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On the Devil's Road...
Apr. 28th, 2018 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
suttonstrother I've got a confession to make, y'all. I came into book club thinking that these books were really not going to hold up for me. Anne Rice gets criticized a lot for being really maudlin and purple prose-y, and sometimes she totally is. I think it's part of why I don't love Interview; Louis is just too much, and the OTT-ness of it is just kind of a bore after a while. But I'm SHOCKED by how well I think The Vampire Lestat holds up. This section in particular really sealed it for me. There is some gorgeous writing here, especially with the stuff in Cairo. Lestat's reaction to Nicki's demise is just so heartbreaking, as is the final goodbye between Lestat and Gabrielle. Just really great stuff.
I find the incompatibility between Lestat and Gabrielle fascinating. They have such different ways of looking at the world and understand their role within it. I think if I were a vampire I might be more like Lestat, living in the thick of civilization and traveling to all the great cities and just eating up as much of life and culture as I could. But there's something so bold and alluring about Gabrielle's desire to explore the remote places, too, and become something wild and animal. One of the things I admire so much about Gabrielle is that she really seems to understand the possibilities of her powers and see the potential in what she can do and be in a way that Lestat really doesn't. Coming back to this book after so long, I find I admire her now in a way I never did before. I'll be sad to see her leave the story (for now).
That said, MARIUS!!! I do love me some Marius. Can't wait! :)
I find the incompatibility between Lestat and Gabrielle fascinating. They have such different ways of looking at the world and understand their role within it. I think if I were a vampire I might be more like Lestat, living in the thick of civilization and traveling to all the great cities and just eating up as much of life and culture as I could. But there's something so bold and alluring about Gabrielle's desire to explore the remote places, too, and become something wild and animal. One of the things I admire so much about Gabrielle is that she really seems to understand the possibilities of her powers and see the potential in what she can do and be in a way that Lestat really doesn't. Coming back to this book after so long, I find I admire her now in a way I never did before. I'll be sad to see her leave the story (for now).
That said, MARIUS!!! I do love me some Marius. Can't wait! :)
