Fuck my life I just noticed there's a line missing from this where I mention Akasha and Lestat arriving at the great families house. Welp, I'm bad at my job.
*Me, listening to a review of a book I have never read and will never read, with a thousand names that all start with the same three letters, and an incomprehensible plot:* Excellent.
No lie, this series gets so twisted-up and complicated that it makes Kingdom Hearts seem positively straightforward. If he thinks _this_ is jumping the shark, I'd hate to see his reaction to the last couple books Rice wrote. Cuz... _damn._
@@RabblesTheBinx I read books 1-5, Borrowed Blackwood Farm when it came out couldn't stand it. Prince Lestat got that, based on Lestat being back to being the focus, Prince Lestat has alot of the same problems Queen Had did not end up finishing it...Atlantis Book never bothered.
I like the idea of Marius leaving the tv turned on for Akasha and Enkil the same way you'd leave the tv turned on for your dog when you step out for a moment.
I always adore the acted bits, but the Starbucks bit made me fall out of my chair laughing, and my god, the effort of hiring a singer using a bad french accent to sing a parody of A Whole New World is just amazing. Also, can we appreciate you do better interacting with CGI characters/characters played also by yourself than most Hollywood actors? I legitimately didn't even realize that you had shot Lestat and Louis separately at first glance. I just thought you had Terrence dress up and play the second part.
Thank you so much for the very clear trigger warnings. It's really helpful that when I watch your videos I'm able to prepare myself for things that might get to me. Again just thank you so so much they're very helpful.
There wasn't much of a plot, really. Most of the book was just an introduction of multiple characters who either die before the main storyline gets started or don't add anything to it later. The only possible redemption is perhaps some of them are used in sequels later but I honestly don't care anymore. The whole thing was a huge letdown after The Interview with Vampire.
Maybe it was just me excusing some weak character writing but I always sort of thought Rice's vampire's didn't so much forgive and forget as have a toxic sort of relationship habit of rug sweeping due to the fact that all of them do horrible things and can't stop (due to being vampires and all sorts of messed up by trauma) and so when their loved ones do horrible things to them, they sort of feel like they deserve it. They all seem to constantly be in the honeymoon/abuse cycle with each other and because they're most unable to change, they just keep love bombing until tension gets too high and they set each other on fire.
@@thomasraines1396 I have trouble with names (and faces - thankfully less of a problem with reading), so I had to rewind a couple times as well. I am so glad this has subtitles, they definitely helped! I'll be using them more I'm sure 😊
This story sounds interesting, but also bloody confusing. Half way through this video I just couldn't keep track of all the characters or how they played into each other. I seem to remember that there's a comic/graphic novel version out there somewhere. Maybe I'll try that. Visuals might help.
Yeah I'm lost and about to give up. I haven't read all the books, so maybe that makes it easier to keep track. However, given the way Diana Gabaldon keeps throwing random-ass characters in throughout her books, I suspect I won't have better luck keeping Anne Rice's characters straight either.
I find it amusing that Marius left the TV on to two ancient gods like one would leave it to a pet when heading to work, then come back and find the place thrashed.
I understand but I can't believe you didn't mention Gabriella. When she shows up in a Porsche 911 and saves her son before he goes off with the Queen is one of my favorite parts.
Both the Starbucks joke and the bloopers made me laugh out loud. I'm really enjoying your dive into Anne Rice. I read the books as a teen, so it's a nostalgia trip.
I read the first book way back when on high school, then the second. I was working at a bookstore when Queen of the Damned came out. I about lost my mind! After those three I lost interest.
@@kagesong Mmm not entirely accurate. Americans with any sort of classical music background know Greensleeves. If they don't play an instrument, though, you're correct.
@@kagesong not entirely accurate. It's much like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and many, _many_ other classical pieces, most Americans will recognize the tune, but just not the name.
Ok. Am I the only one that around 8:00 has lost complete track of who is who? Not the Dom's narrationfault, he does that alright, is just... why so many secondary characters are needed, Anne Rice?
Yeah, the first time i was lost too, but, in the next books all that characters will take a place, so, it was necessary, but, really REALLY confusing :(
Dominic: *makes a clear, understandable, and compassionate trigger warning at the start of the video* Me: *immediately likes video even though said warning doesn't apply to me*
@@jackwells8107 Not true. As someone with severe CPTSD, I can tell you that such a condition did not manifest at random, and I find trigger warnings to be absolutely senseless. I enjoy Dom's content, but the patting himself on the back attitude with trigger warnings, and you gaggle of self righteous prats are the only downside to these videos.
@@owenlindkvist5355 Perhaps they're senseless for you, but everyone deals with trauma in different ways. As someone who lives with a person with PTSD, I can confirm that triggers are a recognized issue for her and several others in her support group. I'm glad you don't have to deal with triggers relating to your trauma, but it's highly disingenuous for you dump on those who appreciate the heads-up for something that could set off themselves or someone they know who experiences trigger issues.
I dislike the fact that Lestat's hard work in the story's present-day gets completely ruined by Akasha finally wanting to do world domination and extermination of almost all the modern vampires and that feels like it came out of nowhere. I'd rather see the ramifications of what he did with his band, book, and concert.
Regarding your reference to Anne Rice jumping the shark, I'd love to see you review the other 7 books in the series, just for you to see how absolutely _bonkers_ the story gets.
@@anica2112 Her books dissolve into complete insanity. I swear I am not making this up even though it sounds like it: In one scene a human looking alien has his arm chopped off, and the hand of his now detached arm grows a mouth and the fingers drag the arm back to him. The male alien then starts lactating and breast feeds his arm until it grows into an exact clone of him. In another book a freaking zombie of one of the main characters mother appears, horrifying and traumatic right? Something that should really be delved into? Its entire appearance in the novel is described second hand by an uninvolved servant watching through a window. Zombie mother was given two paragraphs, while multiple mentions of some restored antique wicker furniture was given in multiple chapters, along with an old woman's shoes. Wicker chairs and old lady shoes were deemed more important than the death and zombification of someone's mother.
@@anica2112 I legitimately don't believe that Anne Rice _had_ any fetishes. Ironically, considering the content of her books, Rice was famously prudish.
I always really liked how Anne Rice's novels include so much backstory. It makes them feel more like interconnected short stories and I remember really liking many of these stories.
Ah, The Vampire Chronicles, something I used to love until Anne went off the deep end with adding her Mayfair Witches to the series and ruining both by having Lestat meet Rowan. Be grateful that Queen Of The Damned was the last movie so you don't have to read any more of them.
@@JamiJR Prince Lestat has published after Blood Cantice (Mayfair crossover), but it didn't mentioned them. Prince Lestat is very similar to The Queen of The Damn,but it's better than The Queen of The Damn (no worry, our loved vampires didn't die in it).
@@joanavitoria1961 I kind of want Dom to read that one to see what really happened with Claudia, but it might be too traumatizing. There's also that one with the vampire who's never met anyone from the rest of the series and it's revealed he can see humans' souls.
The longer I listen, the happier I am that I never even considered reading Rice. It explains why she hates fanfics so much - I bet there were quite a few making way more sense.
@@Mysw33tophelia Which one had time travel and Lestat drinks the blood of Christ which sets Armand into despair because he was an ardent Catholic and Lestat a godless heathen? That's how I remember it, though I may be wrong on some of that. Which book was that?
