This book is dark, creepy, weird, and trashy - a great summer backyard read! *but* The story would have been way cooler if the author had just laid it out as a story instead of as an interview-style dictation. I'm not even really sure how to explain what it was that bothered me except that I kept having to go back to see who was doing the talking now, and what century we were in. And did I mention there were no chapters? There were barely even paragraph breaks; and I don't have that kind of stamina. I am one of those readers who needs to come up for air sooner than every 100 pages, especially with a creepy book like this. Ehn, petty details perhaps, but enough to tamper with my reading buzz.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
This book is dark, creepy, weird, and trashy - a great summer backyard read! *but* The story would have been way cooler if the author had just laid it out as a story instead of as an interview-style dictation. I'm not even really sure how to explain what it was that bothered me except that I kept having to go back to see who was doing the talking now, and what century we were in. And did I mention there were no chapters? There were barely even paragraph breaks; and I don't have that kind of stamina. I am one of those readers who needs to come up for air sooner than every 100 pages, especially with a creepy book like this. Ehn, petty details perhaps, but enough to tamper with my reading buzz.
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It has been so long since I read this book that I didn't even remember the format! Wow, I just counted and it's been fourteen years. I do remember that I loved the series at the time I read it though.
This is a series that I probably would have loved in my youth right alongside my Steven King collection.
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