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Feeling Lestat - Blog 2

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For days now, I've been consuming myself with the sugary words of Anne Rice in her book "The Vampire Lestat" (the second book of "The Vampire Chronicles" and one of my favorite books). I just thought I needed some sanity in me to conform myself that vampires are dark creatures and not those kind as portrayed by Stephanie Meyer (author of the Twilight Saga) as glittery immortals repeating high school over and over again for the past hundred years. I needed to satisfy my knowledge that vampires are inexplicably charming but ruthlessly cunning at the same time.

Yes, that's what being a vampire is and not some pixie pansy who sparkles under the sun. Get a grip, people. Stephanie Meyer can't even write. Do you want some proof of how her pieces are categorized as "glorified fanfiction"? Here, lemme provide a piece of her literature: LINK

And it doesn't even surprise me that while reading that, I've read it like I was really reading fanfictions. Skimming and scanning, only reading the conversation parts. In totality, I don't read like that at all especially when I read a book, but this book presents itself as to be read like that—like it was inviting me to capture a sense of it without even bothering to be particular. That's what Stephanie Meyer's piece is.

I don't mean to be prude and bias, but I can't help compare her work to the famed Anne Rice. The idea that vampires are being crazed now when they already existed even before the Twilight Saga is pissing me off. Call me sadist, bitter and cruel, but this is one of the reasons why I don't like kids. They sensationalize over the simplest things that it makes me want to torture and kill them. Oh the luxury of it would satisfy my evil self but all I could do is slap them by the nape and brutally attack them with the dirtiest of words. Their virgin immaturity gags me to the core that sometimes their very existence makes me twisted and oftentimes I thought of giving in if not for the other angelic side of me.

So what's so special about "The Vampire Lestat"? The imagery is so pristine that I find myself watching everything inside my head. When Lestat thirsts for blood, the words are so full that I even thirst for blood too. The impact is so vivid and convincing that whenever I read it, I am in a pace of not stopping and always continuing up to what happens next. It is unpredictable and moving that I end up feeling whatever Lestat is feeling.

Even in the beginning of the book, I've already felt what the mortal Lestat felt. I laughed at the coincidences. It felt too good to be true but here it was, right in front me, the perfect words that described the inner depths of my soul back then that nobody understood. It scared me so I kept the thoughts to myself, but this book reveled into me. Every word flowed into my system and it read everything and accepted all of it like it was my friend forever. Yes, the book is that well-written.

Heck, it was even unbelievable that when he became a vampire, I had the same mind as his—his evil and human side, and even the angelic side. It made me feel not alone and that is quite a big of a deal for me because I don't have to rebel on everything anymore. Maybe on a few things, but not all the time anymore. Here's one of my favorite quotes from the book that I even had it posted on my FaceBook status message:

"I wasn't part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of the dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed."

I smiled too and I knew how dark he must've felt. I enjoyed it so much that maybe you'll find it insane, but for me, it is to keep my sanity. Feeling Lestat and feeding my evil thoughts enables me to see other things in a supposed "normal" perspective. Now that I look at it, it looks strange enough to the naked eye. Too bad, not many people feel it the way I did.
I'm feeling evil and thirsty.
Thanks to Lestat.
Yesh, I'm on Team Lestat <3
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Blue-Demon-Hybrid's avatar
I agree with this piece on so many levels. The dark side is a lot more interesting when it's actually dark.
I dislike kids for that reason that you listed, as well as others.