Introduction!

[juneaurelie]

Hi fellow VC fans! I'm so glad to have found this group! In fact I joined lj just to become a member of this place (so really hope you'll keep me :). I first joined lj way long ago in 1999 (when I first read the VC) and was a member for a few years but eventually some of the drama and also the idea of having too much personal info out there drove

Comments

[pandorasblog]

I'm always very torn between TVL and QotD, favourites-wise. There's always one just edging ahead of the other, and right now it's QotD. :D

I understand your distaste for David - I like the character who shows through under the stereotype of an upper-crust English gentleman, but like anything else, it'd be better if the stereotype wasn't there in the first place. You won't have encountered him because you stopped halfway through Blackwood Farm, but there's a chap (definitely a 'chap') by the name of Stirling Oliver in there who's a classic example of the breed: Talamascan, frightfully awfully British, and a little too blase about vampires.

I suspect he had to be brought in because she'd killed off Aaron Lightner by that time, and of course David was well clear of the Talamasca by then...

[pointedulac]

I suspect, like most characters that book, Stirling was David Talbot with a name tag that read Stirling. Except David wasn't entirely blase about vampires until after he and Lestat became something like friends (ie: Lestat kept trying to take off his tweed if you know what I mean, and I think you do).

[pandorasblog]

I think I do. And I was honestly surprised when David didn't put out by the end of the book... :P

[pointedulac]

I KNOW. How does someome resist Lestat but fall all over himself over Merrique and Armand?

Granted, Armand is like living sex, but nonetheless...

[pandorasblog]

I was going to say that with Lestat it was A Matter Of Principle, but then that doesn't reconcile well with the Merrick situation. No, I think that his resisting Lestat can only be explained by his fear that if he gave in re: sex, he'd give in on the matter about which he really feared capitulating: being made a vampire.

But yes, that was nearly a very interesting counterbalance to Lestat's hetero adventures elsewhere in the book...

[juneaurelie]

LOL, I so completely agree! Much as I'm not a big fan of David, I really did want him to give in... both re: the sex as well as re: the Dark Gift. I like your analogy very much; that David probably felt that giving in when it came to sex would also break down his resistance to accepting the Dark Gift from Lestat. That totally makes sense to me.