Have you listened to any of Simon Vance’s other performances before? How does this one compare? I love Armand and Daniel, I love Marius, Claudia and Louis as well. Though I do love the main character, Lestat, my favorite characters in the first three of the Chronicles are those with the most depth and curiosity. The queen of the damned ranks quite high in the audiobooks I've listened to so far, though I can't put a number on it. Where does The Queen of the Damned rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Although it is sometimes grating, Anne Rice does make some good points, whether or not you agree with her. This was one of the important 'foundation' books for the urban vampire genre, even if they seem a bit stilted by current standards. It is still, I think, worth the time to give this and the other two a listen. If you have been awaiting unabridged audio versions of these books, these are worth listening to, but not as good as I hoped. Sequentially, this comes after 'Interview' and 'Vampire Lestat.' This is my favorite of that trilogy and has the most complex characters and plot. If I could have given this a 3-1/2 stars, I would have. All in all, it was a curiously flat listen. A better narrator might have made a difference.

Forgotten the long philosophical diatribes. Why not? Because I'd forgotten how preachy the author is. I was a big big Anne Rice fan when the books originally come out.

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