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Can a book be disappointing if I expected not to like it Or, rather, can I be disappointed in it

Yep,

This was seriously boring, And repetitive. And boringly repetitive. And unexciting and also it rehashed the same things over and over, And over. Did I mention it was boring Because it was, Even more than I expected, At aboutpages in, I was like "OK, this isn't terrible, that's good, " And then It just stayed right there, At "Not Terrible" level. Nothing interesting happened, nothing exciting, nothing to make me want to find out what happens, I finished this simply because I was knitting stuff and running errands, and I might as well listen to something while I did that, but mostly I just zoned out, especially towards the end.
Impressive endorsement, eh

So, OK, here's the book, Cliffs Notes version:
There is a vampire giving an interview to a mortal "boy", telling his life story.
By the way, aside from the novelty of finding out that there ARE actually vampires, I have no idea why this boy sat all night listening to this vampire.
He seemed interested but by what Anyway, so, this vampire tells his life or undead story: A vampire met him, coveted his property, turned him, moved in, manipulated him and was a general, all around jerkface.
Our narrator vamp, Louis, whines a lot, Gets all existentialy a lot, Whines some more about existential stuff, Questions everything: Where do I come from What is my purpose Why do we need to kill to feed Who made vampires God Satan Bob the Builder Are there more of us Why is killing PEOPLE so much awesomer than killing animals Why is killing some people read: pretty ones awesomer still than killing some other read: not pretty ones people Why do I ask so many questions

OK, I threw that last one in there.
He should have asked it, though, I mean holy crap on a stick, he's got The Life: he's rich, and smart about investing so will likely remain that way, handsome, and immortal, which all amounts to him being able to do whatever the hell he wants to for as long as he wants to.
Yet all he does is WHINE and ponder the meaning of life, . . or undeath. Because, you know, humans have it all figured out, /snark.

Anyway, plot summary continued:
Lestat continues being a jerk, and adds ard to their happy family, a child, Who will remain a child forever and ever and ever, . . except in her mind. Oh the bitterness and anger and existentialism and questions, . . They never end!! The two turnees don't like Lestat because he's a jerkface, remember and so they plot their method of getting him out of the way and going on their merry way to find their own answers.
They travel around and find zombie vampires, ask some more questions about them, . . travel more, and then they find more vampires! Wooo! Finally, something like progress! Only, . . these vampires are also boring fucking paper wastes, They are all existentialy too, only their subject of choice is technically death rather than existence, So, again, a rehash of What It All Means, . . You get the point by now, right I mean MY point, because I still don't think the book has one,

Frank Muller reading the audio helped me to get through this, Anne Rice has diarrhea of the pen when it comes to detail, and her pen only writes in one color: Purple,

Her purple pen has put me off of quite a few of her other books, and would have put me off this one too, had I not been able to find something shiny and zone out for a goodminutes at a time while she described a door, or moon reflection on the water, or the texture of the smell of velvet or some such.
Shiny thing, you saved my sanity, Thank you.

Anyway I don't know why I continue to attempt Anne Rice, I think it's because so many people love her books, and there are so many of them, that I rationalize that the next one will probably be better.
Except no. It's not. Or maybe it's just ME, and I just don't like her, Six of one, half a dozen of the other, I think this will be my last attempt though, At some point, one just has to admit defeat and move on,

I've finished two of Rice's books, ever, out of a combinedoror so attempts, if I remember correctly, and I didn't like either of them.
Fail.

Halloween October:Oh God, I'm going to have to do this, Oh well, here I go, Hmm he looks a bit fierce,

"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, "

Silence erm now what am I supposed to say oh yes

"I confess to God almighty, to blessed Mary, ever Virgin, to all the Saints, and to you Father, that I have sinned very much in thought, word, deed and omission, by my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault.
Especially since my last confession which was, approximatelyyears and several months ago, Er. Hmm. I accuse myself of the following sins, "

"Go on my son, "

Okay, here goes,

"In the lastyears I have readtrue crime books, you know, those sleazy penny dreadfuls about serial killers and all of that, and I have read umpteen books about pop music, but I have not read any Tolstoy, Toni Morrison or Balzac, no Stendahl, no Kafka no Thomas Pynchon.
. . zero Proust are you getting the drift here"

Good Christ, thinks the priest, it's one of those, I wouldn't have thought it to look at the fellow, But he's one all right,

"No Toni Morrison, are you sure my son"

"None at all, father, I even read Interview with the Vampire, but I didn't read Beloved or the Song of Solomon or Gilead or Middlemarch or The Magic Mountain or any of that stuff.
"

"Yet you know the titles, "

"Oh yes, I know the titles, father, That's all I know. Just the titles. "

"Go on then, "

"Well also I think Michael Haneke movies are dull and repetitive, And is dreadful and I'd rather throw myself off a cliff than sit through anything by Eisenstein, Godard or Fellini, And I realise throwing yourself off a cliff is another sin, "

"Well you're right about that, You'd better come clean about the rest of it too, I suppose, "

"Right. Yes. Well. "

Silence.

