Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire

I remember watching the movie interview with a vampire when I was younger, and the fascination with vampires and teenage heart-throbs in recent movies have brought that film back to mind. Reading the book I found the movie was not too far from the original book. This story was the first vampire story to explore what it would be like to be a vampire and the sort of emotional and social complications being a vampire would imply.
The characters were interesting; Lestat was the cold-blooded killer with no regret but seemed to want companionship. Claudia would forever be stuck in a child’s body, and wanted to learn more about her vampire affliction, the kind of wonder and a child would have for the world. Louis was interesting because of his human qualities that passed on through his vampirism. Louis as a mortal didn’t want to live anymore; he squandered his wealth and his health, willing to die for nothing. Once he was turned to a vampire he somehow gained compassion for life and suffered regret, something the other vampires didn’t. Armand was the oldest vampire, leader of a group of vampires in Paris, but he found weakness in his vampires when he met Louis who he thought was beautiful for he would have human qualities for eternity. It was like Louis would forever be the suffering soul and Armand was the vampire who appreciated that the way someone might be obsessed with the life and work of van goh, a suffering artist. I thought it was interesting to see these sort of personality traits the vampires had because of their vampirism. Eternal life was a theme the book explored too, and what it would be like to be someone who was faced with never dying a natural death. I think Louis was a good main character for the book because you could feel apathetic towards him, he wasn’t entirely a monster.