It’s wild how much of this Vampire the Masquerade just lifted wholesale into the franchise. But I guess that was on purpose for everyone who loved these books. 😄
Well, this is kinda disheartening. Couldn't even keep track of all the names, haha. I was planning on reading the whole thing, since I was watching yours and Maven's reviews and decided why not - but daymn, if this doesn't sound like a big bloody mess. Ah well. Think I'll close it with the second book, then. 😅 Btw, be a dear and wish good luck to Sir Terry in future rehabs from me 🥳
I feel the same. As good as Dom is at explaining all this, it became gibberish after a while. I don't know what he could have done explain it better, to be honest. There isn't much of a core plot but a series of ministories laced together.
It is a remarkable book to be honest and the plot IS complicated as shit. There are new characters and others that were mentioned in the saga before, but here they converged all together in this one and that's why it sound like a mess. On the other hand, the story about the twins and Akasha is fascinating, as some of the others ancient stories about the vampires. It is a good book but you have to have patience because the plot unravels very slowly. I think Dom did what he can in this format (video). Greetings from Mx and sorry if I wrote with some errors or so.
If you like Lestat as a character at least, you might consider reading "The Tale of The Body Thief", the fourth book in the series. It's a much smaller story with fewer characters, and Lestat is the primary focus again.
I love the Queen of Damn ... I read in Portuguese a few times than had listen the Audiobook also a couple times. I personally feel it’s not a book for everyone... it’s a book for Anne Rice fan of the Chronicles. The book meanders sooooo much and go at least 2 parallel stories that could been completely edited out in my opinion. It surprises me her editor didn’t convince her to cut such stories plus part of the main story that were wasteful. For that I almost like the movie if they had not change many parts of the story I liked but ... this is not a review of the movie. Lol, now I’m the one meandering. Anyways I love the book but to me it satisfied the craving to know more about Anne Rice’s vampires. Maybe it’s why Ive been willing to forgive things I didn’t see making sense or being necessary to the plot. But I say this some of the Chronicles are hit or miss. Some books Anne Rice seems to have been either more inspired while others she seems to cut short, only later in other books to shoehorn details that were missed. Some characters, that she once seemed to care so much are killed out of the books. That drives me nuts! It makes me feel like I wasted hours on books that I loved been pointless if later she just erases so many characters without giving much thought. Sorry my runt ... oddly I still continue to buy her Vampire Chronicles books ... I guess I’m a sucker lol
@@Horus070 Interview was so wildly successful a novel I am almost positive that Rice had final editorial say in further books written into any new contract. I mean, Stephen King, while hopped up on cocaine and liquor, wrote about 12yo's having an orgy so they wouldn't be innocent anymore and could properly battle IT, and his editors/publisher let that go right through because once an author is pulling in hundreds of millions, the publisher will let the author do most anything they want. That said, at release and for a while after, Lestat has mostly glowing reviews. The book is meant to be something of an ensemble and a who's-who of the vampire world, so it having a lot to it makes sense. That said, I think Rice realized how far she pushed things because the next novel is WAY toned down and simple. Or perhaps she herself just wanted to do something simple for a change of pace (she doesn't seem to give a rat's ass what people think).
For he wishes to dress like a 1930's gangster but just as one sock will always go missing, so to will one half of a pair of spats (and they are much harder to replace these days)
My cat jumped on me as he was doing the bloopers, so she now has a new nickname! She's a vicious and beautiful void, so Le Spat seems suitable for both the character nod and her pettiness around her little sister! 😂
I haven't read it in over a decade but I will forever have burned in my memory the scene where Lestat licks menstrual blood out of a religious lady's vag.
@@vanyadolly this series is weirdly timed because my mom and I literally just finished talking about the hard right the books took and she had mentally blocked out that scene. I described it to her and she freaked out like "Ew gross no stop please never speak of that again".
I suddenly feel the algorithm needs to know how much I appreciate Dom's sophisticated way of wording very dramatic stuff very un-dramalike. Makes my day.
I watched this year's ago when it 1st dropped and thought it weird when you said that some ppl would be offended by a trigger warning. I thought "Who'd possibly be offended by giving ppl who'd give a heads up to ppl who may have had to deal with seriously traumatic events like rape or physical abuse" Unfortunately in the 2 years between now and then I've ran into some of those ppl. Now I get the anger
"I thought you went to rehab" "Nope you dumb human NOW GIVE ME MORE OR I WILL RIP THESE CURTAINS MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Meow."
As a huuuuge history nerd and nutjob who obsesses over 16th century England, I get so much extra joy from "Greensleeves" playing in the background. 😆 Also, as a lover of books I have rarely enjoyed any TH-cam channel as much as yours. Thank you for entertaining, smart & high quality content!
Mira Rokala I have a TH-cam channel rec for you! It’s sewing related, but holds the same vibe that Doms videos do, and is exclusively about history, all the time. Let me know if that sounds good and I’ll let ya know what it is.
I literally had to take notes to keep track of all the characters in War & Peace, because not only did they all have a given name, but they all seemed to have at least two nicknames that were used at random. Russian lit is amazing but definitely not simple.
A lot of the naming issues in Russian classics are cultural. Key to remembering them is "First name, father's name, last name" for men and "First name, mother's name, last name" for women, and understand that people WILL use all three in literature. Interchangeably. Also, somehow I feel like the million nicknames is a Slavic thing (I am Slavic). For example, someone named Alexander could be Alex to one group of friends, Xander to others, and Sasha to the parents (or just Sasha to everyone, Sasha is the most used nickname for Alexander around here). My first name is Eve, and there is....I think five derivative nicknames people use to refer to me, just in my family.
Try icelandic sagas. You HAVE to take notes to keep track. Only 15% of the about 200 people mentioned are plot relevant - but you never know which of them until they get mentioned again like 60 pages later.
I need to reread those again. I enjoyed them way more than any of the other YA vampire series. I gotta admit though, as flawed as the movie is, it’s still a guilty pleasure.
Dominic no, Maharet's telling of the genesis and history of Vampires is one of the best pieces of modern fiction, ever, and is bar none the BEST vampire genesis stories ever written.
I found a diary from when I was about 9 or 10 a few weeks ago. One entry went into how my mum and I had rented five movies to watch. I had, naturally, ranked them in my diary. Queen of the Damned was number one.
As far as the wrapup - I always read it as extreme apathy/boredom to a degree that mortals wouldn't understand. As if, once you've been alive and almost invincible for long enough, even having something really awful happen to you is at least a change of pace so once you've recovered it kinda balances out. And possibly that after you've known someone for enough lifetimes you hesitate to completely break that bond even if it's unhealthy. I have trouble even kicking old coworkers off my FB once we don't talk anymore, multiply that times a million. I haven't reread the series in years; the way you describe it reminds me why people tend to love or hate her writing style. I deeply love the world building and character building and excessively long paragraphs that are purely description and atmosphere...and a lot of people really really do not dig that. (You did not imply you hated it, I know! I just know some folks who really cannot even with it.) I don't know that I can argue if spending a book mostly on world building and backstories is "good" or "bad" writing, I just know I deeply dug it. And I think I still would on a reread. I also don't think I ever read the last 4 or so in the Vampire Chronicles, though I did read Pandora. I also loved her spinoff series about the Mayfair Witches which is...another one that even some fans of her vampire series can't stand for various reasons. xD
Same! I love all the world building and honestly when the plot comes back I'm a little disappointed. An entire story of just interesting backstory and world building is kind of my heaven.