"This is quite difficult, father, Okay. I never listened to Radiohead, "

The priest is visibly shocked,

"You never listened to Radiohead The world's greatest band whose OK Computer is poised to wrest the title of all time best rock album from the dead hands of the shibboleths of the sixties for ever"

"Yes Father, that Radiohead.
"

"You never even heard them At all"

"No Father, For these and all my other sins that I cannot now remember, I am truly sorry, firmly resolve not to sin again and humbly ask pardon of God, and of you, Father, counsel, penance and absolution".


"Well, I've heard some things, as you do, when you're a priest, I can tell you, But this. Well, at the very least, you must read three Toni Morrisons, go and buy AND listen to OK Computer AND Kid A, and buy AND view the boxed set of Werner Herzog which is on Amazon for a reasonable price.
And don't leave it anotheryears again, "

"O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because of Your just punishments, I firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin.
"

"Out you go then, skedaddle, "

Whew, that was awful, But it had to be done, Fancy mentioning Interview with the Vampire, I could have said something else, like Jack Kerouac, that's bad enough, Oh the shame. Well, he's probably heard worse, Oh well. Hmm, Radiohead can't be that bad, can they It's hard to admit that a movie with Tom Cruise in it could actually be less boring than a book.

But there you go,
I read this when I was a teen, and I had a much higher tolerance for meandering bullshit plots than I do now, so my review was originallystars.
However, on reflection
Yeah. This was pretty much crap,
Sorry if this offends any Rice fanatics,
Hmmm. No, on reflection I really don't care who it offends, Poor vampires. Such a bad press over the years what with all the blood sucking, neck snapping and general ravaging of virgins, maidens and anyone with a taste for Gothicstyle bedroom furniture and an open window.


Still, now that Edward Cullen and his panfaced fan base of moody teens have infiltrated popular culture, replacing the stereotypical images of pale, foppish young men in lacy cuffs and brocaded velvet jackets with a utilitarian GapStyle wardrobe of urban wear and a slightly sulky look, we seem to be moving further away from the more traditional imagery.
That said, RPatz see I know the lingo, I listen to the kids appears to be dead from the eyeballs down in many scenes and is probably as wooden as the stake which should be used to pin him back into his eternal resting place, so not all elements of the vampire legend have been entirely done away with.


Interview with the Vampire was almost solely responsible see Lost Boys for its partner in crime for spawning the epidemic known as the great vampire obsession of the lateth century or at the very least a huge resurgence in the interest in vampire myth and lore.
Ok, ok Bram Stoker deserves a big old nod for originally bringing us the whole idea of winged blood suckers who like nothing more than a snooze in a wooden box and a brisk sea journey to the northeast coast of England.
Or if you like we can go a bit further back and point the sharp end of the stake at Sheridan Le Fanu for his sapphic vampires which featured in his collection of short stories "In a Glass Darkly".
Whoever you'd like to blame for it, you have to admit they were onto a good wheeze, The romance of immortality fuelled by the gojuice of another human being it goes down easier if you just think of it as a sort of clotted SlimFast meal seems to have had a weirdly kinky appeal which has garnered it a fan base of millions.
Lets break it down and see what there really is to like about being a vampire,

Eternal life obviously gets a big tick but then it does depend who you get stuck with, If you end like Louis, locked in a bitter battle of wills with the sadistic Lestat, then eternity is going to seem like, well, an eternity.

Drinking blood readily available, free therefore credit crunch chic, nutritious and virtually calorie free, It's simple: Live fast, die young, drink blood and have a good looking and upwardly mobile corpse, WARNING: don't try this at home this review is not suggesting that a diet of blood will ever do you any favours, nor is it condoning "borrowing" the blood of people who are not you.
Alternatively, forever is a long time to go without a solid meal and you know you'll eventually start complaining that dinner always tastes the same.


