Interview With The Vampire

        What does it mean to live? This is the central question driving the heart and themes of Interview With The Vampire. A sensual story draped in beauty and angst in a way only the 70s could have pulled off. If you ever find yourself questioning the human experience or just want to feel relatively normal by comparison, take a quick look into this particular kaleidoscope, and you might just find a way out of your rabbit hole. A quick summary of the beginning for those that are interested: a human being (Louis) finds himself staring down the barrel of grief and depression as a tragic event takes over his life. Louis is eventually given an opportunity by a mysterious benefactor (Lestat) to become a vampire like him and escape his narrow existence. Quite obviously, he agrees, and his eyes are opened to a whole new layer of beauty and appreciation for life to the point where he completely forgets his pain. But the way he describes it all, you can feel a sense of something missing now that he has changed, and it might not necessarily be all just thrills. Once you read, you can decide if his transformation is an enlightenment or just another form of addiction. This book is a challenge to those who numb themselves to hedonism, nihilism, or addiction when faced with the greater pains of life. So what does it mean to live?

Anne Rice is the author of Interview With The Vampire, which is a part of The Vampire Chronicles series.

Fun facts

• You can actually visit the house mentioned in the book by going to the garden district in New Orleans
  
• The whole book was written in 5 weeks 
  
• There is a movie adaptation with Tom Cruise as Lestat
  
• The book was written after a tragedy occurred in Anne Rice’s life and one of ​ the main characters was based on this tragedy