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Taschenbuch: 448 Seiten
Verlag: Ballantine Books (13. Dezember 1997)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0345419634
ISBN-13: 978-0345419637
Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 14 - 18 Jahre
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,5 x 2,5 cm

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It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.

Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.

The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .

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Rice fans awaiting the finale of 1990's The Witching Hour will be only temporarily dismayed by the author's fourth bloodletting and the return of the Vampire Lestat--in what is Rice's most strongly plotted novel yet. Lestat first appeared in the cloth-of-purple-velvet Interview With the Vampire (1976), the first modern novel to take up vampirism on a scale of detail whose seriousness sowed the dragon's teeth of imitators. Here, Lestat holds the storyteller's reins and tells of his recent folly in attempting to return to mortality. He despairs of his present 200 years of life, then goes to the Gobi desert to commit suicide by flying into the sun. But death by sunlight is too painful to bear. So when he is approached by Raglen James--a con artist who has been kicked out of the secret psychic organization The Talamasca, good guys with a computerized record of all major evil events caused by nasty spirits, and who has learned the trick of body switching--Lestat is fatally seduced into switching bodies with James for two nights and a day. This is a third of the waffling way into a novel that is slow to set its hook. But once Rice gets to the body switch, she provides her most inspired pages ever. Sweet-smelling, cruel, proud, self-pitying, death-proof, snotty, multimulti-billionaire honcho vampire Lestat finds himself in the tall, handsome body of a man who bears every human frailty, suffers proneness to a killer cold that lands him in the hospital, has mortal fears by the dozen, synapses much slower than Lestat's, sloshy flesh that twists with hunger, always feels leaden, and must descend to the horrid stinks of the toilet. He's robbed blind by James, a great hacker thief, and falls in love with a Catholic nun--while James, on a blood-flying rampage, won't give Lestat his body back. Irresistible as Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin's All of Me. (Book-of-the-Month Dual Selection for December) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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The Vampire series is losing it's focus. 19. August 1996

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Like many people, I found Interview with the Vampire to be a milestone work. I loved the book. When The Vampire Lestat came out, it was easy to overlook the fact that Lestat spends a lot of book complimenting himself. I was starved for more information on this facinating character, so I was willing to put up with it. However, I believe that once an author gets on that track, it only gets worse with time. This series is losing it's focus. The storylines are getting weaker and weaker, and Lestat worships himself more and more. I need to ask, am I the only one that sees this trend in Anne Rice's novels? I read this one for the sake of the series, but I couldn't even finish Memnoch the Devil. Whatever happened to the author of Cry to Heaven, and Interview with the Vampire? Is she still with us? I find it hard to believe that the same aritst that wrote those two books is the same one turning out these commercialized hype-novels. I was sorely disappointed. Thomas S. Finkelmeier Jr. bishop@bright.ne

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Nice Change of Pace 17. Juli 2000

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Rice proves that she is not trapped by one form nor one type of novel. In Tale of the Body Thief, Rice tells a simple 'tale' of Lestat wanting to be what he cannot, human. I love the fact that Rice doesn't hide behind the past or behind a multi-character plot, she shows that she can champion the basic novel. The twists and turns are still unexpected, but true to form. I love how she devles even deeper into who Lestat is now. None of her novels have completely dealt with who Lestat is today like this novel does. I feel that this novel is a beautiful jewel highlighting her unmistakable writing skill.

A very serial novel, but the way a serial novel should be done.

Still just as wonderful! 16. Juli 2000

Von "saberchick"

Anne Rice continues her saga with the same colorful images and characters from her first three books. Lestat, wishing for just awhile to become human again, trades bodies with a mysterious man. But what he finds is far from the sunlit paradise he expected. Instead, he ends up with surprises he didn't expect....and a disaster befalls him when the human in his vampire body runs rampant across the globe.

I laughed at Lestat's struggle with being human, then nearly cried at the sacrifice Gretchen tells of. (I am a pianist myself, understand.) David is still his stubborn self, but with a well-written twist that chilled me to the core when I read it. This book really covered all the bases of emotions. And the descriptions are vivid enough to make me feel as though I really am in Miami; an $8 vacation, so to speak.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who had read the others. I only hope that Memnoch the Devil will continue this trend.