Flight/ surprisingly speedy turns of movement being super fast is a handy skill to have if you need to face the pacey modern lifestyle of thest century.
Queue jumping, being first in the door at the Harvey Nichols January Sales and avoiding having to sit in economy class during flights are all things which would improve my life.


Sleeping in a coffin compact and bijoux if you live in a tiny inner city apartment where you're kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom are all practically the same room.
Why not drape your coffin with an attractive throw and turn it into a table for nighttime use On the downside no one ever said eternal rest would be a comfortable one.


Interview with the Vampire takes itself pretty seriously a lot more seriously than this review, and despite the fact Louis' hand wringing and tortured immortal soul act did start to grate on me towards the end, overall I enjoyed this and was able to stop raising my eye brows long enough to appreciate the detail and originality of the story.
Fangs for the great story Anne! I am going to confess that I didn't read this book until, after I'd seen the movie, I couldn't handle horror movies or scary books at the time, but Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and a surprisingly good Tom Cruise really got my attention.

Now I'm a bona fide fan, I'm working toward reading everything Rice has written, and now I enjoy many other authors who write about vampires,
It wasn't just that the vampire dudes were soooo totally hot in the movie, As is usually the case, the book turned out to be even better, Rice's characters are among the most compelling ever created in fiction, Louis with his constant moral conflicts and philosophical musings, Lestat with his naughty Bad Boy Bloodsucking Attitude and sarcasm which Tom Cruise did really well in the film.
. though Lestat is definitely supposed to be taller!, Claudia with her keen intelligence and relentless anger at having been trapped for eternity in a child's body, Armand for being. . at this stage of the series anyway, . . such a deep, dark, sexy enigma, Rice was the first author to make her vampires complex enough to keep my attention and, more importantly, make me actually LIKE them as they go around ripping people's throats out.


My favorite character however, has got to be the City of New Orleans, the true star of this show, I'm sure I'm nowhere near the first reader who has been inspired by Rice's books to visit this special, unique city and wander through the French Quarter and the Garden District.
Rice knows and loves her city, and that feeling is infectious, I'm a sucker for welldeveloped characters, but in this book and the rest of Rice's work, it's the setting that draws me in most of all.


The indelible image of Antonio almost kissing Brad doesn't hurt either I really enjoyed this book, Read it a while ago, Thought the film was very good, Not sure whether it was as good as the book or not, It is very similar to The Picture Of Dorian Grey, In both books the main character had a wealth of knowledge and experience, They rub shoulders with the more, privileged people,

Is vampirism real I once watched a documentary video fake news And in the
film a lab scientist had a series of clear tanks containing mice.
Some pregnant mice, some new born mice and another containing an old mouse, The hairs on its chin were grey so I guess he was getting old, I think mice only live for about two years so this one was probably at least two summers old, Anyhow I digress, this gets nasty now, The video goes into a time lapse, The lab assistant was taking baby mice from the mother and feeding them to the old mouse, The video is filmed over a couple of weeks and condensed to a few minutes on the time lapse, Now, the old mouse is getting younger! Wtf! The old mouse, eating the pure clean flesh of

new born mice, gets younger, His greying chin hair is now a lovely golden brown and he is flitting about his environment like a teenager, I don't know whether this video is real or fake, Was the mouse swapped with a younger one Who knows If it is fake it is quite, . . elaborate. So I ask again, is vampirism real

If it is real then the Race of the Vampire would be far older than humanity.
That means they would Predate humanity, So explains why Vampires predate, as in hunt, feed off, suck the blood of humans, So does Predate mean what is says, before Or, hunt, stalk, eat Or are the two meanings the same Was the Tiger here before the deer Was the wolf here before the sheep As humans, with our intellect, we as a race don't really have a predator these days.
We create things to protect us, So are we the top of the food chain Do we, as in all nature, have a predator For every right there is a left and every up there is a down.
Are we the most intelligent beings on this planet Are there many races Do they hide in the shadows What is folklore compared to mainstream Why is Romania called Rome Mania Legend of Dracuul.
Vlad the Impaler. A madman! Was ancient Romania, Visigoths Gothic Named so because it became a Roman outpost Rome occupied Egypt, Romany, curses and casting spells, The mystics of Egypt did too, I am forever playing Devils Advocate, too many questions and not enough answers,

Let's take the Alfa Romeo car manufacturer, I recently learned it is owned by the Vatican, Maybe. Who knows We all know that the Vatican is a state within a state, Like the city of London, where all the oligarchy live, Or the District Of Colombia, So, the Vatican probably owns the Alfa Romeo car company, secretly it would appear,

The esoteric world communicate via logos, Sigils, symbols, icons etc. A picture spells a thousand words, . . only to those who can decipher them, Words are only for the masses, They are swords.

