[ The Good Vampire Books ] Anne Rice Novels
 

Alright, I'm getting back into the vampire novels from Anne Rice, and I'd like some help. First of all, I know it goes

Interview with a Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned

But I don't know what it goes to after that. I've seen that it goes up to six..but I'm not sure. Any help would be appriciated!

They go (so far as I can tell through research):

1. Interview With the Vampire
2. The Vampire Lestat
3. Queen of the Damned
4. The Tale of the Body Thief
5. Memnoch the Devil
6. The Vampire Armand
7. Merrick
8. Blood and Gold
9. Blackwood Farm
10. Blood Canticle

Wow. I never knew that there were so many books in that series before I looked it up. Da-aaaaannnnng.

Haha, wow, there are a lot. O_O And they're all pretty hefty books, too. I've got a lot of reading to get through..

Hmm, indeed you do, lol. I just looked at Wikipedia and it seems that there are two more books that are connected with the Vampire Chronicles but not necessarily a part of them. They are called the "Tales of the Vampires" and they go by the names:

-Pandora
-(and) Vittorio the Vampire

Much luck to you, my friend, reading all of these things.

Haha, thank you!

I'll have so much to battle through. XD;;

I loved, loved , LOVED Queen of the Damned. The movie was horrible compared to it and not even accurate. They aren't really a series, but I suggest you read them in order because if you don't, some of the back history will get confusing. I also loved Blackwood Farm, though it's a lot of childhood history and can be a bit slow and actually deals very little with the vampire aspect of the character. As to Armand...he is and always will be my favorite of all Rice's vampires.

I have to say, even not reading his book, I am a super-fan of Lestat. Armand kind of angers me, but...I'm starting to like Marius quite a lot, as well. :3

...I started reading Interview with a Vampire...it was okay...but I've read better books. I'm just not a fan of her style I guess. The book just bugged me I guess. If you're a fan of her stuff, more power to you. I'm just not one of those people who completely fangirls over her work.

Anne Rice is by far my favorite author I love the way she brought the vampires to life. I read my first novel by her when I was 16 after I saw the movie Interveiw with the Vampire after that I was hooked and I have read everyone of the vampire chronicals she has written and also a few of her other books. Queen of the Damned was an amazing book but I was so unhappy with the movie it was done all wrong and if done right it would of been beautiful. They skip right over The Vampire Lestat and mess the whole story up. Also I was sad to hear that she wasn't going to be writing anymore vampire chronicals but I still have hope.

I loved the series. It was my first vampire book series and loved how it was. My favorite characters are Lestat and Marius. I have almost all of the books but mainly have the ones that I love.

I love Anne rice's novels,
The style, the erotica, everything.

I think my favourite character is Louis,
just because he seems innocent and pathetic, somehow.

Anne Rice is awesome! Well, I mean, she's an awesome author.

She actually writes pretty decent vampire novels. Okay, better than "pretty decent."

I'm waiting for Interview with a Vampire to come up on TV so I can compare. I mean, I'm pretty sure I won't be yelling at the TV for anything majorly different... I hope.

My favorite in the series has got to be The Vampire Lestat. Such a great character. Queen of the Damned has some good information in it about the lineage of everything...stay CLEAR of the movie though...it was total shit.

Oh! She also did the Erotic Princess series that my sister said was amazing and incredibly dark. Haven't had a chance to pick them up though.

I love Vampire Chronicles, and I don't even like vampires. But these books are just amazing. I love Lestat, he's so twisted and disturbed but at the same time he just pwns everyone. I've converted like...several Twilight fans by referring them to Anne's books, lol. I'm like..."You wanna read about REAL vampires? Here," [insertaction]. "Omg, this is so amazing!" At which point, I'd whip out a cheshire cat-esque grin.

I love the Vampire Chronicles books. XD I started reading them back in high school. XD (Now I have almost all her books as ebooks, except the princess ones, which I tried and didn't really care for.)

