tasty read…
it’s 3.30. i had planned on being comfortably seated in a theatre watching the braodway production of wicked right about now, but eric accidentally got the dates mixed up, so that’s where i’ll be *next* week. 🙂 but thanks to his little mix-up, i got to read/finish a super yummy book today – anne rice’s queen of the damned!
this is the third book in her ‘vampire chronicles’ and it was definately a very entertaining read! having read interview with the vampire (book 1) and the vampire lestat (book 2), i was eagerly looking forward to reading this one. and of course i loved it! reading anne rice’s vampire novels is like dark chocolate, bordeaux, a good book, and a good movie all at once!
i can’t really go into details because that would divulge too much of the endings of the preceeding books, but it didn’t disappoint me! 😀 and i’m totally looking forward to acquiring the next in the vampire chronicles, the tale of the body theif. the setting for these stories is so artfully rendered by rice that i can’t help but become completely engrossed. i totally recommend these books, eventhough they’re just super-fun reads. when i read books like these, it’s just nice to get so absorbed in a different world that you forget your own ‘stuff’ for a while. like i said, dark chocolate, bordeaux, movie and book all at once. 🙂 (i will admit that i’m a little embarassed to read such purely entertaining novels that don’t reveal any hidden nuances or whatever about the human condition, blah blah blah….but come on! who can resist dark and seductive vampires and their partaking of the pleasures of the flesh?! hehe)
and yes, i’m still reading ‘the brothers karamazov’ although i’ve had to sideline it until i find a better copy. and i took a break in george eliot’s ‘the mill on the floss’ to read this one real quick, just for fun, but i’m really enjoying it, too, btw….review will follow…
September 11th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
You should become a book editor!