still old

Just kidding, the wormhole of cynicism that people affectionately refer to as my mind will always belong to Salinger. But recently a friend kept hassling me to read ‘Interview With The Vampire’. At First I was reluctant, I mean I’m not really in the habit of reading horror unless its J-Horror, in that case I love Koji Suzuki, and the ‘Vampire Hunter D’ collection.
At first I must say that I thought my worst assumptions were confirmed, the whole novel had such a Freudian atmosphere, it was infuriating. The Vampires didn’t believe they could love but they were still experiencing the lust and ecstasy from killing. And I was all set to absolutely abandon my friend for forcing me to read this, when I realised that not once in the novel did Rice ever make one of her characters fall in love in a glorified manner. Ok that sounds kind of strange, but when you think about it, the characters believed that they were unable to love fully, and when they did hold affections for somebody they didn’t ever believe it to be something of purity.
Damn I think I have finally found what I’ve been looking for. Don’t get me wrong, Salinger is great at not forcing this whole concept of pure love down your throat, but his characters always carry a certain amount of innocence, which tend to make their love stereotypical.
After realising this I decided to see if this was true to all her books, that and the fact that I think Lestat is so damn cool. And so far I have read three of her books and in each one it has been the same. Yes her characters may fall in love, but they never try to make it out to be pure they always make excuses, and state that it is just infatuation, or the fact that they don’t want to be alone.
I never thought it would be possible for fantasy to mirror reality as much as is the case with Ann Rice’s novels.