Vampires: Scary Monsters? Or Super Creeps?

This section is reserved for Interview with a Vampire. I have not gotten around to reading it yet.

Update: Finished! Finally.

Lots of drama, for one. I detected that homoeroticism everyone was mentioning. Anyways, like anything I read I focus deeply on both character and plot and both elements provided and provided well.

I most admired the main character, Louis, though I found his relationship with Claudia to be rather strange. They are like father and daughter, and yet at the same time their relationship nearly reaches the level of 'lovers' without the actual love-making. Still, aside from that queer relation, Louis was a character that was obviously made to relate to the reader. He thinks most human-like of all the vampires, even after years roll by. Unlike Lestat, he does not take to feeding off of people easily at first and it never quite becomes an easy task later on.

Yet I felt bad for Lestat, despite him being the reason why everyone's lives went to crap. He obviously had his own demons to contend with; he pushed everyone away yet he could not bear being alone. He's that sort of character you wish he simply died by a happy accident but because he's still alive every single time you think he died, you start wanting him to die by any means necessary. You might like him, but he's obviously getting in the way of things and you want him to stop.

They {and I mean Claudia and Louis} get away from him long enough to get on a boat. This is what I don't understand though. They don't get caught. I can't buy the bull that they fed off of rats and the occasional human without arousing suspicion. No one even thought people could be getting poisoned? No one wondered why the frail little girl wasn't among the first to die when a fever's about?

Needless to say, I'm one of those people that can't just take some ambiguous explanation that doesn't fully answer my questions as an answer {which would explain my extreme frustration watching a show like Lost}. I get over it, but in the end it takes away from the experience of being drawn into Rice's world.

I also did see all that religious contemplation we talked about. This woman was obviously Catholic or raised Catholic before she started to slip into doubts and began writing pornos and books about vampires questioning their existence. I can tell that Louis my just be that one character that is a reflection of herself. Claudia is sort of that alter-ego that's not afraid to challenge. Lestat is that inner contempt and fear of hers. Something like all that; I'm no psychologist or psychoanalyst or whatever.

The book was an interesting read, but I liked the movie more {and I can't believe I'm saying that}. I have a hard time getting into the story when it's being told in third-third person. In the movie, you see the interviewer once in a great while. In the story, he's interrupting Louis every other minute. I know that the movie may not convey enough intimacy between the boy and the vampire, but isn't there enough intimacy in this story already? On a scale of 1-10, this book still rates rather high. I'd give it an 8.5. It held my interest, but I'm not all that into romance and if I want to read something scary, I certainly wouldn't be this. I don't care for the issues it brings up such as 'does God/Satan really exist?' and 'am I a monster because I eat people?' because the story itself just seems like an account by some tired old vampire who's trying to scare some thought into some silly little interviewer man.

Going to check AWSC from the library, if it's there. Fortunately I recently read The Hobbit, so I'll probably just watched the animated movie to recap before I type up a review for that.

-Peace out.