# Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767 "2003-01-05T12:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/41 "2003-01-06T15:48:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harli \* > \*\*He wasn’t ashes…IIRC, he kinda “flew” or “exploded” and ended up on this hotel roof. He was just severly burnt, charred right to the bone, but not ashes. Because he had really strong, old blood in him. Something like that. > > Sheesh, read the book 😉 \*\* I will, I will…I was just curious. 😃 I’m the type that reads spoilers that ruin movies…I can’t help it…😃 ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/42 "2003-01-06T16:16:30Z")
In response to the OP, nope her new one, Blackwood Farm is the most overtly homosexual one…I will say no more but it is more descriptive than her other books… I convinced my SO to read her stuff and he likes it…he’s a bit of a homophobe and Blackwood freaked him smooth out…poor thing. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/43 "2003-01-06T19:30:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*I don’t know about that… but after the first three in the Vampire Chronicles, they started to seriously suck. \*\* I have to agree. Her last decade of books suck big time. I like it when she writes about other topics. And yes, she has some deep sexual obsessions, but don’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/44 "2003-01-06T23:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*I read _The Vampire Lestat_ first (my friend had it laying around and I didn’t know about IwtV). Then I read _Interview_ and then the rest in order. I’m almost glad that I started with Lestat. Since it is his book, told from his perspective, I started out with a sympathetic view of him–instead of seeing him first as a villain as he was described by Louis in _Interview_. \*\* This is exactly what I did, and exactly what I’ve said to lots of people. “Read Lestat first” etc. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/45 "2003-01-07T00:11:23Z")
_The Vampire Chronicles_? I thought Anne Rice wrote _The Vagina Monologues._ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767/46 "2003-01-07T00:24:21Z")
If anyone has read the erotica that Anne Rice has written… well you’d see that the sex in the Vampire Chronicles is practically Puritanical in comparison. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-and-the-vampire-chronicles/146767.md?page=2)