Vampires on a Sunday morning...

[fajrdrako]

Another quiz from kikibug13 - with pretty much the answer I was hoping for:

You scored as Lestat de Lioncourt. You are Lestat, the rebellou type who does not believe the rules apply to him, the centre of attention while others find your charismatic nature to be very magnetic. You have no problem expressing you opinions openly. </td> Pandora 83% Lestat de Lioncourt 83% David Talbot 67% Marius Romanus 58% Armand 42% Louis 33% Maharet 25% What Ricean vampire are you??? created with QuizFarm.com

No problem expressing my opinions - that's for sure!

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I never saw "Dracula's Daughter". (There are so few old movies in my repertoire!) I read Interview with a Vampire in the late 1970s or early 1980s, and loved it, and then went on a vampire-story reading spree - there were no other Anne Rice vampire novels then, but it was just at the beginning of the Doeg Moench/Gene Colan comic book series Tomb of Dracula, which was excellent - or so I thought at the time. Well. Moench/Colan, of course it was good. I also read Dracula at about that time, and the Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "St. Germain" novels, and... what else? Well, the further Anne Rice novels, but I liked each of them less than the one before, and pretty much stopped reading them when it came to the Mayfair witches series - where I think I read the first two, and that was already way after my level of enjoyment had plummeted. Though I rather liked "Rameses the Damned", probably because of the inclusion of Cleopatra.

So. Haven't read Anne Rice in years, may never again, but never say never. My favourite of her books by far were not anything about vampires or the supernatural, but her historical novels Cry From Heaven (about a 177th century Italian castrato) and Feast of All Saints (about free black in New Orleans c. 1820).

I'm not sure what my level of subjectivity here is. I have in the last decade become extremely uninterested in vampires or any type. My perception is that Anne Rice's earliest books were good, her later books are not, but that may be totally wrong.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I love the Hammer vampire movies, too - especially Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla in The Vampire Lovers.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The Vampire Lovers

Good title!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It was based on the Lefanu story, Carmilla, but increased the vampirism and the lesbianism... A good thing all round!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sounds like something I should watch.