That's so sweet, but when I read her i long for more coherent plot and less "word-building", which to me is just vampire melodrama, but hey, that's just me and each entitled to their own hook I guess... edit: or witch melodrama. I just can't be doing with the Sunset Boulevard level of melodrama.
The only Anne Rice novel I've read is "Vittorio the Vampire" which was so seriously depressing that I have felt zero motivation to read any of her other books.
Unrelated but I always laugh at the beginning of that book when he says he’s not like those dramatic *romantic* New Orleans vampires. But what he really means is he’s not gay.
I always found it funny that Marius pauses in the toilets of a vampire bar - WHY ARE THERE TOILETS IN A VAMPIRE BAR? - to read some shit someone scrawled on the wall while pushing out a vampire shit, and that scrawling is an entire chapter long. How long was this vampire shitting, and how many of the walls did he cover in this sprawling essay? There's not even any attempt to be efficient in the writing, to maybe not cover all the walls and the ceiling and the floor in long-winded text...
I always feel it’s a bit touch and go with the back stories, I do think they’re interesting but sometimes it’s a bit of a jarring aside. (Oh and I choked on my drink when A Whole New World began.)
Vampire Dom trying to romance vampire Dom all set to an Anne Rice inspired cover of "A Whole New World" sung in a bad fake French accent. * Chefs kiss *
I'd actually like a full version of that beautiful song. As for the reviews, I'm excited for you to do the Vampire Chronicles. Watching you summarize them (and act them out) is really entertaining and something I never knew I needed! I tried reading a few of the books (probably almost 20 years ago), and while I did like the backstories and worldbuilding to an extent, there was just TOO DAMN MUCH OF IT and the story itself faded so far into the background so often, I couldn't finish the read. Now I finally get to find out all the things I missed!
CW: Sexual violence Lordly if you think that back story with the ghosty girls seemed to include sexual violence in an inappropriate and unnecessary way you should NOT read some of Anne Rice's other, non vampire work! She straight up wrote an enter erotic sleeping beauty trilogy which is nothing, but hardcore non consensual BDSM from cover to cover, like 50 Shades on speed! It was enough for me to swear off her work forever after just skimming it, which might seem like I didn't give it enough of a change to properly judge it, but... Its rape fetishism. I'm good with never reading that.
I’ll grant Anne Rice one thing, she never pretended Sleeping Beauty was anything other than what it was. That was the biggest issue I had with 50 Shades; the author swearing up and down that it wasn’t abusive. The Sleeping Beauty trilogy is many things: exploitative, rape fetishistic, and often gross, but it was up front about it. Plus, on the whole, the rapists and abusers were always painted in a negative light. It’s designed to scratch the same itch that CNC play does. My biggest problem is, if memory serves, the third book takes a pretty racist swerve with all the Middle Eastern stuff. Granted, it’s been almost 20 years since I read them, so I might be misremembering.
I personally would not compare them- I can stomach non-consensual erotica because it doesn’t pretend to be something other than it is, and because it’s generally understood to be just fantasies. 50 Shades however pretends to be a romantic story, and that’s what REALLY gets to me.
@@Matrim42 No your right about the 3ed book getting kind of super racist. Though I'll grant that yes, it IS less objectionable over all if only just because it's not trying to frame all of this sh*t as good actually.
@@irenamaria8859 That's fair enough, though I would still say it sort of frames the rest of her work in a less then sunny light. But that might just be me being a bit prudish and judgey.
Sadly, people do have a fetish for rape. (Admittedly i am a lot more nicer to people who have a fetish for BEING raped then for people who want TO rape, but still.)
I LOVE all of your LIA series, but the Vampire Chronicles holds a dear spot in my heart. This was by far one of the best! Queen of the Damned was also the first book of the Chronicles that I read (silly, I know). But! The way that you break down the events of the book make it so much easier to understand. That's one issue that I have with all of the books. Things tend to get a little muddy and it's sometimes difficult to follow what is happening. (Or maybe I'm just dumb?) Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into these! It's much appreciated.
I love those books to death. I don't care about The Queen of Damn that much,but I thought Memnoch is ok. I love The tale of The Body. I love how Merrick has setted up future events like The Prince Lestat trilogy. ☺ I would love to see all of 10 books that will make into a TV series than movies that we had seen and get pick up by Amazon. These books made you are watching a TV show. 😇
I loved the hell out of the Anne Rice novels in the 8th grade and through out my high school years. My Mom always joked they were World of Darkness fanfics of a campaign gone horribly wrong. I never understood until I finally started playing the RPG tabletop myself and the joke clicked. Yeeeeeeeeah Anne Rice is fanfic of a campaign that more than likely went horribly wrong and the poor DM suffered through it.
XD I applaud you for the "A Whole New World" segment. That was brilliant. Awesome job as usual dead Dominic, I can't wait for you movie review. Let 'em have it.
"They either possess an inhuman capacity to forgive, a depressingly extraordinary level of apathy, or they're just really badly written when it comes to consistency and motivation." The impression I got when I first read those books was very much of the second option, that having lived for so long, they had simply long since run out of fucks to give, but yea, I can also very much see how the third option is also a viable explanation... the inhuman-capacity-to-forgive one, though, I'm just not feeling it; these incidents all feel much more like something they just don't see as being as important as they seem to us mortals like they should be, rather than being anything they consider to be as big of trespasses as we see the as being, but that they decide to move past anyway.
I always pretended that these were non-fiction accounts of real memoirs. I legit tried calling out telepathically to Lestat in New Orleans, but he never replied. I was heartbroken. Anyway, I hope it's a true story...
Loved the summaries you’ve done of these! In regards to actual forgiveness, I wonder if processing events for vampires is quite different than us given their expansive timelines. Yes, certain things sucked in the moment but they’ve been alive for so long it isn’t something they actively ruminate over as they have had so much happen to them? Maybe periodically they are bothered (a memory or meeting triggering those old emotions) but ultimately, they have had so many experiences and will continue to do so that they are not left in those emotional states. Either way, if you continue down this series, the characters presented in this book do pop up in other works. Thanks again for this!
That Starbucks bit made me pause the video so I didn't miss the rest of what you were saying, not to mention the flying scene. The faces you made as Lestat were amazing lol. I know you probably aren't wanting to make the Vampire Chronicles a series or anything, but I would love for you to do a review of Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil cause if you thought Queen of the Damned was insane those would blow your mind lol
I want to take a moment to thank you for everything you do. You are making the world a more palatable place to be, and that is arguably more important than ever. I want you to know that your work, dedication, intelligence, wit, and humor are appreciated. Thank you for being you.
I have read and reread Anne Rice for 30 years. That being said, Oh My Goodness. I love your hard work and wonderful recapping the Beloved Rice's Chronicles. RIP Rice.. New Fan!
I’m loving this videos about the Vampire Chronicles!! I hope you don’t end with those!! Do all the books!! There’s some really boring but for the most they are really great!! Loving it!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mekare wasn't turned to stone after swallowing Akashas heart and brain. The book goes on to say how after Akashas death and Mekare becoming the new Queen of the damned her and Maharet would walk through the forest together arm in arm.
