My Favorite Book

     I live in a world where reading has really started to go by the wayside, or at least from the traditional sense of opening a book, smelling the new book smell, and turning the pages as take in each new enticing word. I still remember the book that changed my life when I was in high school; Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. It was not an assigned book to read for class, but it was one that really grabbed my interest and I was able to read it very quickly. In fact, I think it was the first book that I read in less than two days. I opened the pages and let Lestat take me on a magical journey through the world of vampires.
     It was unlike any book that I had ever read before. The fantasy elements and the elevated style of writing really made me feel like I was reading something that I was not supposed to, but I was allowed to read this book. In fact, my high school English teacher told me about this book and said that I might enjoy it. She was very right in her assessment of the book.
     The main premise of the book takes place in New Orleans where a reporter has come to interview Lestat about his life as a vampire. The entire book is set up as the actual interview of Lestat. He takes the reader on a journey through how he became a vampire, the first vampire he turned, how he sometimes hatted being a vampire, and how he was now dealing with it even though the people around him had drastically changed in the last several hundred years that he had been alive.
     This is also the first place that I fell in love with vampires, but no other series of books have lived up the my expectations. Anne Rice believes that vampires are special and should be treated so, meaning that she puts them in more sophisticated settings and writes about them in a fashion that authors today are unable to do. If you are a lover of vampires and fantasy novels then this one would be a great read. Plus this is part of a series of books meaning that if the reader loves the first one, they can keep reading. I read the entire series and have done so many times.