Do you like Anne Rice's books ?

vampire, mayfair etc., ??

I tried reading Interview with the Vampire but couldn't make it in very far. I found it too dull, though that might have had to do with me being around pre to early teens at the time. I remember an extended paragraph about Lestat's coat buttons and that was where I abandoned it.

I realize now (and my aunt told me at the time, she's read the lot) that it was representative of an intense focus that vampires get, but it was still dull.

My mom has a number of her books but I think only read the Beauty series, which I heard was good and a pain in the neck to find. I'm not giving up the set we have just in case.

I haven't read any of her books although I've been tempted on and off since at least 1993. This was when I saw a documentary on Anne Rice which was filmed in and around New Orleans. I was especially taken with the techniques used to suggest "Vampire Vision" (that intense focus WeeTurtle refers to) in footage illustrating readings from Interview with the Vampire.

After failing to find it on YouTube, I was pleased to see that the cinematographer has uploaded it to Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/300169127

>3 WeeTurtle:

The Beauty series really isn't that tough to find; there are a gazillion copies at Abebooks.

>5 lilithcat: I actually didn't know about Abebooks until just recently. I haven't seen the books elsewhere though, compared to things like Interview.

Sorry, I do not. I have tried to read them.

>9 frahealee:

Please know that the film bears basically no resemblance to the book which is definitely not intended to be humorous.

>10 lilithcat: That's good to know. I know my mom has that book (I sorted her books a while back) but I've never looked at it since it didn't seem to be part of the supernatural stuff that I generally associate with Anne Rice. I wonder if that's from the popularity of Interview with the Vampire (and it's cast) at the time I saw it.

I saw another book by her called The Mummy but that could relate to Christianity if one goes with the idea that Ramses was the Pharaoh from the 10 commandments story. I remember comments coming up about that in one of my courses, in part because he would have been over 90 at the time, supposedly. I don't much about the biblical end of the event, just that that's a theory.

>14 frahealee:

Funny you should mention The Mummy films, I'm watching them as we speak. ;). I didn't bother to watch the remake. From what I know of Tom Cruise, I suspect it would be entirely too serious. Brandon Fraser is a doll!

I recall from class that Ramses II was unlikely to be the Biblical Pharaoh due to timelines, but I'm not sure about Ramses 1, or who would be within the accepted time frame. The ancient Egyptians had some dubious recording habits.

I think I knew about Feast of All Saints. I recognize the title. I'm still only familiar with the Vampire Chronicles, either because of the films or from my aunt filling in odd details from other books. Maybe I would ask. Don't really remember anymore.

Ok, sorry, but I had to jump into this one.

https://youtu.be/5xzDAgFrnf8

And here is another juicy tidbit that perhaps you didn't know about, I only knew because I saw Rutger Hauer in some of his early Dutch films...he and Daniel Day Lewis were my first two favorites to play Lestat:

"Anne Rice often speaks about her initial inspiration for how Lestat should appear on film. The one actor she mentions the most is Rutger Hauer, who, at the time of the book's writing, was the author's ideal for the character.

In 2015, she posted a birthday message to the actor with a photo of him taken when he was much younger with long, blonde hair. Rice wrote: "Thanks to Granny Goodwitch for telling us and providing this striking photograph of Hauer from years ago. You want to know what Lestat looks like to me? Look at this photograph. I didn't base Lestat's description on Hauer."

When Rice saw this image of a young Hauer, he embodied the image of Lestat she had seen in her mind."

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires.

Claudia: How avant-garde.

I cast Hauer as Marius in my head.

I tried years ago.

Ok, someone has to remind me which character Marius is. I do remember Armand fairly well, and Antonio Banderas played him well. Was Marius in the first book, or did he show up in the third book, The Queen of the Damned" (1988)?

Marius was the guy Lestat was searching for all over creation. He was a Roman and was supposed to know everything about the history of vampires. Turns out he kind of did since he had Akasha and Enkil in his possession. He wasn't young when he was made and Lestat was so I never saw Hauer as Lestat. But as Marius...oh sure.

Thank you, I really need to go back and re-read the first two books again.

I had no idea Anne Rice had died. Quite surprised I totally missed that and I have no idea why. RIP.

RIP.