"In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life...the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood".

I really like the idea of this book but the execution is terrible. I know it's a modern gothic classic but I just couldn't get into it. I thought the movie was better (I don't say that often). That said, there are some fun moments and I actually found Lestat to be quite a likeable character.

However, other's have loved it.

"One of the most wonderful, erotic, sensual books ever written." - Sting

"A spine-chilling nightmare...highly accomplished...an impressive feat of imagination." - Sunday Times

Very slow reading. Anne's writing has no unserssory words so u cant just skimm it...so far so good! -thumbs up-

As you can probably tell, Othlon has ground to a halt with reading this book - time to set it free! Will take it along to our lunchtime Booklette at Woden this Friday.

I brought this home from today's meetup in Woden, and my partner decided he'd like to read it (given it's about vampires).