Queen of the Damned Books

This coffin box Set Is a great addition to a collection of vampire Memorabilia . Open the lid (flap) to see who is inside. you can pick who is in the coffin, One is the child vampire and the other a dark haired male vampire.

Anne Rice is the best modern writer on vampires. I have read them all and she rocks. The coolest scenarios and she reads like an intelligent airport paperback book writer. Her writing goes down easy like a comic book. I have written a book on vampires too if you are interested. It's called Seamus and Emer. It's available on Amazon so take a look. Good Luck! Bye Bye!

... a fine set of Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. What a refreshing point of view and burning light to see vampires in. Rice gives us vampires with feelings - why shouldn't a vampire feel joy, pain and regret? Yes, bottom line is they are merciless killers, but this is the all-too often typecast image of vampires that Hollywood likes to betray. These immortals don't just sweep in with a dramatic flare of their capes (most of the time they don't even wear one), kill then leave - we experience their agony, hunger, happiness and turmoil before and after each kill. Anne Rice gives us so much more - imagine YOUR fears, regrets and hopes from your lifetime spread over an eternity. Would you really want immortality? What is right and what is wrong? Good and evil? The devil and God? Leave your humdrum life behind for a while and bury yourself (literally) in a world of fascinating, real characters in sumtuous, historic or sordid surroundings. Enjoy, but remember to put the lid back across when you're finished...

I would have preferred to have been able to buy these audio books on cd; however, they were unavailable. Since I had read them all so long ago, it was time to delve back into them. Buying audio books to bring on vacation, was the perfect idea! (I didn't have to worry about getting any suntan lotion on the pages!)

I knew about Anne Rice, but I had never read any of her books before. I read Interview With The Vampire, and I couldn't put it down! It's one of the best books I've ever read. Now I'm reading the whole set. It was great!

Anne Rice has reached the ultimate boundary of thrills with the vampire chronicles. I felt I was one with the characters. Each page brought forth Anne Rice's imagination on paper. One of the best series of the decade. Diana.J

The first three books of the vampire chronicles are the most exciting books that I've read in a long time. There's action, adventure, love, betrayal, and even a few lessons to be learned if you can read between the lines. Other books in the vampire chronicles don't compare to these three.

Had never read anything by Ann Rice until Interview with a Vampire. Could not wait to start the second book and then the third. When I had finished the Vampire Chronicals I started looking for other books by Ann Rice. Each book leaves you hanging on for the sequel.

It was great! These books were so wonderfully emotional and dark, I could practically see in my mind's eye Lestat and Louis, and I could feel the strength of the old ones.

These 3 books were amazing... a friend on-line pushed me into reading the first, and I eventually borrowed the second and third from my English teacher... I couldn't stop! Lestat, Louis.. they're wonderful characters. Marius, Pandora, the same. But Armand has always been my favourite. Always has, always will. I am absolutely AMAZED at the way Anne Rice writes, and I am drawn to her books like a pencil to paper!

THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
BY ANNE RICE
NARRATED BY FRANK MULLER
UNABRIDGED 15 AUDIO CASSETTES, 21.75 HOURS.

Copyright 1988 by Anne Brien Rice
Performance copyright 1994 by Recorded Books, Inc.
Cover art by Tom Caldwell; copyright 1994 by Recorded Books, Inc.
Recorded by arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 0 7887 0100 2.

"The writings of best-selling author Anne Rice have been called swooningly sensual, unflinchingly gory and surprisingly literary.
In The Queen of the Damned, Rice plunges readers into ancient civilizations from Egypt to South America, weaving the threads masterfully into a rich tapestry of the violent, sensual and powerful history of vampirism.
Enhanced by Frank Muller's deep sensuous tones, Rice's mesmeric storytelling envelops the listener, creating an indescribably powerful listening experience.

Akasha---the mother of all vampires---has awakened from her 6,000 year sleep determined to become mankind's bloodthirsty savior.
Lestat, the rougue vampire is at her side, an unaware accomplice.
Across the world, the sleep of humans and vampires has been disturbed by a mysterious dream about twins with fiery red hair who suffer unspeakable tragedy.
In a shocking and memorable climax these stories collide with the fate of both humankind and the immortals hanging in the balance.

"... SHE HAS MADE A MASTER PIECE OF THE MORBID, WORTHY OF POE'S DAUGHTER...
It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice."---Wall Street Journal
[from the back of case cover]

This novel has a lot of philosophy to it that really makes it, not just fun to read, but memorable. I read this book over a month ago and yet I'm still thinking about certain moments and certain questions.

