Anne Rice’s words are eyeball-sucking vampires draining the interest from my brain. There were times when I had to grit my metaphorical teeth and force myself to turn the page, knowing that if I put the book down now I would never bother returning to it. The ending picked up quite a bit, enough to bump my rating up a star, but not enough to make me run out and get more Rice (heh).