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The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles) | 
| Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 109786
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.8 x 1
ISBN: 034538475X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345384751
ASIN: 034538475X
Publication Date: September 1, 1993
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Condition: aged pages, worn binding/cover
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It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned. The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo
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"A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant and thought-provoking and her story is a gem."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the universe of the dead. Now he is alone and everything he once believed in seems false. So he embarks on a dangerous journey to destroy his doubts and loneliness forever....
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 If you like reading Anne Rice do not buy this book July 25, 2008
I loved the first 2 in the series, got to this one and it was pure torture. i consider myself a fast reader, i can finish a book in about 3 days. This one took me over 2 years to finish reading. I would read a few pages then decide to read somthin eelse. run out of books and go back to it. When it was all said and done it only left me with the desire to never crack open a book taht has her name printed on it.
 An interesting twist on the series. July 2, 2008
Body thief is probably my second favorite in the Vampire Chronicles next to Memnoch.
The characters, especially the body thief is very interesting and sometimes amusing.
The whole idea of leaving your body and possessing another makes for a good read.
How Lestat gets his body back, and what ends up happening to David..............I'm not telling but it's worth a read.
The Vampires and the humans are facing the usual moral dilemmas, their actions are not always moral or ethical.
All in all, The Tale of the Body thief is another excellent addition to the Vampire books.
Strong story, strong characters, another masterpiece from Rice.
Recommended!!!
Even a vampire can get taken in by a con man. July 2, 2008
Fourth in the Vampire Chronicles.
Lestat, ever the angsty immortal, recieves an intriguing proposition from Raglan James, a con man who offers to switch bodies.
Lestat, who seldom looks before he leaps, gets in over his head once again. Despite many warning signs that there is more to Raglan's offer than meets the eye, Lestat agrees to the body switch and has mixed feelings about his recaptured humanity. He finds that being human is not exactly the way he remembers it. He keeps thinking, "Only a few more hours to go until I can get my body back." Unfortunately, Raglan has no intention of returning Lestat's body.
For mature readers.
Un gran libro que leer April 10, 2008
En realidad pienso que este libro vale mucho la pena, y la verdad el precio es increible en mexico este libro cuesta al rededor de $500 pesos asi que esta super barato.
Ann Rice Book, "Tale of the Body Thief December 6, 2007
If you want to get lost in a great Ann Rice book, this is a great selection. I couldn't put it down, and I finished it in about a day and a half. I recommend all of Ann's books, but this one was my favorite.
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