Oddly, I loathe most anthologies but love this book second only to the Mayfair Witches trilogy - which I deeply hope you review soon - because it's a history book.
I was today years old when I realized that the only thing needed to finally convince me to purchase something my family and friends have been telling me to purchase for a long while now is for a British bibliophile to suggest it with a discount.
While it sounds like Rice loves her some world building and character depth, which I certainly appreciate, you need to have it be implied or provided at a more manageable pace.
I don't know, I loved the whole vampire mythology presented in the book, they're origins are fascinating to me. In general I enjoy all the books until "Blood Canticle", I could never finish that book, it bore me SO much... the witches where a BIG mistake.
I've read quite a few paranormal fantasy series and so many of them just have more characters and a more evil opponent each book. Everything is resolved by just getting grander and grander and after a few books there is barely anything left about the characters I liked in the first books. Usually I like the first book well enough, then I like the way they get more developed in the next two or three books and then everything just becomes way too much.... So I never buy box sets of series :-D
I know that there hasn't been a movie adaptation yet of "The Tale of the Body Thief" but I would love to hear Dominic's review of the book, it was my first introduction to the Vampire Chronicles when I was younger and its just as batshit crazy as Queen of the Damned was.
I think it's telling how many superfluous characters are jammed in here by the fact that every time you brought one up again I had a moment of "wait, who?"
Would love to see you do a book review on the Deltora Quest series. Though it's written for kids it gets pretty dark at times, the creatures described are horrific and Rhodda fills her stories with cool puzzles and riddles.
i've had to replay the 'WHOLE NEW WORLD' section and the starbucks shot over and over -I love them! It took me so long to get through the books because of the long deviations, however I am glad that Lestat and Louis got back together ^_^ even temporarily
Fuck my life I just noticed there's a line missing from this where I mention Akasha and Lestat arriving at the great families house. Welp, I'm bad at my job.
It's okay, you can still be my dom lol
You carried yourself while someone sang A Whole New Vampire World. I'd argue that you're very good at your job
dont worry bro its fine, i watch all your vids in x1.25 so no worry,
bro you make me so proud every time i see your new vid out.
*Congrats on 200K, Dom!!!*
*Me, listening to a review of a book I have never read and will never read, with a thousand names that all start with the same three letters, and an incomprehensible plot:* Excellent.
This will save a lot of time since I actually read the book. Things get even more complicated with the glut of sequels
same XD
No lie, this series gets so twisted-up and complicated that it makes Kingdom Hearts seem positively straightforward. If he thinks _this_ is jumping the shark, I'd hate to see his reaction to the last couple books Rice wrote. Cuz... _damn._
Lol I read the first book was thinking bout reading the second and third book
@@RabblesTheBinx I read books 1-5, Borrowed Blackwood Farm when it came out couldn't stand it. Prince Lestat got that, based on Lestat being back to being the focus, Prince Lestat has alot of the same problems Queen Had did not end up finishing it...Atlantis Book never bothered.
Smacks Anne Rice Novel "This bad boy can fit so much vampire drama".
Omfgg 😂😂😂😂😂
It's Free Ennui.
I laughed too hard at this comment ☠️ 😂
“I SAID I’M STOPPING BY STARBUCKS ON ZE WAY TO ZE COVEN. DOES ANYBODY WANT ANYTHING?!”
I'm French! Why elze do you think I have zis outRAGEous accent?
I need a shirt with that sentence on it in ridiculous font
This made me laugh out loud xD
I like the idea of Marius leaving the tv turned on for Akasha and Enkil the same way you'd leave the tv turned on for your dog when you step out for a moment.
I always adore the acted bits, but the Starbucks bit made me fall out of my chair laughing, and my god, the effort of hiring a singer using a bad french accent to sing a parody of A Whole New World is just amazing.
Also, can we appreciate you do better interacting with CGI characters/characters played also by yourself than most Hollywood actors? I legitimately didn't even realize that you had shot Lestat and Louis separately at first glance. I just thought you had Terrence dress up and play the second part.
videoqueen111 You identified that as a French accent...?
Im fairly certain its supposed to be “Transylvanian”.
@@shocknawe I think it's generic european vampire/gothic, also known as Uberwaldian.
implying that dressing terrence up is any different lol
@@shocknawe I called it French because it sounds exactly like John Cleese as Jean Bob in The Swan Princess.
I can't stop laughing!!!!
I swear every time Dom says "My beautiful watchers" I sit up straighter and smooth my hair
It’s really a lovely greeting & is kind to hear with this mass quarantine
Hey, I like your username! Have you already rattled your drawers today?
@Johanna Geisel Thank you, I haven't rattled my drawers today but I have been complaining every day for the last 9 months
It’s always one of my favourite parts of his videos
I didn´t realize it, but I do too ... well, the hair part. Nothing can make me sit straight.
Nobody:
Marius when Lestat reveal secrets about vampires: Oh... He want's to be noticed! That's so cute! :-)
lol
Plz notice me
Notice me senpaiii 🙃😚
Marius: Kids these days...
As usual don't forget to stick around to the end for cat bloopers ^__^
I appreciate the very clear trigger warnings! Thanks 😊
Thank you so much for the very clear trigger warnings. It's really helpful that when I watch your videos I'm able to prepare myself for things that might get to me. Again just thank you so so much they're very helpful.
I think your cat wants to be part of the videos. 😁
by cat you mean fluffy void!
I am offended you think I wouldn’t!
Ten minutes in: The main plot finally gets going."
Wait, then what the hell was everything up to this point?
The, very long, pre-plot. Its the plot, but its not *the* plot.
Filler
Anne Rice books are like 80% crazy backstory
The only one i read was pandora, got it from one of those 5 books for £1 deals.
There wasn't much of a plot, really. Most of the book was just an introduction of multiple characters who either die before the main storyline gets started or don't add anything to it later. The only possible redemption is perhaps some of them are used in sequels later but I honestly don't care anymore. The whole thing was a huge letdown after The Interview with Vampire.
Maybe it was just me excusing some weak character writing but I always sort of thought Rice's vampire's didn't so much forgive and forget as have a toxic sort of relationship habit of rug sweeping due to the fact that all of them do horrible things and can't stop (due to being vampires and all sorts of messed up by trauma) and so when their loved ones do horrible things to them, they sort of feel like they deserve it. They all seem to constantly be in the honeymoon/abuse cycle with each other and because they're most unable to change, they just keep love bombing until tension gets too high and they set each other on fire.
still better then twilight...
@E M Louis tried that. It was the first book.
Yeap. Agree
@E M Lestat, you can catch me out back...😋
Yeah that pretty much summed up all the books
"the queen actually takes it surprisingly well... Just kidding, she loses her goshdarn mind" lmfao
“This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
That was undoubtedly a better vampire book than this confused dumpster fire!
Don't forget teen vampires filling their teeth, dressing in plaid and pretending to be accountants..
Morb haha
Morb? 😳
Morbus sweeep!!
Back again
My wife turned off Animal Crossing for this
Bro. That's HIGH praise. Also my turnip prices went from 164 bells to 88 bells rip
Did she also have you put the video up on the living room TV like the last time?? 😄
@@Khenfu_Cake naturally, it's a 65inch screen and Dominic deserves only the best!
i turned off animal crossing for this, but a bit late sadly
The trick is to watch it on your phone or to play on handheld 😏
Honestly, the Lestat/Louis flying date seems the most coherent thing about this book. My head went fuzzy just trying to keep up with the video.
