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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:14 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:19 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:38 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:26 am
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YGOPaladin Oh! *claps hands* what an exciting topic. Anne Rice happens to be a favorite of mine. Yay! I've seen both Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned. I've read all the books in the Vampire Chronicles, the lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the tales of the new vampires, as well as her stand alones Violin, Servant of the Bones, Cry to Heaven, and Ramses. There's the obvious common theme of gothic writing/time periods/what have you. But there is also this wonderful aspect to both styles where it is very likely that the "hero" will not be who you want him/her to be and the story will likely not end the way you want it to, but the way it SHOULD. There is a critical difference between the way a story should end and the way the reader wants it to end. Anne Rice and Kaori Yuki both do a wonderful job of telling stories that seem REAL to the reader simply because of the fact that everything isn't always all happy and hunky-dory at the end. There is often intense pain or saddness/grief whatever bound up with the way the story ends. I absolutely love that about them. Also... the boy x boy stuff is pretty common 4laugh
AH yes, you're right about the way the story 'should' end. The boy x boy stuff is kinda essential. Makes me wonder if they have similar fanbases?
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:29 am
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Sai-kun Oh I wish I could respond to this, but I have never read any of Anne Rice's books though so many people say I should. I did watch Interview with a Vampire though...-_- When you deal with the gothic and with the supernatural though, both Anne Rice and Kaori Yuki do like to toy with tropes... You could say that with genres like horror, fans of the particular genre keep on returning to it to see a particular kind of thing/theme, though it may be gussied up in a different guise. This can be both good and bad depending on how you see it, though I dont think Kaori Yuki has been very guilty of being cliched.
Read the 'Interview..' book. It's a good read, gives the characters a little more depth than the film. I picked it up by accident.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:52 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:30 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:47 am
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:44 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:35 am
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Anne Rice... I'm sorry, but I really, really don't like her. I've read Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Vampire Armand, and I have no wish to read any more. I suppose that Rice's and Yuki's books are sorta similar, but only with thier darkness, and the demonic characters. (I don't think the characters themselves are in any way similar).
I liked Interview, but the other ones were just so blatantly anti-Christian, particularly Lestat. While reading it, I kept finding myself saying, "but that's not true...". I'm not trying to start an arguement about religion; I just prefer things that don't take sides, at least not so harshly. Kaori Yuki doesn't strike me as taking a side; in Vol.1, she said that AS is just her own little story and that it's not how she herself pictures angels, or something like that.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:13 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:24 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:34 pm
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