Constant Reader
speaker
4,853 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Constant Reader’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that romantization of the the vampire as a lover.
And of course without Interview with a Vampire we don't get True Blood, we don't get Twilight, and we don't get all of the modern incarnations of the vampire as a monster.
Here is the interpretation of the monster as a lover.
A creature deeply human and fueled by passion.
And then less than five pages in, Anne Rice gives us an incredible description of the childhood of our vampire.
You see, we lived far better there than we could have ever lived in France.
Perhaps the sheer wilderness of Louisiana only made it seem so, but seeming so it was.
I remember the imported furniture that cluttered the house.
The vampire smiled.
And the harpsichord.
That was lovely.
My sister used to play it.
On summer evening she would sit at the quays with her her back to the open French windows, and I can still remember that thin, rapid music, and the vision of the swamp rising beyond her, the moss hung cypresses floating against the sky.
And there were the sounds of the swamp, a chorus of creatures, the cry of the birds.
I think we loved it.
It made the rosewood furniture all the more precious, the music more delicate and desirable.
Even when the wisteria tore the shutters off the attic windows and worked its tendrils right into the wash wicked brick in less than a year.
Yes, we loved it.
Before long we get our first hint of Lestat, when Louis writes of the death of his brother, whose entire body moved forward as of being swept by a wind and fell breaking his neck suddenly.
So this is the question.
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