22. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (7/10/2011 - 7/15/2011)
I've tried to read Anne Rice before and found her writing dense and sometimes difficult to read -- not because it's hard to understand necessarily, but because it gets boring. This time I thought I was prepared to actually read and appreciate her writing (I tried before about 6 years ago and put it down almost immediately), but it turns out that ultimately, Anne Rice's vampires simply don't appeal to me. The main vampire in this novel is really quite depressing -- he has trouble dealing with the immortal life he's been given and plus, frankly, he's kind of boring. And the plot is large and slow-moving; this vampire is telling his story, which extends from about the 1790s or so until roughly modern day, and it is simply not that interesting. I read the entire book, but I had to force myself through some sections -- no matter how I tried, I could not get really into this book.
I realize that Anne Rice has many many rabid fans out there who love her books, and that's just fine with me -- I'm just not one of them. I thought about reading another in the Vampire Chronicles just to see if I'd like that better, maybe the protagonist would be more interesting or something, but I just couldn't make myself.
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