I don't really have a favorite character from the series, though it's a toss-up between Lestat and Marius. XD

And I agree that the movie Queen of the Damned didn't follow along the main story in the book, but it wasn't a bad movie, if you didn't read the book first. XD

Reading the book pretty much ruined Queen of the Damned for me. Trying to combine The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned was just too much material to cut down. The movie was good though, Stewert Townsends Lestat was far superior to Tom Cruise.

Anne Rice was and still is one of all time favourite authors. Her work really surpasses everyone that even attempts to write about vampires and such. However, it is very sad that there will be no more Vampire Chronicles :(

My favourite character would be Louis, I love his emotions and human-esque qualities, he's just so beautiful...and I want to pet him ^^''

I really liked Interview with the Vampire (the movie) and I thought Tom Cruise did a wonderful job of Lestat. But I also really loved The Queen of the Damned and Jonathon Davis' amazing job of the songs and score *drools*. However, with that movie, you really have to watch it as something totally separate to the book because there would be no way they could actually do that story/s justice.

It is a series of books, about real vampires ^^ very different to Twilight or anything like that, these books are definitely more suited for those with adult tastes.
The first book, The Interview with the Vampire (my favourite), is centered around Louis, a 200 year old vampire who despises his vampiric nature and longs to be human again. He gets a "boy" to record him telling his life story...
It is very good, filled with violence, sadness, love, eroticism and much much more. It is an awesome series for anyone who doesn't want fluff filled vampire romance.
The series goes as follows:

1.The Interview with the Vampire
2. The Vampire Lestat
3. The Queen of the Damned
4. The Tale of the Body Thief
5. Memnoch the Devil
6. The Vampire Armand
7. Merrick
8. Blood and Gold
9. Blackwood Farm
10. Blood Canticle

I would also recommend watching the movie 'The Interview with the Vampire' if you like the book, Brad Pitt as Louis *drool* and Tom Cruise does a mad Lestat ^_^ plus the movie really does the book justice.

before reading blackwood farm i suggest you read anne's witch chronicles as well. lol.
as blackwood farm crosses the two series over.
the witch series includes:
first, the witching hour.
second, Lasher.
Third, Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches.

meep! i love the character Mona, who has dubbed herself Ophelia Immortal.

you're making me want to re-read all of anne's books again.

has anyone read Angel Time, yet?

I believe that the Mayfair Witches series is also supposed to cross over in Merrick... at least this is what I've heard I haven't been able to fin the time to find out for myself. So if one were reading the Vampire Chronicles I would take a break after The Vampire Armand and read The Witching Hour and Lasher and then continue just incase. It always takes me a long time to work through her books because of her writing style. I mean I will read a book very quickly but then I have to have one or two light-hearted 'easy' books in between before I can continue. The same thing happens to me with Tolkien. I like the books there is just so much there to take in that I burn myself out if I try to do more than one at a time.

I love Anne rice! Her books are really well written. The problem I have is that she has either already made a new vampire book for the series or is making one. In a magazine interview awhile ago she said she wanted to make a christiany new book after saying she wouldn't write anymore. I'm a Christian, but I don't think that is a good idea at all. She's done so she should just leave it alone, and make a new series or something so she doesn't ruin it. I think the new book might not even be considered a part of the series if she does come out with it. I just kinda worry that's all lol.

I feel about Anne Rice and her religious revelation the way I feel when a really good musician who writes best under the influence gets clean. I caught an interview with her on whatever channel here runs The 700 Club in the morning after showing a decent movie the night before (fell asleep with my tv on). She spoke about finding God and her own personal revelation and the parallels between herself and her characters and their search for spiritual answers. I am happy for her and I'm glad that she is living a life that she feels is more fulfilled and has more meaning... but a part of me is still sad to know that the possibility of more or at least good more to her supernatural series just isn't there.

I'm reading Interview With the Vampire right now. I love Anne Rice's style of writing, and can't wait to get through all of her books. *looks at long reading lists people are throwing out*