Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
The Vampire Chronicles were great-particularly The Vampire Lestat (I thought interview was over-rated).Queen of the Damned was also very good.Sort of lost her way a bit with tale of the body thief but memnoch the Devil was a really excellent novel.However I think when she steps outside of the characters she established so wonderfully in the chronicles series to try other avenues they seem flat and lack character and the imagination and depth she achieved there.Overall a very talented writer though.

I started reading her stuff back in 1990 with Interview. Thought it was good but also overrated. I did not know until the following year that there were more books in the series. Picked up Lestat and devoured it. Unbelievably great book. Loved the history and characters, especially Armand. Found Queen about 6 months later, thought it was fantastic, perhaps even slightly better than Lestat (prepared for flaming!). Body Thief was good, not great. Then around 94 when the first movie came out I was shocked when I saw her do an interview on the tape when she talked about Memnoch. I remember the big hub-ub about it and I read it in a week and thought no big deal. Cool story, not great (again). During this time I'd also started to get interested in the Mayfair witches trilogy. Thought Witching Hour and Lasher were among her best stuff. Have never read Taltos, sadly. I read Lasher when I was working as a weekend computer "lab attendant" at my college. I remember during some of the scarier parts the wind was blowing the window shades violently around in some of the labs. Creepy. Fun.

Right around then I started to come out of her stuff a little. Never read anything past the first 1/4 of Armand and a few chapters of Merrick. Now I want to read the rest of what I've missed. I miss Lestat and want to see what happens to him and also finish Taltos.

Did you like the Interview movie? I loved Banderas as Armand, though I know he was an unpopular choice.