It was maddening I had to rewind the video a few times just try and remember everyone’s names and who they were and I’m still lost.
@@thomasraines1396 I have trouble with names (and faces - thankfully less of a problem with reading), so I had to rewind a couple times as well. I am so glad this has subtitles, they definitely helped! I'll be using them more I'm sure 😊
@@becauseimafan awesome :).
This story sounds interesting, but also bloody confusing. Half way through this video I just couldn't keep track of all the characters or how they played into each other. I seem to remember that there's a comic/graphic novel version out there somewhere. Maybe I'll try that. Visuals might help.
@Kris Kris Kris .
That is an excellent idea!
Plus, the graphic novel is itself, a thing of beauty.
You will treasure it!
Yeah I'm lost and about to give up. I haven't read all the books, so maybe that makes it easier to keep track. However, given the way Diana Gabaldon keeps throwing random-ass characters in throughout her books, I suspect I won't have better luck keeping Anne Rice's characters straight either.
I have to watch each of these videos twice
i’ve read the book and it’s relatively easy to follow, its worth giving it a try as the graphic novel cuts out a lot of interesting parts of the book!
So many names! a flow chart or even just putting the names with a small description up when he mentions them would help so much!
I find it amusing that Marius left the TV on to two ancient gods like one would leave it to a pet when heading to work, then come back and find the place thrashed.
I understand but I can't believe you didn't mention Gabriella. When she shows up in a Porsche 911 and saves her son before he goes off with the Queen is one of my favorite parts.
Phillip Schmidt or how about when Gabriel uses the term “if I waste that bitch” 😄 that part was pretty good actually coming from a 200yo vampire
Gabrielle was so damn interesting and so damn wasted.
She deserved her own book.
Gabrielle was a badass
Both the Starbucks joke and the bloopers made me laugh out loud. I'm really enjoying your dive into Anne Rice. I read the books as a teen, so it's a nostalgia trip.
SAME gosh i had forgotten so much and it's a delight to hear the stories retold
I read the first book way back when on high school, then the second. I was working at a bookstore when Queen of the Damned came out. I about lost my mind! After those three I lost interest.
Dominic: * starts talking about vampires *
Greensleeves: * casually playing in the background for some reason *
Did you know that most Americans have no idea what greensleeves is, but recognize what child is this by tune?
@@kagesong Mmm not entirely accurate. Americans with any sort of classical music background know Greensleeves. If they don't play an instrument, though, you're correct.
@@woxli3010 I don't play an instrument but know both songs.
@@kagesong not entirely accurate. It's much like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and many, _many_ other classical pieces, most Americans will recognize the tune, but just not the name.
@@RabblesTheBinx That's basically what I was saying.
Ok. Am I the only one that around 8:00 has lost complete track of who is who? Not the Dom's narrationfault, he does that alright, is just... why so many secondary characters are needed, Anne Rice?
I kept glancing at the sidebar to make sure I hadn't missed like 10 Lost in Adaptation episodes
Yeah, the first time i was lost too, but, in the next books all that characters will take a place, so, it was necessary, but, really REALLY confusing :(
Oh try following the sequels where there are even more side characters
Still less than Tolkien. Rs
@@adrianodrika Not really. The important ones in Tolkien are not that many, even in The Silmarilion.
Dominic: *makes a clear, understandable, and compassionate trigger warning at the start of the video*
Me: *immediately likes video even though said warning doesn't apply to me*
I, for one, love his very clear dismissal of the jerks who belittle trigger warnings.
@@meghanphillips3495 People who dismiss or belittle trigger warnings are people who have never dealt with real tragedy is the only thing I can think.
@@jackwells8107 Not true. As someone with severe CPTSD, I can tell you that such a condition did not manifest at random, and I find trigger warnings to be absolutely senseless. I enjoy Dom's content, but the patting himself on the back attitude with trigger warnings, and you gaggle of self righteous prats are the only downside to these videos.
@@owenlindkvist5355 Perhaps they're senseless for you, but everyone deals with trauma in different ways. As someone who lives with a person with PTSD, I can confirm that triggers are a recognized issue for her and several others in her support group. I'm glad you don't have to deal with triggers relating to your trauma, but it's highly disingenuous for you dump on those who appreciate the heads-up for something that could set off themselves or someone they know who experiences trigger issues.
@@owenlindkvist5355 everyone responds to trauma differently.
I dislike the fact that Lestat's hard work in the story's present-day gets completely ruined by Akasha finally wanting to do world domination and extermination of almost all the modern vampires and that feels like it came out of nowhere. I'd rather see the ramifications of what he did with his band, book, and concert.
There’s a lot more doomsday ideas in more recent sequels
@@LucyLioness100 Seriously? How stupid are they?
Regarding your reference to Anne Rice jumping the shark, I'd love to see you review the other 7 books in the series, just for you to see how absolutely _bonkers_ the story gets.
What happens? I heard aliens entered the mix?!
@@anica2112 Her books dissolve into complete insanity. I swear I am not making this up even though it sounds like it:
In one scene a human looking alien has his arm chopped off, and the hand of his now detached arm grows a mouth and the fingers drag the arm back to him. The male alien then starts lactating and breast feeds his arm until it grows into an exact clone of him.
In another book a freaking zombie of one of the main characters mother appears, horrifying and traumatic right? Something that should really be delved into? Its entire appearance in the novel is described second hand by an uninvolved servant watching through a window.
Zombie mother was given two paragraphs, while multiple mentions of some restored antique wicker furniture was given in multiple chapters, along with an old woman's shoes.
Wicker chairs and old lady shoes were deemed more important than the death and zombification of someone's mother.
@Veelasiren that arm lactating bit has got to be the author's fetish otherwise why would THAT get priority over everything else?!
@@anica2112 I legitimately don't believe that Anne Rice _had_ any fetishes. Ironically, considering the content of her books, Rice was famously prudish.
@RabblesTheBinx whoa that is a huge plot twist considering how horny the vampires are and Lestat being bi with a preference for male lovers.
Lestat is a brat and we love/hate him for it
Indeed 🙂
As someone who also has a vaguely cat-shaped void, I feel so seen that you call your black cat a void too.
The Starbucks/Whole New World bits were so damn funny I had to stop the work I was doing just to get over the giggles.
That French accent killed me 😂
I wish you did more Lestat impressions
I always really liked how Anne Rice's novels include so much backstory. It makes them feel more like interconnected short stories and I remember really liking many of these stories.
Ah, The Vampire Chronicles, something I used to love until Anne went off the deep end with adding her Mayfair Witches to the series and ruining both by having Lestat meet Rowan. Be grateful that Queen Of The Damned was the last movie so you don't have to read any more of them.
I am glad that she made them to forgotten in Prince Lestat.
@@shelliingle571 I haven't read that one. I gave up after she decided Lestat and Rowan were madly in love at first sight.
The Vampire Armand is kind of a gem. Just... spending that much time inside Amadeo's headspace really makes you laugh at the strangests bits.
@@JamiJR Prince Lestat has published after Blood Cantice (Mayfair crossover), but it didn't mentioned them. Prince Lestat is very similar to The Queen of The Damn,but it's better than The Queen of The Damn (no worry, our loved vampires didn't die in it).
