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Publication Year: 1988 Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 233 EAN: 233. Synopsis In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classicInterview with the Vampire. In 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story ofThe Vampire Lestat. InThe Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary 'Vampire Chronicles' in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds: - The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience-pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration-are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a 'greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,' fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him.
Mar 29, 2011 - Book reviews. In The Queen of the Damned, the third of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, (another is already in the works), Lestat has lost the.
The sleep of certain men and women-vampiresandmortals scattered around the world-is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other-some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end.
Akasha-Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to 'save' mankind from itself and make 'all myths of the world real' by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: 'I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause'. These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories of the 'first brood' of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created-mortals succumbing to the sensation of 'being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing.' Vampires are destroyed.
Dark rituals are performed-the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead-and perhaps of the living, all the living-will be decided. Product Identifiers ISBN-235 ISBN-558233 eBay Product ID (ePID) 127361772 Key Details Author Anne Rice Number Of Pages 464 pages Series Vampire Chronicles Format Hardcover Publication Date 1988-09-12 Language English Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Year 1988 Additional Details Series Volume Number 3 Copyright Date 1988 Dimensions Weight 27.9 Oz Height 1.4 In. Width 6.5 In. Length 9.5 In. Target Audience Group Trade Classification Method LCCN 88-045311 LC Classification Number PS3568.I265Q8 1988 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 Dewey Edition 19 Reviews 'Mesmerizing.
A wonderful web of dark-side mythology.' - San Francisco Chronicle 'With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.' - Los Angeles Times 'Imaginative. Intelligently written. This is popular fiction of the highest order.' - USA Today 'A tour de force.'
-The Boston Globe From the Paperback edition. A wonderful web of dark-side mythology.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.' -Los Angeles Times 'Imaginative. Intelligently written.
This is popular fiction of the highest order.' -USA Today 'A tour de force.'
-The Boston Globe From the Paperback edition.
The second and third novels in author Anne Rice's popular book series The Vampire Chronicles provide the inspiration for this horror sequel starring ill-fated actress and recording artist Aaliyah, who was killed in an airplane crash before the film's release. Stuart Townsend is the vampire Lestat, who has awakened from a century-long slumber and turned his considerable energy to rock music. His vampirism identity mistaken for a gothic hard rock publicity stunt along the lines of Kiss or Marilyn Manson, he quickly becomes a pop music sensation. Lestat's powerful music reaches the ear of the slumbering Akasha (Aaliyah), the millennia-old 'queen of the vampires' who was the first immortal bloodsucker.
Akasha is soon free and embarking on a quest to seize control of the world with Lestat at her side. In the meantime, Lestat becomes an object of fascination for Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau), member of a secret order studying the supernatural called the Talamasca, and a band of ancient vampires come together in an effort to stop Akasha, even though her destruction could potentially cause their own deaths.
Queen of the Damned co-stars Lena Olin and Vincent Perez. Karl Williams, Rovi.
½ Queen of the Damned is a terrible vampire film based on the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. As a fan of vampire films, I thought that this film simply a missed opportunity to create something good. The film fails on so many levels. The cast is horrible and the plot is unimpressive.
As a vampire film, Queen of the Damned is one of the worst that I've seen. This had the potential of being a great horror flick, unfortunately the film just doesn't deliver. The plot is poorly constructed and uninteresting Aaliyah is horrible in the lead, and she's not really convincing in the role. As a matter of fact she really can't act.
The film isn't effective as a horror film, and definitely isn't as memorable as so many other vampire films that came before it. Director Michael Rymer's directing is sloppy, and the end product is a film that is dull, boring, silly and overall a waste of time. Queen of the damned had the potential of being a great film, however due to a bad script, bad cast and bad directing, this film never does succeed at being a good vampire flick. The only thing that the film succeeds at doing is being a forgettable vampire film. As a whole, this film just doesn't cut it, and offers nothing new to the genre.
This an entirely forgettable film that is simply put a waste of time. If you enjoy a good vampire film, you won't find it here. This film is awful. Starring: Mr. 'the crow part 2' aaaaaand Ms. Hot black but not totally black singer chick who died in that awful plane crash but makes up for being a dead person by playing a dead vampire and not very well but its ok cause shes only in the film for the last ten minutes and doesn't say much other than, 'bow to me and shit' and even if she was in the movie the whole time it wouldn't matter cause her audience can't recognize good line-reading but what they do know is good music which is why we have performing all the songs for the film. The guy from Korn!