The book hits the ground running, right from the start there's blood, lust, and "rock and roll" as Ann (and people from past decades) call it ;)

If you were charmed by Louis and Lestat, it'll be difficult to not fall in love with a couple of new characters including a brave and clever archaeologist with powerful psychic abilities named Jesse. And Daniel, Armand's beautiful companion who recorded Louis' story in IWTV.

I wanted to give this book a 4.5, but since I can only give it a 4 or a 5 I rounded it up.

The reason I don't think it deserves the full 5 is that the climax didn't end up being as climactic as it could have been. The Queen of the Damned is simply built up too much as being too powerful for there to have been any good ending. and for all her thousands of years, she certainly comes across as very childish and simple-minded and it seems odd to me that she is so different than every other vampire in the story, ancient or fledgling. In fact all the remaining vampires end up appearing more unison and similar than you would ever expect. It's as if they're all different parts of the same person. But perhaps they are all different parts of the author, battling out these philosophical questions through these characters.

Regardless, you're going to want to read this book for yourself. If you've ever enjoyed an Anne Rice book before, you're going to enjoy this one.

The whole "all men are evil" nonsense just doesn't do it for me.
I may be a tad oversensitive but its how I took the book.
The story is decent, the characters are well thought out, the story itself is long and a little tedious, but I'm glad Akasha gets hers at the end of the book.
This book is better than "Lestat"
Most of the "rock star" nonsense is absent.
I'd say if your new to the Vampire books, then start with "Interview", I wouldn't say this is required reading.
It has some interesting parts, but on a whole, the series is starting to get bogged down with too many characters, too many story lines and the already mentioned, male bashing.

Third book in the Vampire Chronicles.

Lestat is back, narrating another book and breaking more rules. Lestat traces his vampiric roots back to ancient Egypt and we meet the first vampires, now as still as statues, seemingly unaware of the world around them. Lestat wakes Akasha, the Queen of the Damned, and sets an ancient prophecy in motion. Marvelous!

The brat prince is back with a second memoir, the third in The Vampire Chronicles series. The tale is as compelling as ever, as sensuous, but I found this book to be a little more... disjointed than the others, possibly because of its 3rd person narration throughout most the first two thirds of the novel. Brilliant tale despite the confusion of the various, oft seemingly pointless, narrators on the first read.

Strikingly different from Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, nevertheless The Queen of the Damned is worth the read if you're a fan of the series. If not...

This book presents the back story for the whole vampire race, with the story of the demon that gave them their abilities, and the introduction of the few ancient vampires other than the royal pair, and the amazing abilities they gain as they get older and older.

A new human character is introduced, Jesse, of the bloodline of one of these ancients, and also David Talbot, a researcher with a society devoted to investigating the supernatural. Jesse is turned when she is injured severely at the concert.

Lestat's rock concert antics have drawn the Queen out, and there will be conflict. This Queen is not just a she who must be obeyed type, but a she who must be obeyed or there will piles of thousands of bloody corpses everywhere at my bare hands type.

The Queen takes Lestat on a tour of the world, showing her plans. No-one else agrees with them, and conflict ensues, with the oldest vampire other than the Queen eventually taking her out, and taking her place.

It was a great product. I was very happy that there were four books in the box set, it was very cheap, it got here in excellent time, and everything was in perfect condition.

same as the title...even this is an international shipment.

amazon, thank you!

Overall you can see and judge for yourself which of the stories work and which don't. In Queen of the Damned (which was a so-so movie by the way), the author moved away from the first person point-of-view (POV) which added a richness to the story to the omniscient POV.

She recovers nicely in other stories!

Overall a great series if you like vampires. Nice to get them all in one shot!!

Recommended.

got to be the worst book i ever read, read the first one, half of second couldnt take it anymore,so slow and stupid, what a waste of paper, if your a vampire fan, do yourself a favor read something else, like midnight mass, from fpaul wilson, this is way to out there, complicated, and stupid

For any Anne Rice Vampire fans you cannot go past this beautiful Box Set with modern artwork cover designs. My only complaint is why on earth isn't the Fifth and final volume of the central plot Vampire Chronicles (before all those spin-offs) included??? The fifth and final volume "Memnoch the Devil" should definitely be included in the Box Set without which it is simply NOT complete when the finale ends nicely with Lestat's famous last words:

I am the Vampire Lestat. Let me pass now from fiction into legend.

THE END

9:43 February 28, 1994 Adieu, mon amour.