Now let's look at the Alfa Romeo badge, I am not going to copy and paste one in for fear of copy right strike, One will have to look for themselves however, I can describe it, Here goes:

A circle within a circle, The outer circle, enveloping around, spells the words Alfa Romeo, To the left of the inner circle is the Red Cross of St, George. To the right is a dragon, On the dragon's head is a Crown, A forked tongue protruding from the dragons mouth, How absurd.

Let's break this down,

A circle within a circle, A wheel within a wheel, Hidden. Esoteric. Occultic.
The outer circle contains the word "Alfa" top, supreme, dominance, Also the word Rome. It envelopes the inner circle, So Rome is top dog,

To left of the inner circle is the St, George Flag. A red cross. England. Did St. George not slay the dragon

To the right of the flag is a Dragon,

On top of its head is a Crown, Royalty.

What appears to be a forked tongue protruding from its maw, If one turns the logodegrees one can clearly see it is not a tongue at all, . . it is a human! So the Dragon has a Crown on its head and a human hanging out of its mouth, How absurd. It's only a company logo right

So according to this badge, Rome is top dog and there would be no Royalty if not for Holy Roman Empire, The Royals are actually dragons, Lol! And they eat humans, really David Icke must be cringing, Lol! It is so absurd, it is crazy,

What is true is that some time ago Prince Charles visited Romania and whilst walking around some Gothic temples with the Romanian leader he turned and said.
With a chuckle, "You do realise ofcourse that I am a direct descendant of Vlad The Impaler", Or words to that effect, I remember watching it on a mainstream news channel, Is Prince Charles the Prince Of Wales I think he is, Does the Welsh flag have a Red Dragon on it I believe it does, Is Prince Charles a direct descendant of Vlad The Impaler He thinks he is, SaxeCoburgGotha. Interesting to know that Windsor is not the real name of the British Royals, Romania. Rome. Egypt. Britain. Celtic. Druids. Mysticism. The Vatican. Royal Bloodlines. The elites believe it.

Incidentally the Visigoths had a distinctive red shield and a Criss Sword, I read some where that the name Rothschild means Red Shield,

Coincidence I hope I am not hung drawn and quartered, :

I used to watch Penny Dreadful on TV and really thought it was a great show, Penny Dreadfuls were small comic book magazines from the Victorian era, Basically like fantasy and folklore, In the TV show the main plot was vampirism, In the show the protagonists find an Alpha Vampire, an original, The creature has an autopsy, The skin is scaly and covered in hieroglyphs, Egyptian hieroglyphs. Its fangs are akin to a serpent, Hmm! I thought it was a very interesting concept, Dorian Grey also featured heavily in the show, as did SpringHeeled Jack, The show was subsequently scrapped, I wonder why I wonder a lot, When an alpha bites it infects, A made vampire in folklore is actually infected, not born a vampire, so when it rises from the dead it could almost be considered a Zombie.
It is rumoured that archeologists have unearthed many plague pits across Europe and UK and in those mass graves the corpses were beheaded and had punctures to the chest area.
I once read an article about this very subject, The piece outlined that indeed during the middle ages and before this was quite frequently practiced, Was it merely superstition I certainty never learned this at school, it was not in the curriculum, I will research this subject more,


Halloween, it is near

Fun, dressing up, people are queer

Celebrating and partying, reverie in darkness, entice

Hollywood, sins, orgies and sacrifice

Moloch, possession, and black eyes, such folly

Misery, pain, pleasure, and melancholy

Perversion, casting couch, a tug of the hair

Demons, persuasive, cold crispy air

Magicians, black mirrors, visions projected

Child actors, extortion, black mail, not protected

A cabal, a circle, a ring, a brotherhood

Preying on youth, in every neighbourhood

Monsters, bogey men, moonlight, and tears

Vampirism, blood thirst, thousands of years

Druidism, skull and bones, esoteric teaching

Technology,G, A net, A web, ever reaching
By Leo

leo'sesotericprose
Adrenochrome.