#vcreading

[cuntylouis]

The loumand dynamic is silently the most compelling part of this book, their relationship is so fascinating in every universe. I feel sorry for people who don't care about them they're missing out

[cuntylouis]

Such a harrowing passage. The complete death that comes with losing your child

[cuntylouis]

[cuntylouis]

"I don't know if the child possesses the power to release the parent..." Thinking about how the relationship between a parent and child changing as the child ages is usually an important part of a person's development, and if they don't die young it includes having to see their parents to grow old and eventually die. Some people even say they didn't start to feel fully adult before having to bury their parents. But vampires cannot change or age or die of old age, and so the relationship between the vampire child and parent can't really change either. Claudia will be a child forever and Louis won't die so they're bound to be stuck in this situation forever, they can't really grow and let go and move on. Except Claudia of course ends up dying first, but i don't know does she possess the power to release her father even in death. Even though this dialogue isn't in the show i feel the it's the same thing in it too, it's obvious that while Louis and Claudia tried to change their relationship, Louis never stops seeing Claudia as his little daughter and he'll always carry her with him for the rest of his life - which could be eternity

[cuntylouis]

Very interesting rereading interview with the vampire after s2. In the book Armand discharged the guards who were supposed to protect the sleeping coven and i wonder if he did something similar in the books. I don't remember did we see any guards but it would make sense for the theater to have them to prevent anything like Louis did from happening. In the book Armand is notably cold toward his coven, to the point that Louis who killed them is shocked that Armand is so indifferent (which Armand seems to find fascinating and endearing). Armand's pragmatic and survivalist nature is particularly clear here. In the same way he's discharging the guards as his employees because he doesn't need them anymore since he's leaving, he's also 'discharging' his coven by letting them die. Both the guards and the coven, his family, have stopped performing a necessary function for Armand and this is him letting go.

He implies that he would destroy Louis as easily as them if he deemed necessary, but he's confused why would he? Louis is performing the function Armand wants from him. This makes me again think about the show and how the situation was different and question was it really. Just like in the book Armand was moving away from the coven and theatre and passively accepted their destruction, while placing his hopes on Louis. Why would Armand in the show think Louis couldn't perform the function Armand wanted him to when everything points toward him being perfect for that? If we view Armand as the ultimate survivor, wasn't Louis his best chance to ensure his survival and not the coven he had already mentally abandoned?

[cuntylouis]

It's interesting that in the show Lestat is deeply offended when Louis says that he sometimes feels like Lestat talks to him like a slave, but in the book Lestat thinks that relationships between vampires can only exist as a form of slavery, and flat out says that he considers Louis to be his slave

[cuntylouis]

[cuntylouis]

Forgot about how in this scene after all this time Lestat shows up like okay let's deal with the girl and then i'm taking you home and Louis just goes motherfucker are you insane

But then. Then Louis tries to trade himself for Claudia's safety. Like he did in many ways in the show.

[cuntylouis]

Finished rereading Interview with the Vampire (finally, my original intention was to finish it before s2 finale aired lol). This was my first time reading the original english version. I used to think it was genuinely a pretty good book but this time it didn't hold up for me anymore. Maybe the show has ruined it for me, the book feels like an inferior shadow now. Some beautiful prose though that i think comes across better in this original than in the finnish translation i've read before. I also still loved the deep melancholic atmosphere of the book, in the best moment you feel like you're being crushed by the centuries passing. I can't really make myself care about the book Louis. The scenes between Armand and Louis i think are some of the best written scenes of the series though and i wish the show had utilized some of them more. I'm also re-evaluating the show Armand's actions like i didn't remember that in the book Armand flat out brainwashes Louis into turning Madeleine and makes him think it was his own idea. I know the show has changed many things but i wonder if that and some other things related to Armand could be later revealed to be closer to the book version

[cuntylouis]

[cuntylouis]

Armand the bottomless well who sucks life from everything around him into himself and can never be fulfilled... Also forgot about him actually telling Claudia kys and Louis feeling excited about it for a moment

[cuntylouis]

I love this line so much i hope if we'll revisit the murder night we find out Claudia said it in the show too

[cuntylouis]

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It's interesting that in the original book Lestat's turning of Louis reads so much like an assault, with Louis being hesitant and unable to struggle physically or even verbally, i had forgotten this. They actually made this scene a lot gentler and more romantic and consensual in the show

[cuntylouis]

Decided i'll try to re-read Interview with the Vampire the book before s2 finale. Might regret this

[cuntylouis]

This is such a great description of Lestat

[cuntylouis]

Blackwood Farm mini review: i... kind of liked it?

This is pretty shocking because i haven't really enjoyed any book in the series after qotd and actively hated the last three i read, and the only thing i knew about this book is that Quinn has sex with his dead twin brother's ghost. I felt this book had a lot of potential (even though as usual it didn't quite reach it) and Quinn was a lot less insufferable main character than Marius and David. It just often got pretty boring and the characters and relationships felt blander than they should've been. Still a massive improvement from the previous three books