@@joanavitoria1961 I kind of want Dom to read that one to see what really happened with Claudia, but it might be too traumatizing.
There's also that one with the vampire who's never met anyone from the rest of the series and it's revealed he can see humans' souls.
The longer I listen, the happier I am that I never even considered reading Rice. It explains why she hates fanfics so much - I bet there were quite a few making way more sense.
Lowkey some of the VC fanfics *whispers* are better than the subsequent book series.
Oh i've read several Vampire Chronicles rewrites that are way better than anything she could even write
That's cause her story writing is such a mess! I like the overall story, but I've read several of her books and decided not to after the porn books.
@@Kithanye after she got rid of her editor everything became 10 times worse.... Blood canticle was INSUFFERABLE
@@Mysw33tophelia Which one had time travel and Lestat drinks the blood of Christ which sets Armand into despair because he was an ardent Catholic and Lestat a godless heathen? That's how I remember it, though I may be wrong on some of that. Which book was that?
A sponser of a vpn that isn't Nord or express vpn. I thought I never see that ever happening.
The starbucks bit killed me, luckily an angry ghost decided I'd make a nice airbnb so I think I'll go start a sub-race of little abominations instead.
It’s wild how much of this Vampire the Masquerade just lifted wholesale into the franchise. But I guess that was on purpose for everyone who loved these books. 😄
Well, this is kinda disheartening. Couldn't even keep track of all the names, haha. I was planning on reading the whole thing, since I was watching yours and Maven's reviews and decided why not - but daymn, if this doesn't sound like a big bloody mess. Ah well. Think I'll close it with the second book, then. 😅
Btw, be a dear and wish good luck to Sir Terry in future rehabs from me 🥳
I feel the same. As good as Dom is at explaining all this, it became gibberish after a while. I don't know what he could have done explain it better, to be honest. There isn't much of a core plot but a series of ministories laced together.
It is a remarkable book to be honest and the plot IS complicated as shit. There are new characters and others that were mentioned in the saga before, but here they converged all together in this one and that's why it sound like a mess. On the other hand, the story about the twins and Akasha is fascinating, as some of the others ancient stories about the vampires. It is a good book but you have to have patience because the plot unravels very slowly. I think Dom did what he can in this format (video). Greetings from Mx and sorry if I wrote with some errors or so.
If you like Lestat as a character at least, you might consider reading "The Tale of The Body Thief", the fourth book in the series. It's a much smaller story with fewer characters, and Lestat is the primary focus again.
I love the Queen of Damn ... I read in Portuguese a few times than had listen the Audiobook also a couple times. I personally feel it’s not a book for everyone... it’s a book for Anne Rice fan of the Chronicles. The book meanders sooooo much and go at least 2 parallel stories that could been completely edited out in my opinion. It surprises me her editor didn’t convince her to cut such stories plus part of the main story that were wasteful. For that I almost like the movie if they had not change many parts of the story I liked but ... this is not a review of the movie. Lol, now I’m the one meandering. Anyways I love the book but to me it satisfied the craving to know more about Anne Rice’s vampires. Maybe it’s why Ive been willing to forgive things I didn’t see making sense or being necessary to the plot. But I say this some of the Chronicles are hit or miss. Some books Anne Rice seems to have been either more inspired while others she seems to cut short, only later in other books to shoehorn details that were missed. Some characters, that she once seemed to care so much are killed out of the books. That drives me nuts! It makes me feel like I wasted hours on books that I loved been pointless if later she just erases so many characters without giving much thought. Sorry my runt ... oddly I still continue to buy her Vampire Chronicles books ... I guess I’m a sucker lol
@@Horus070 Interview was so wildly successful a novel I am almost positive that Rice had final editorial say in further books written into any new contract. I mean, Stephen King, while hopped up on cocaine and liquor, wrote about 12yo's having an orgy so they wouldn't be innocent anymore and could properly battle IT, and his editors/publisher let that go right through because once an author is pulling in hundreds of millions, the publisher will let the author do most anything they want. That said, at release and for a while after, Lestat has mostly glowing reviews. The book is meant to be something of an ensemble and a who's-who of the vampire world, so it having a lot to it makes sense. That said, I think Rice realized how far she pushed things because the next novel is WAY toned down and simple. Or perhaps she herself just wanted to do something simple for a change of pace (she doesn't seem to give a rat's ass what people think).
La' Spat.....I want that to be a thing! From now on Dominic "The Dom" Noble....your vampire is called La" Spat!!
For he wishes to dress like a 1930's gangster but just as one sock will always go missing, so to will one half of a pair of spats (and they are much harder to replace these days)
My cat jumped on me as he was doing the bloopers, so she now has a new nickname! She's a vicious and beautiful void, so Le Spat seems suitable for both the character nod and her pettiness around her little sister! 😂
Lol this wasn’t Rice’s Jump the Shark moment. That would be Memnoch.
I kind of love that book just for the batshit crazy acid trip it took me on.
I liked Memnoch! But don't get me started on how "The Witching Hour" was a short story bloated to a 1000 page doorstopper.
I haven't read it in over a decade but I will forever have burned in my memory the scene where Lestat licks menstrual blood out of a religious lady's vag.
@@WritingWomen Yeah, that's a hard scene to forget. I also stopped reading Rice after Memnoch, but it was fun while it lasted.
@@vanyadolly this series is weirdly timed because my mom and I literally just finished talking about the hard right the books took and she had mentally blocked out that scene. I described it to her and she freaked out like "Ew gross no stop please never speak of that again".
I suddenly feel the algorithm needs to know how much I appreciate Dom's sophisticated way of wording very dramatic stuff very un-dramalike.
Makes my day.
I like how this story is slowly becoming very JoJo like
Not everything is JoJo. It shouldn't be the reference point.
What JoJo are we talking about?
There’s some influence involved/bisexual blonde vampires won’t write themselves
In what way?
@@wickedarctiinae4132 the good old jojo asspull
le spat goes on le shoe to protect from le mud.
I laughed too much at this hahahaha
I watched this year's ago when it 1st dropped and thought it weird when you said that some ppl would be offended by a trigger warning. I thought "Who'd possibly be offended by giving ppl who'd give a heads up to ppl who may have had to deal with seriously traumatic events like rape or physical abuse" Unfortunately in the 2 years between now and then I've ran into some of those ppl. Now I get the anger
I just lost it at "A Whole New World" in a French accent.
Last time I was this early Lestat was still human
"I thought you went to rehab" "Nope you dumb human NOW GIVE ME MORE OR I WILL RIP THESE CURTAINS MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Meow."
As a huuuuge history nerd and nutjob who obsesses over 16th century England, I get so much extra joy from "Greensleeves" playing in the background. 😆 Also, as a lover of books I have rarely enjoyed any TH-cam channel as much as yours. Thank you for entertaining, smart & high quality content!
Mira Rokala I have a TH-cam channel rec for you! It’s sewing related, but holds the same vibe that Doms videos do, and is exclusively about history, all the time. Let me know if that sounds good and I’ll let ya know what it is.
I think the last time I had this much trouble keeping track of a story and character list was Anna Karenina
Dude, seriously... and who gives the two male protagonists the same first name, even if they are mostly referred to by their last names?? xD
I literally had to take notes to keep track of all the characters in War & Peace, because not only did they all have a given name, but they all seemed to have at least two nicknames that were used at random. Russian lit is amazing but definitely not simple.
