6mo ago

That book makes so much more sense now.

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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.
  
  No, it's from The Vampire Lestat, the second book in the stupid series.
  
  I read the series as far as it went back then when I was a teen and even then I oupd notice the quality diving deeper and deeper with each book
  
  It's not.
  David Talbot isn't introduced until Queen of the Damned
  Also, The Vampire Lestat starts out in France in the 1700s.
  In the winter of my twenty-first year, I went out alone on horseback to kill a pack of wolves.
  This was on my father's land in the Auvergne in France, and these were the last decades before the French Revolution.
  
  Pretty sure that movie was terrible with an awesome soundtrack
  
  Late 90s early 00s were the wild fuckin west of electronica and awesome cross-genre like r&b and hardcore. The movie is terrible, but in a good way. The soundtrack does indeed slam.
  
  Correct
  
  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.
  
  Yes, The Vampire Lestat. It was popular when I was in high school too, but I didn't read it until my 20s and that little added pencil preface is incredibly accurate.
  The novel starts with him being awakened from his vampiric slumber by hearing rock music and he joins a band. I wish I was making that up. Thankfully it then went into a flashback, but it was still not worth continuing to read such nonsense.
  
  I made it all the way to The Vampire Armand before I gave up. They just continuously got worse.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- 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.

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