Hey, so this weekend I decided to watch all my favourite movies. Staring with the cult classic inspired by Anne Rice hugely popular Vampire Chronicles series Queen of the Damned. Its safe to say that i never got to the other movies on my list, and have now seen it three times in three days.The movies and most of the books follow the eternal life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat is a bold, enthusiastic vampire with a taste for defiance, which earned him the nickname the brat prince.
In Queen of the Damned, Lestat awakes from 100 years of rest to find that the world has transformed from the aristocratic society of the 1800's to the Gothic punk clad years of the 90's. He becomes a rock star in a goth punk band. That conquers the world of music and pop culture. But Lestat's music has awaken an old friend. Akasha the queen of all who are damned awakes from 4000 years of sleep to plunge the world back in to darkness and suck the blood from every living thing, mortal and immortal. Lestat becomes her companion that must choose between ruling over a kingdom of corpses by akasha's side or protecting the lives of the people he will inevitable kill later.
I personally love these books. Anne Rice is a genius that has written not just the best fantasy series of all time, but one of the best series of all time. (Stephenie Meyer eat your heart out.) With timeless characters and a riveting plot line its hard to not love these fantastic literary gems.
The novels themselves are works of art, an intertwining complex story of love, betrayal, loneliness and self realization. Characters that have an eternity to find themselves and realize what they have become as a result of vampirism.
Unfortunately for all of us, Anne Rice herself found spirituality about 6 years ago, and has refused to write anymore dark demonic novels about vam
pires and her other hugely popular series the Mayfair Witches because they violate her religious beliefs.But fortunately, we avid Rice fans still have her collection of works prior to 2003.
To close, these are wonderful books. They are targeted to an older reading audience, so definitely not for 12 year old twilight fans, but for teens they are perfect. If you are ever looking for an interesting read, try a copy of Interview with the vampire( first book of the series).
If you have ever read any of the novels, i would love to hear your opinion.
Damn religion.
ReplyDeleteIt ruins all the nice things. :(
But anyhow, these books are all classic, I've read the first one but that was ages ago, I probably should read the others as they are yummy.
I love how you set this up, you gave us some background info on the books and really built the suspense up but didn't give away any spoilers, so it makes us want to read the book just to find out what ends up happening! Very effective.
"The movies and most of the books follow the eternal life of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat is a bold, enthusiastic vampire with a taste for defiance, which earned him the nickname the brat prince."
I like the wording you use there :) It was very cool.
Maybe try finishing off the blog with a more impactful statement of some sort though? Finishing off this review with a little more oomph would make it even more fantastic :)
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ReplyDeleteGreat post. The structure of this is great, it's amazing how much interesting a piece of writing is when complimented with some pictures.
ReplyDeleteIntriguing movie...i'm not sure if i'm all for that style, but you still made it seem very interesting. So I appreciate it, as opposed to go ' meh whatevs' :)
I suggest you do more reviews, you seem to do a good job at making things appeal to people who don't even like that style
note to Ms.Hathaway, i tried post all of these comments earlier today, and when I came back, they post due to some 'error' I'll show you the error tomorrow in class.