I have both books on my personal reading list and your comments are both intriguing and intimidating.
A lot of the naming issues in Russian classics are cultural. Key to remembering them is "First name, father's name, last name" for men and "First name, mother's name, last name" for women, and understand that people WILL use all three in literature. Interchangeably.
Also, somehow I feel like the million nicknames is a Slavic thing (I am Slavic). For example, someone named Alexander could be Alex to one group of friends, Xander to others, and Sasha to the parents (or just Sasha to everyone, Sasha is the most used nickname for Alexander around here). My first name is Eve, and there is....I think five derivative nicknames people use to refer to me, just in my family.
Try icelandic sagas. You HAVE to take notes to keep track. Only 15% of the about 200 people mentioned are plot relevant - but you never know which of them until they get mentioned again like 60 pages later.
Ah yes, Lespat
The only vampire with a *sole*.
I’d love to see you review Vampire Academy at some point.
that shit is wild as fuck I'd love to see his reaction to it lmao
I need to reread those again. I enjoyed them way more than any of the other YA vampire series. I gotta admit though, as flawed as the movie is, it’s still a guilty pleasure.
Dominic no, Maharet's telling of the genesis and history of Vampires is one of the best pieces of modern fiction, ever, and is bar none the BEST vampire genesis stories ever written.
I found a diary from when I was about 9 or 10 a few weeks ago. One entry went into how my mum and I had rented five movies to watch. I had, naturally, ranked them in my diary. Queen of the Damned was number one.
As far as the wrapup - I always read it as extreme apathy/boredom to a degree that mortals wouldn't understand. As if, once you've been alive and almost invincible for long enough, even having something really awful happen to you is at least a change of pace so once you've recovered it kinda balances out. And possibly that after you've known someone for enough lifetimes you hesitate to completely break that bond even if it's unhealthy. I have trouble even kicking old coworkers off my FB once we don't talk anymore, multiply that times a million.
I haven't reread the series in years; the way you describe it reminds me why people tend to love or hate her writing style. I deeply love the world building and character building and excessively long paragraphs that are purely description and atmosphere...and a lot of people really really do not dig that. (You did not imply you hated it, I know! I just know some folks who really cannot even with it.)
I don't know that I can argue if spending a book mostly on world building and backstories is "good" or "bad" writing, I just know I deeply dug it. And I think I still would on a reread. I also don't think I ever read the last 4 or so in the Vampire Chronicles, though I did read Pandora.
I also loved her spinoff series about the Mayfair Witches which is...another one that even some fans of her vampire series can't stand for various reasons. xD
Same! I love all the world building and honestly when the plot comes back I'm a little disappointed. An entire story of just interesting backstory and world building is kind of my heaven.
That's so sweet, but when I read her i long for more coherent plot and less "word-building", which to me is just vampire melodrama, but hey, that's just me and each entitled to their own hook I guess...
edit: or witch melodrama. I just can't be doing with the Sunset Boulevard level of melodrama.
The only Anne Rice novel I've read is "Vittorio the Vampire" which was so seriously depressing that I have felt zero motivation to read any of her other books.
Really? Vittorio was the first book I ever read by Anne Rice and was what made me want to read more. I loved Vittorio
Unrelated but I always laugh at the beginning of that book when he says he’s not like those dramatic *romantic* New Orleans vampires. But what he really means is he’s not gay.
The 1st two books are the best, but “Body Thief” is pretty good but pretty depressing.
I always found it funny that Marius pauses in the toilets of a vampire bar - WHY ARE THERE TOILETS IN A VAMPIRE BAR? - to read some shit someone scrawled on the wall while pushing out a vampire shit, and that scrawling is an entire chapter long. How long was this vampire shitting, and how many of the walls did he cover in this sprawling essay? There's not even any attempt to be efficient in the writing, to maybe not cover all the walls and the ceiling and the floor in long-winded text...
I always feel it’s a bit touch and go with the back stories, I do think they’re interesting but sometimes it’s a bit of a jarring aside. (Oh and I choked on my drink when A Whole New World began.)
i... never knew queen of the damned and interview with a vampire were in the same series...
Vampire Dom trying to romance vampire Dom all set to an Anne Rice inspired cover of "A Whole New World" sung in a bad fake French accent.
* Chefs kiss *
I'd actually like a full version of that beautiful song.
As for the reviews, I'm excited for you to do the Vampire Chronicles. Watching you summarize them (and act them out) is really entertaining and something I never knew I needed!
I tried reading a few of the books (probably almost 20 years ago), and while I did like the backstories and worldbuilding to an extent, there was just TOO DAMN MUCH OF IT and the story itself faded so far into the background so often, I couldn't finish the read. Now I finally get to find out all the things I missed!
CW: Sexual violence
Lordly if you think that back story with the ghosty girls seemed to include sexual violence in an inappropriate and unnecessary way you should NOT read some of Anne Rice's other, non vampire work! She straight up wrote an enter erotic sleeping beauty trilogy which is nothing, but hardcore non consensual BDSM from cover to cover, like 50 Shades on speed! It was enough for me to swear off her work forever after just skimming it, which might seem like I didn't give it enough of a change to properly judge it, but...
Its rape fetishism. I'm good with never reading that.
I’ll grant Anne Rice one thing, she never pretended Sleeping Beauty was anything other than what it was. That was the biggest issue I had with 50 Shades; the author swearing up and down that it wasn’t abusive. The Sleeping Beauty trilogy is many things: exploitative, rape fetishistic, and often gross, but it was up front about it. Plus, on the whole, the rapists and abusers were always painted in a negative light. It’s designed to scratch the same itch that CNC play does. My biggest problem is, if memory serves, the third book takes a pretty racist swerve with all the Middle Eastern stuff.
Granted, it’s been almost 20 years since I read them, so I might be misremembering.
I personally would not compare them- I can stomach non-consensual erotica because it doesn’t pretend to be something other than it is, and because it’s generally understood to be just fantasies. 50 Shades however pretends to be a romantic story, and that’s what REALLY gets to me.
@@Matrim42 No your right about the 3ed book getting kind of super racist.
Though I'll grant that yes, it IS less objectionable over all if only just because it's not trying to frame all of this sh*t as good actually.
@@irenamaria8859 That's fair enough, though I would still say it sort of frames the rest of her work in a less then sunny light. But that might just be me being a bit prudish and judgey.
Sadly, people do have a fetish for rape. (Admittedly i am a lot more nicer to people who have a fetish for BEING raped then for people who want TO rape, but still.)
The ‘date’ was adorable! 🤣 Thanks for the laugh. Looking forward to the adaptation/comparison video!
I LOVE all of your LIA series, but the Vampire Chronicles holds a dear spot in my heart. This was by far one of the best! Queen of the Damned was also the first book of the Chronicles that I read (silly, I know). But! The way that you break down the events of the book make it so much easier to understand. That's one issue that I have with all of the books. Things tend to get a little muddy and it's sometimes difficult to follow what is happening. (Or maybe I'm just dumb?)
Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into these! It's much appreciated.
