6mo ago

That book makes so much more sense now.

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I didn't think you could modernize a whole book with one sentence, but here we are.

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I have no idea what book this is, but I already want to throttle the author from this bit alone.
- The Vampire Lestat. Either the second or third book in the Interview with the Vampire series. I never made it past the first page.
  
  That's actually the start of The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), fourth book in the series.
- She's dead, so it would take some logistics.

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Midway through there's a cutout coupon for bath products, apparently used as a bookmark.

I vaguely recalled there was a movie in the 90s about this and I couldn't remember if it was Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in it (it was) so I googled it. Interview with the Vampire. Also found out Kirsten Dunst played the child mentioned in that paragraph.
And apparently there's a show now running on Netflix based on this shit, because of course there is.
- The paragraph shown isn't from Interview with the Vampire. That story isnt told by Lestat.
  It's from Queen of the Damned. There was also a movie made from that. It stared Aaliyah and actually came out after her death.
  Edit: I stand corrected, it's from the book after QotD.
  
  Pretty sure that movie was terrible with an awesome soundtrack
  
  No, it's from The Vampire Lestat, the second book in the stupid series.
  
  Yeah I remember seeing Queen of the damned, but don't remember anything about it haha. It's been a long time and it's not a thing I'm all that into.
- Honestly, the original Interview With the Vampire novel isn't terrible. It's nothing profound, but it isn't terrible. This sequel, however, god-awful. I gave up after about four chapters.
  
  Was this the second? The vampire least? I remember liking it, but I was fourteen.
  
  Ann Rice made a dynasty out of her Lestat books and honestly they're better than most serials in the genre, but yeah still pretty mid. Interview With a Vampire definitely is the best.
  
  Yeah, I remember I enjoyed the movie well enough at the time. But it was before movies and TV shows got over-saturated with vampires.
  And if I'm going to watch a 90's vampire movie it's going to be Coppola's Dracula movie because it was iconic in it's weirdness.
- The show is on AMC (though I think they may have come to a sharing deal with Netflix) and it is so fucking good.
  I mean, yes, it is absolutely a bunch of gay vampire melodrama, so if that isn't your jam then don't bother, but if you're up for what that is, then the execution is absolutely brilliant.

... what an awful opening to a book without the annotation (which makes it a masterpiece). I feel less bad about my own writing now.

Any, uh...context for that "a child vampire with a woman's mind and an angel's face" bit? Or just the gross Lolita nonsense on its face?
- Pretty sure it's a reference to a character in the first book of the Interview with a Vampire series. Lestat's partner struggles with his remaining humanity, and can't allow a little girl to die in some historical fire in New Orleans, so he turns her. This also gives them both fulfillment in terms of a child to raise, until the child becomes a willful young adult stuck in a prepubescent body.
  Thankfully she's nobody's victim, she is a coldhearted little murder machine. On its face it doesn't read like creepy pedo material, but it is awkward as hell. Probably intentionally so.
  
  I think it's absolutely intentional. It feels like it's written by and targetted towards people who are viscerally repulsed by pedophilia.
  It's creating a situation that feels like absolute horror, and using that revulsion to help sell the horror. This centuries old mind, trapped in a child's body, unable to properly experience things like sexually and romance, continually on the outside of everything, treated like a child despite her age and abilities...
  If I remember correctly, she ends up being this extremely bitter murdering monstrosity, out of rage and spite over her existence. Despite her angelic, innocent face, she's the most evil of the lot. Partly because she doesn't even have the option of interacting with humans properly, and even most vampires treat her poorly.
  And all because a character had a moment of moral panic, of pity for a poor child. A desire to do the right thing.
  It's awful. And it's supposed to be.
- "Centuries old mind stuck in child vampire body is actually a killing machine and the whole situation is deeply uncomfortable for everyone involved" is the context. Not anime loli bullshit.
  
  That sure sounds like anime loli bullshit.
- Well, you do understand vampires are part of the horror genre, yeah?
  
  The others were actual answers so they're cool. But your response is almost a non-sequitur.
  Have you structured all the media you consume so that all themes stay consistent to a single genre? Ok, all the vampires go in horror, but do the werewolves go in horror too?
  You'll have to fight fantasy hard for that one.

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