Interview with the Vampire discussion

My favorite is Louis. How about you?

Armand was my favorite.

Lestat by a light year!

Lestat, no doubt...but I liked also Nicholas (even cried when he died)...but Lestat is the best.

marius by far

but in the book interview with a vampire I would have to say lastat he's just so evil in that book

Count Duckula.

Lestat

Definitely Lestat

Lestat, of course. Louis always seemed kind of whiny and mopey to me.

Joseph wrote: "Lestat, of course. Louis always seemed kind of whiny and mopey to me."

Me too Joseph!!

Armand.

You have to love Armand. He's just terribly messed up.

Lestat! He is everything a vampire should be.

Lestat obviously haha

Marius, he's not mopey, he's not evil, and he doesn't cry all the time or just start making out and being sexual with people for no reason as much as the others

marius is my fav to but he did like to molest armand if I remember correctly

Yeah, and the woman in blood and gold who's name I forget.
But unlike Lestat and Armand he's not all like "I stood there looking at them and they were so beautiful I just had to be weird and try get freaky with them" in a burst of excitement, then everything go back normal as if nothing happened a second later.
I think the story with him and Pandora was nice, and they had a good, non-weird relationship

I love Lestat and especially his relationship with Nicholas. My God, I suffered when they broke up! I threw away the book when I realized they will not get back together and hated Anne Rice with a vengeance! Needless to say, I then inched my way back, now reading Queen of the Damned.

Lestat. He was a vampire and he made no apologies for the things he did. (Although, I think he should have apologized for starting a band. Cliché.)

Lestat. For sure.

Eric Northman. Sorry, folks, but even though he is incredibly evil, he is so hot that I have to forgive him.

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who the fuck is eric northman isn't that a true blood character lol

Mitchell wrote: "Yeah, and the woman in blood and gold who's name I forget.
But unlike Lestat and Armand he's not all like "I stood there looking at them and they were so beautiful I just had to be weird and try g..."yeah Pandora and blood and gold are in my top three of the best books in the series I also loved queen of the damned and you're right about marius he's a far more interesting vampire then the rest in my opinion not to put the others down but I always loved reading about him

Benjamin wrote: "who the fuck is eric northman isn't that a true blood character lol"

Yes...which is a book.

Lestat and Gabrielle !!! even if Gabrielle (Lestat´s mother) was very short, she was an amzing character when she get release of all the human natural and social limitations, the savage nature of Gabrielle, the always adapatable but whimsical Lestat they reunite the characteristics of a perfect vampire, they can be cruel, but they have attachments, they embrace their new nature and explore it and take it to their limits.

Merrick Mayfair - the collision of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches. Hated how she sacrificed herself though to save Tarquin from his twin's spirit.

Khayman... The others I don't remember very well

Lestat

prince lestat released on oct 28

Louis

Merrick, I liked her.

Love Lestat's sense of humor in The Tale of the Body Thief! That was a new side of him that I didn't see before. Now I love him even more.

Armand. I love his simplicity and innocence, and that combined with his fascination with everything about life and his wealth of knowledge makes him one of the most interesting characters.

Armand.
He's a stand out in the first couple of books, despite being a minor sort of character. Then I disliked him after I read his book (that's more of Rice's fault, really). I still really like him after all.

Also Lestat, that is a given.

Lestat. How not?

Maharet. Pandora. Marius.

I'd love to read Mael's story.

I've noticed that it doesn't matter that the characters are vampires, what draws me to them are qualities they could all have as human beings. To me, that's the real magic in Rice's characters. They're rich and real and we form connections with them.

I loved Lestat in the first 4 books, but later he started to annoy me. I also liked Armand and Marius a lot. Now, with Prince Lestat coming out in a few month, I wonder what Anne will do with the characters in this book..

Armand.

Pandora is my favourite vampire. Maharet a close second.

Gabrielle for sure. Marius and Pandora. But I always had a soft spot for Khayman too ...

KInd of surprising that no one's mentioned Claudia yet.

Renee wrote: "KInd of surprising that no one's mentioned Claudia yet."

I have to admit that I didn't like her at all when I read the books as a teenager. I just saw her as an annoying, spoiled brat. Thinking about her years later, I felt more sympathy for her, but mostly pity. An adult stuck in the body of a child - she might be the most tragic character of the whole series!
I do wonder if she would still annoy me if I re-read the books or if she'd make it into the top list of my favourites!

Lestat. . . . no contest at all.

Claudia. I think Louis really does wallow, and it gets old. Go stand in the sunlight, anything, but don't be a miserable old hypocrite, walking contradiction. I'm sure at some point I didn't feel that way, but after reading the books so many times, and growing-up my opinion has come full circle. (I do harbor some degree of affection for Louis, I think I own every movie the books mention him watching, but I see something familiar in him unto myself/a certain other family member that bugs me. Anyway, in one aspect, he is OF Anne, and emotionally she seems very honest so I cannot abhor him. He's more like a whiny little pet.)
Back to Claudia. I first identified with her for several reasons, but initially her physical age. I started with Cry to Heaven at age 11 and moved onto the A.N. Roquelaure penname erotica before the Vampire series. Then I made the mistake of gifting a copy of Vittorio the Vampire to my then 12 yr old cousin, who promptly devoured it in secret and later confessed it gave him night terrors and led to his own Anne Rice obsession lol(Yes, Ye Concerned Ones, I now realize it was an error in judgement to give such a book to a sheltered kid, - err, any kid, now that I'm thinking of it and recalling the opening details alone- after all, this was WAY before Suzanne Collins recycled her killed-off innocent child cast into murderous-mutant-zombie-dogs in a YA novel, but as a teen it really seemed like no big deal).

Oh, Maharet is brilliant and the main ones stand without need for further inflation of their endowed characters ;) and love them for it.

Before, when I was young and first read the book I felt like Claudia, in a way, (yes, just like that, I was a murderous, fiendish woman trapped in the body of a child... ) but really in the way of an intelligent young girl who feels as if she is more than meets the eye and is frustrated and cynical and gleefully egotistical in the way that only a child can be.
Actually, I feel for Claudia now, as Madeleine might have. Re-reading after I had my son, I realized, (as with so many things taking the emotional role of motherhood) my view of her was altered. When I read that Anne Rice began writing Claudia as a resurrection and exorcism of emotion,(my words, not hers)directly drawn from a very real well of trauma,it made perfect sense, (many of her fans will know that her daughter passed away at age five). I think it is amazing she was able to share that entire birth with the world and all that followed was a result of it. So Claudia has to be my favorite; she is the emotional center from which all the other vampires were actually born, and to say that was no easy birth would be an understatement.

Armand. Misunderstood, eternally confused, forever frozen as an abused and misbehaving teenager.

Lestat forever & always! :)

More and more, I can identify with Gabrielle.

Probably Courtney Love...