I came to this book, and the series, after watching the movie. That being said, how in the world did this get off the ground and transformed into a brilliant screenplay. The book itself is long but comparable to Stoker length; however, in no way adds or builds on the mystic of vampirism. In the end it became a cumbersome task to finish the book and I only continued on to Lestat and Queen because I had no other gothic prose to read at the time. I do not recommend to anyone who enjoys good literature because this is simply vampire pulp.