Interview With The Vampire

Now I know I haven't written here in quite a while but there really is a good reason for that, in that I was recently given the first three books of Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Chronicles'. Ergo I have spent my days and evenings reading those rather than filling the aethernet with the contrite rubbish I usually pour forth.

The one book I have completed so far, Interview With The Vampire, is absolutely exquisite. Considering it was published in about 1977, however, this is unlikely to be front-page news. Bearing that in mind, it is probably pointless to review it because those who care already know what it is about.

So in lieu of that I think I'll just describe the ethemeral experience of reading it. In my experience, I can only assume that Ms Rice wrote the book by candlelight whilst locked in a garret with a Rachmaninov concerto playing at a high volume from her stereo. Why, you ask? Because when I read it I was also listening to the aforementioned Rachmaninov and some Mozart too, and it seemed to me that the music complemented the book perfectly. Barber's Adagio, on the other hand, does not quite go so well.

And it gets better, because yesterday I procured the 1994 film of the same name. Which was worth its asking price just to see Tom Cruise alternately dance with a corpse, bleed to death and have the bejesus scared out of him by a police helicopter.