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redfiona99(Huge spoilers for The Vampire Lestat or as far as I've got through it.)
That disclaimer is there mainly because I don't want to get torn apart by slavering Anne Rice fans. Because get this, the Vampire Chronicles are bad. Bad, bad, bad.
I saw Interview with a Vampire, thought it was okay, favourite character was Armand, liked Lestat and Claudia, absolutely hated Louis. I knew Brad Pitt was a good actor so I supposed it was the character.
But everyone was saying how good the book was, so it must have been the script. IWTV was in the library, so I got it out.
I found out it wasn't the script. Louis is the wimpiest, most utterly wet and soggy character ever commited to paper. I despised him.
Was working at the shop and The Vampire Lestat was lieing about so I borrowed it over the weekend.
And the beginning is not too bad. Sure I think there's a slight naivete in making 1984 seem like the big sunny best year ever (but that's because there were a lot of miners here before mad Maggie got her way)
But Lestat, Lestat is fun. He's fun when he's hating his family, he's fun when he's talking to Nicholas. In Paris he seems like a lot of fun. When he gets turned, it still all good, a little too much weeping for my taste but that he's highly strung has all ready been shown to us. Fine.
And then he turns Gabrielle and he goes all wimpy and wet. And since the writing has been okay up to this point I think that the problem is that Anne Rice cannot write sorrowful scenes. Not without turning her characters into puddles of mush.
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While I'm on about it, has there ever been a series of stories more determinedly aimed at the teenage girl market. These beautiful feminine young men who never age and are never boorish, and at the same time are not the slightest bit threatening.
And much with the weeping and angst or what?! If killing the innocent or the mortal full stop and living forever bother you that much, why don't you just step into the sunlight all of you.
Sheesh.
That being said, I'll finish the book (or rather finish it by skipping over the more nauseatingly soppy parts) and read Queen of the Damned, in the vain hope of finding a male character she doesn't emasculate. And the return of Lestat's more veneal side which I am quite fond of.
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That disclaimer is there mainly because I don't want to get torn apart by slavering Anne Rice fans. Because get this, the Vampire Chronicles are bad. Bad, bad, bad.
I saw Interview with a Vampire, thought it was okay, favourite character was Armand, liked Lestat and Claudia, absolutely hated Louis. I knew Brad Pitt was a good actor so I supposed it was the character.
But everyone was saying how good the book was, so it must have been the script. IWTV was in the library, so I got it out.
I found out it wasn't the script. Louis is the wimpiest, most utterly wet and soggy character ever commited to paper. I despised him.
Was working at the shop and The Vampire Lestat was lieing about so I borrowed it over the weekend.
And the beginning is not too bad. Sure I think there's a slight naivete in making 1984 seem like the big sunny best year ever (but that's because there were a lot of miners here before mad Maggie got her way)
But Lestat, Lestat is fun. He's fun when he's hating his family, he's fun when he's talking to Nicholas. In Paris he seems like a lot of fun. When he gets turned, it still all good, a little too much weeping for my taste but that he's highly strung has all ready been shown to us. Fine.
And then he turns Gabrielle and he goes all wimpy and wet. And since the writing has been okay up to this point I think that the problem is that Anne Rice cannot write sorrowful scenes. Not without turning her characters into puddles of mush.
~~~~
While I'm on about it, has there ever been a series of stories more determinedly aimed at the teenage girl market. These beautiful feminine young men who never age and are never boorish, and at the same time are not the slightest bit threatening.
And much with the weeping and angst or what?! If killing the innocent or the mortal full stop and living forever bother you that much, why don't you just step into the sunlight all of you.
Sheesh.
That being said, I'll finish the book (or rather finish it by skipping over the more nauseatingly soppy parts) and read Queen of the Damned, in the vain hope of finding a male character she doesn't emasculate. And the return of Lestat's more veneal side which I am quite fond of.
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Date: 2003-07-27 10:25 am (UTC)While I'm on about it, has there ever been a series of stories more determinedly aimed at the teenage girl market. These beautiful feminine young men who never age and are never boorish, and at the same time are not the slightest bit threatening.
TWINKAGE!
Maybe there's vampire slash fanfic! (If not, it must be because the twinking has already been done, so what's left for teenage girls to fantasise about? *G*)
Anne Rice cannot write sorrowful scenes. Not without turning her characters into puddles of mush.
Just like so many fanfic writers. Maybe that's where she got her start.
And much with the weeping and angst or what?! If killing the innocent or the mortal full stop and living forever bother you that much, why don't you just step into the sunlight all of you.
Because that would end her novel after about ten pages, and it's hard to sell a ten-page novel. =)
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Date: 2003-07-27 11:46 am (UTC)Oh, you mean they're supposed to be that wet. In that case, I'll just despair in general. But yes, it's filled to the gills with them.
>>TWINKAGE!<<
I was desperately trying not to think that. You have a point, if someone wrote a fanfic like this, it would get labelled, hazardous, contains much twinking.
>>Maybe there's vampire slash fanfic! (If not, it must be because the twinking has already been done, so what's left for teenage girls to fantasise about? *G*)<<
Apparently, the lady threw the world's most almighty hissy fit and forbade all people to write fanfiction about her characters. And has threatened (and apparently done) legal action to stop sites that feature it. She claims it's because she's too attached to the characters, I say it's because most fanfic writers could do a better job ;)
>>Because that would end her novel after about ten pages, and it's hard to sell a ten-page novel. =)<<
LOL
And here's a link about the ban
Date: 2003-07-27 12:02 pm (UTC)Re: And here's a link about the ban
Date: 2003-07-27 02:27 pm (UTC)However, most people don't get that worried about it. Not like you can legally make any money from fanfic.
Re: And here's a link about the ban
Date: 2003-07-27 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-27 02:24 pm (UTC)I was desperately trying not to think that. You have a point, if someone wrote a fanfic like this, it would get labelled, hazardous, contains much twinking.
Call a spade a spade. =)
Ugh, Anne.
Date: 2003-07-27 04:21 pm (UTC)And Louis, dear god. "It is so HARD to be ME. Because I ANGST and WHINE and Lestat won't CUDDLE ME." Psht.
And trust me, it only gets worse.
Re: Ugh, Anne.
Date: 2003-07-27 05:21 pm (UTC)Well if you find out be sure to tell me :)
The best summary of Louis ever.
Didn't actually mind the end of the book, but there's going to be a whole other post about that.
Re: Ugh, Anne.
Date: 2003-07-27 07:42 pm (UTC)Alas, there's a market for it.