Interview with the Vampire

De: Anne Rice

Narrado por: Simon Vance

40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). • The inspiration for the hit television series

The time is now.

We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .

He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life . . . learning first to sustain himself on the blood of cocks and rats caught in the raffish streets of New Orleans, then on the blood of human beings . . . to the years when, moving away from his final human ties under the tutelage of the hated yet necessary Lestat, he gradually embraces the habits, hungers, feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures.

He carries us back to the crucial moment in a dark New Orleans street when he finds the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her, struggling against the last residue of human feeling within him . . .

We see how Claudia in turn is made a vampire--all her passion and intelligence trapped forever in the body of a small child--and how they arrive at their passionate and dangerous alliance, their French Quarter life of opulence: delicate Grecian statues, Chinese vases, crystal chandeliers, a butler, a maid, a stone nymph in the hidden garden court . . . night curving into night with their vampire senses heightened to the beauty of the world, thirsting for the beauty of death--a constant stream of vulnerable strangers awaiting them below . . .

We see them joined against the envious, dangerous Lestat, embarking on a perilous search across Europe for others like themselves, desperate to discover the world they belong to, the ways of survival, to know what they are and why, where they came from, what their future can be . . .

We follow them across Austria and Transylvania, encountering their kind in forms beyond their wildest imagining . . . to Paris, where footsteps behind them, in exact rhythm with their own, steer them to the doors of the Théâtre des Vampires--the beautiful, lewd, and febrile mime theatre whose posters of penny-dreadful vampires at once mask and reveal the horror within . . . to their meeting with the eerily magnetic Armand, who brings them, at last, into intimacy with a whole brilliant and decadent society of vampires, an intimacy that becomes sudden terror when they are compelled to confront what they have feared and fled . . .

In its unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, Interview with the Vampire bears witness of a literary imagination of the first order.

©1976 Anne Rice (P)2011 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"[A] magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth - the education of the vampire.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Unrelentingly erotic...sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.” (Washington Post)

“If you surrender and go with her...you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.” (Boston Globe)

Loved it!

I've never really been very intrigued by vampire stories but I absolutely loved this! I loved the rich beautiful descriptions and the narration was executed flawlessly by Simon Vance.

Meh not my favorite.

The narrator is fabulous, though the story isn't one of my favorites. Louis is quite possibly one of the whiniest characters in literature. Looking forward to the next installments of The Vampire Chronicles, though.

Beautiful

I loved it. Anne Rice draws the story beautifully- and the narrator, Simon Vance, was a great pick to fill that role.

My first vampire book

Much better than twilight! However I do find it odd that all the vampires are gay, Louis, Lestat and Armand especially since in Queen of the Damned it says Armand & Louis never got to be together bc Armand joined up with the human boy that did the interview, Daniel! And later turns him into a vampire as Daniel becomes an alcohol and is brought to the point of dying from liver damage and probably cyrosis of the liver.

100% Delightful!

If you could sum up Interview with the Vampire in three words, what would they be?

Addictive, Beautiful & Amazing

What other book might you compare Interview with the Vampire to and why?

I have never read anything like this before, and I love Vampire stories/history etc.

What does Simon Vance bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Simon Vance gave me the extra "umph" to help me visualize the characters and story better than I would of reading it on my own.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book made me laugh, cry, go "aww." I was really able to connect and place myself in this story. I feel like Louis was telling me his story himself which was a plus for me.

Any additional comments?

I was able to become lost in this book, it was sooo addictive I couldn't stop listening. I am completly hooked on Anne Rice novels especially The Vampire Chronicles! I am excited to start The Vampire Lestat and finish the rest of The Vampire Chronicles. Oh and one last thing..as for the movie Interview With The Vampire, the 2 are rarely similar and I much more enjoyed the book than the movie.

Still a wonderfully written book

This is one of my favorites but it was hard to finish as the narrator is a bit monotoned

I love Anne rice's work

love finally getting through the whole book! I tried years ago with a real book and I'd always fall asleep . I love audibles! I love the movie and I love Anne Rice! Such a wonderful vampire universe

Listen even if you have already read the book!

Such an exquisite experience! The story is already incredible, the audiobook even more. I've read the book many times and was looking for a new way to enjoy it, it was just perfect.

Good not great

Thouget that it got a little tedious in the middle. Narrator was very good and overall I liked it. Doubt I will read rest of series.

voice actor was great could not be more happy.

Anne Rice write a wonderful story but the voice actor truly made this story come to life