Book note

[eleneariel]

I started reading Interview with the Vampire a couple days ago and I'm sick of it already. I'm too far in to give up on it now (I refuse to waste the time I've put into it already) but...goodness. It's boring. It's overdone. There's nothing exciting about plot, characters, or writing style. It's boring.

Who would have thought a book about vampires would be boring? I expected to be horrified or shocked or righteously disgusted, but no. Bored.

(I'm reading it, btw, both because I'm curious about Anne Rice's writing before and after her conversion, and because it's a 'classic' enough modern book that I should have some knowledge of it for work, if nothing else.)

Comments

[ransomedsea.livejournal.com]

It is so terribly disappointing to get far enough into a book that no matter how horrid it is, you can't justify putting it down.

Not that I'd ever read bad books. -coughSilasMarnercough-*

*I'm way too cruel to that book.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I haven't even touched that book yet. I'm thinking I might not. Ever. Hee.

[the-storygirl.livejournal.com]

*fits of giggles*

I saw snatches of the movie before I read it, which maybe helped my perception.

Funny.

[fogwood214.livejournal.com]

I attempted reading it. Once.

What I've heard from many people is that it is boring, because the vampire in question is a boring vampire. According to my sources, the books to read in the series have to do with Lestate (I think is the uber-vampire's name?). I really couldn't say, because vampires unnerve me and I try to avoid anything relating to them. ;-) I know who Dracula is (Christopher Lee)--that's enough for me!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Oh, so Lestat is the REAL vampire?

Hm. I'll have to check it out.