Horror, Fantasy, Sci-fi

     I was only able to read the first part of Interview with the Vampire . But it’s definitely a book I’ll pick up later on (when I have more time, of course.) The characters in it captured much of my interests. But the relationships between each of the vampires were some of the best parts of the novel (as I’m sure that was the intent.) I love that this novel takes vampirism in the direction of sexual feelings. That the act of turning someone into a vampire is, in fact, purer than the pleasure of sex. It’s an interesting metaphor and device for Vampires to form relationships. Or actually, how they form them. Because Lestat was lonely before Louis, and even despite his distant personality, Lestat wanted Louis around and even taught him how to survive as a vampire. Then there’s the relationship between Louis and Claudia. Having not read the rest of the book, I don’t know where their relationship/story goes, but it was…interesting. I loved the idea of ...

      I hadn’t read Frankenstein up till now, so I was intrigued to find out that it wasn’t the tale I assumed. I was under the impression that the monster was inept at language, so seeing him speak eloquent sentences threw me off. “Is this really the monster?” I asked myself. But this furthered my interests in the monster because of course Frankenstein would use a brilliant brain for his creation.        Something that confused me in the story was the timeline of events. Frankenstein mentions that only a few months had passed between the creation of his monster and the death of William. But in the monster’s story, a year and a half had passed. The latter making the most sense. I was so confused at this and thought it was a mistake by the author, but I realized that Frankenstein was possibly an unreliable narrator. He’s insane enough to animate a dead body, why wouldn’t he be a crazy and untrustworthy narrator? But something that Tom ha...