Interview with a Vampire

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When I think of vampires I always think of the craze of "sexy" vampires from the early 2000's. The book slightly gave off the vibe but it was also very interesting how they got into the psychological process and thoughts of becoming a vampire. It went into detail about Louis' decent from thinking like a human and caring about lives to not caring at all and killing a bunch of vampires and even coming close to killing the character interviewing him. It also tackled a kind of loop hole in vampire lore with Claudia and her not being able to age past five years old while her mind still developed. While I thought this was particularly very creepy, especially in the movie were it showed an actual child talking about adult things, it was still an interesting topic to include in the book.
I particularly liked how the book was so involved with showing the complexity of Louis and Lestat's relationship. How it kept going back and forth between Louis thinking Lestat was awesome to thinking he was the scum of the earth. I think it really shows a good example of abusive relationships that is put into an interesting genre. It also goes a lot into how their thought processes are different. How Louis learns to appreciate with world more with his "vampire sight" while Lestat just uses his powers to get more money and continues to only care for material things. I think it really furthers the believability of the universe and concepts of vampires cause it shows how diverse they can be in their thoughts and how they approach being a vampire. Overall, I thought the book was really interesting in the way it approaches vampires, instead of them just being "sexy" and weird.

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  1. Courtney JonesJanuary 30, 2019 at 10:47 AM

    I like what you have to say about Louis's decent from caring about lives. I would say that even towards the end of the book Louis still holds a place for human life, which is why I found his killing of the vampires in Paris to be different for him. It's interesting how Louis struggles with the fact that he is a monster, but then also says he's not since he tries not to kill people. Louis is a bit of a hypocrite in the way that he thinks of vampires as monsters, but it took him much longer to finally agree that he, himself, is one too. Looking at the story as a whole, the entire debate about humanity, having a soul, and being damned is interesting and worth looking at.

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