I love those books to death. I don't care about The Queen of Damn that much,but I thought Memnoch is ok. I love The tale of The Body. I love how Merrick has setted up future events like The Prince Lestat trilogy. ☺ I would love to see all of 10 books that will make into a TV series than movies that we had seen and get pick up by Amazon. These books made you are watching a TV show. 😇
I loved the hell out of the Anne Rice novels in the 8th grade and through out my high school years. My Mom always joked they were World of Darkness fanfics of a campaign gone horribly wrong. I never understood until I finally started playing the RPG tabletop myself and the joke clicked.
Yeeeeeeeeah Anne Rice is fanfic of a campaign that more than likely went horribly wrong and the poor DM suffered through it.
XD I applaud you for the "A Whole New World" segment. That was brilliant. Awesome job as usual dead Dominic, I can't wait for you movie review. Let 'em have it.
"They either possess an inhuman capacity to forgive, a depressingly extraordinary level of apathy, or they're just really badly written when it comes to consistency and motivation."
The impression I got when I first read those books was very much of the second option, that having lived for so long, they had simply long since run out of fucks to give, but yea, I can also very much see how the third option is also a viable explanation... the inhuman-capacity-to-forgive one, though, I'm just not feeling it; these incidents all feel much more like something they just don't see as being as important as they seem to us mortals like they should be, rather than being anything they consider to be as big of trespasses as we see the as being, but that they decide to move past anyway.
Appreciation for the bit of Lestat trying to communicate with his mind.
I always pretended that these were non-fiction accounts of real memoirs. I legit tried calling out telepathically to Lestat in New Orleans, but he never replied. I was heartbroken. Anyway, I hope it's a true story...
Loved the summaries you’ve done of these! In regards to actual forgiveness, I wonder if processing events for vampires is quite different than us given their expansive timelines. Yes, certain things sucked in the moment but they’ve been alive for so long it isn’t something they actively ruminate over as they have had so much happen to them? Maybe periodically they are bothered (a memory or meeting triggering those old emotions) but ultimately, they have had so many experiences and will continue to do so that they are not left in those emotional states. Either way, if you continue down this series, the characters presented in this book do pop up in other works. Thanks again for this!
That Starbucks bit made me pause the video so I didn't miss the rest of what you were saying, not to mention the flying scene. The faces you made as Lestat were amazing lol. I know you probably aren't wanting to make the Vampire Chronicles a series or anything, but I would love for you to do a review of Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil cause if you thought Queen of the Damned was insane those would blow your mind lol
I agreed include "The Vampire Armand", "Gold and Blood" (I haven't read those ones), "Merrick", and "Prince Lestat" trilogy.
@@shelliingle571 This. It's probably not happening, but a girl can dream. His impressions of Lestat are pure gold.
@@joanavitoria1961 I really hope he will change his mind. I would love to see his impressive on The Tale of Body Theft. 😆
@@shelliingle571 Oooh! That would be special
@@joanavitoria1961 I thought it would be awesome if he do human Lestat. 😆
I want to take a moment to thank you for everything you do. You are making the world a more palatable place to be, and that is arguably more important than ever. I want you to know that your work, dedication, intelligence, wit, and humor are appreciated. Thank you for being you.
I have read and reread Anne Rice for 30 years. That being said, Oh My Goodness. I love your hard work and wonderful recapping the Beloved Rice's Chronicles. RIP Rice.. New Fan!
Take a shot every time he says “attend Lestat’s concert”
I'll be honest, I've been watching a lot of Buffy lately, and even though I know it's super wrong, I keep picturing Lestat as Spike lol
Oh the Dom, those weren't Marius' children......
I see someone haven't had time to read the vampire Armand yet
I know the next few books don't have an adaptation but i would LOVE to see Dom review up to at least The Vampire Armand
I’m loving this videos about the Vampire Chronicles!! I hope you don’t end with those!! Do all the books!! There’s some really boring but for the most they are really great!! Loving it!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Agreed, there's more books than a trilogy. 😀
Mekare wasn't turned to stone after swallowing Akashas heart and brain. The book goes on to say how after Akashas death and Mekare becoming the new Queen of the damned her and Maharet would walk through the forest together arm in arm.
The cat bloopers always melt my heart 💙
20:02= the way Dom looks longingly at himself LOL. He always looks like he's having way too much fun with these skits!
Oddly, I loathe most anthologies but love this book second only to the Mayfair Witches trilogy - which I deeply hope you review soon - because it's a history book.
I was today years old when I realized that the only thing needed to finally convince me to purchase something my family and friends have been telling me to purchase for a long while now is for a British bibliophile to suggest it with a discount.
While it sounds like Rice loves her some world building and character depth, which I certainly appreciate, you need to have it be implied or provided at a more manageable pace.
"Sir Terry, is this really the right time to eviscerate my curtains?" Just about died laughing. XD
I don't know, I loved the whole vampire mythology presented in the book, they're origins are fascinating to me. In general I enjoy all the books until "Blood Canticle", I could never finish that book, it bore me SO much... the witches where a BIG mistake.
Thank you for always giving the trigger and content warnings and not just hiding them in the description where they're easy to miss.
I've read quite a few paranormal fantasy series and so many of them just have more characters and a more evil opponent each book. Everything is resolved by just getting grander and grander and after a few books there is barely anything left about the characters I liked in the first books.
Usually I like the first book well enough, then I like the way they get more developed in the next two or three books and then everything just becomes way too much.... So I never buy box sets of series :-D
This was DELIGHTFUL! Its been 20 years since I read this book - and is forgotten so much. Thank you for the synopsis! Great job.
19:52 I need a full cover of that song.
For research
I know that there hasn't been a movie adaptation yet of "The Tale of the Body Thief" but I would love to hear Dominic's review of the book, it was my first introduction to the Vampire Chronicles when I was younger and its just as batshit crazy as Queen of the Damned was.
Funny I always had the oposite reaction. I find Lestat the least interting character in this book.
Me too! I only read for the secondary characters. Lestat is cliché and inconsistent as heck.
I just love apparently the world accepts spontaneous combustion but NOT vampires 😂
Hmm. I honestly didn't know that this book was connected to interview with a vampire
The two books, and more so the two movies, are so wildly different that it's not surprising. The movies really only have Lestat in common.
Not gonna lie, I lost my shit at the thumbnail. I know this is going to be an instant classic. Love you, Dom!
This was always my favorite in the series. I love how batshit it gets and I personally really enjoy all the different characters and locations.
To be fair, I haven't read any of these books since I was a teenager, so who knows how I'd feel reading them now
I listened to the audio book and everything was kind of difficult to keep track of with Anne’s writing style so I really appreciate this recap!
First three books and Armand: Loved them.
But I couldn't get into the Body Thief and Memoch the Devil. I'll try again, eventually.
I think it's telling how many superfluous characters are jammed in here by the fact that every time you brought one up again I had a moment of "wait, who?"
I think the idea of the vampires have inhuman levels empathy is a cute idea.
Would love to see you do a book review on the Deltora Quest series. Though it's written for kids it gets pretty dark at times, the creatures described are horrific and Rhodda fills her stories with cool puzzles and riddles.
This video is freakin' hilarious! The combination of Starbucks and Aladdin is just brilliant and I love the cat cameos! 😂😂😹😹😸😸☕☕
i've had to replay the 'WHOLE NEW WORLD' section and the starbucks shot over and over -I love them!
It took me so long to get through the books because of the long deviations, however I am glad that Lestat and Louis got back together ^_^ even temporarily
Thank you Dom, you're getting me through this quarantine with *some* symbalance of my sanity