Tale of the Body Thief
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739312316 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 101 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lestat is alone. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned. Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of swee
If you love reading "Lestat's" work, worth a read I read some reviews before I downloaded this, and they are mixed I'm glad I read some of the bad reviews, however, because I really didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. I'm also glad to have read reviews that didn't spoil anything for me plotwise. In fact, something one of the negative reviews said had me thinking the plot was about Lestat stealing bodies. So here I am, thinking Lestat is going to murder victims and pile them up in a basement. If you love good books read Anne Rice! Sly Ricketson If you love good books read Anne Rice!Has been my favorite author since Jr High, and I have always been quite the bibliophile (now in my 30s). I have my 7th grade daughter reading these books now. They are transforming, rich, educational, and complex. I have more respect for Anne Rice then any other fiction writer rivaled only by Daniel Quinn, possibly. Her characters and dialogues are so well written that I would easily believe that she listened to t. One of the less satisfying installments of the Vampire Chronicles . When I first read The Tale of the Body Thief, I was thoroughly disappointed. After the grand, epic themes of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, t seemed such a silly, tawdry little story. Having re-read it many times since then, I have come to appreciate the better aspects of the story, including the deeper thinking about the nature of incarnation (which feeds into the 5th installment, as I recall) but it still is one of the less satisfyi