I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ... (Fawcett Gold Medal) [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Romkey (Author)

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Series: Fawcett Gold Medal | Publication Date: July 1, 1990

From yesterday to a hundred years ago, he lives in the world and walks among us. He enjoys the finest things in life, including beautfiul women, well-aged wine, and the finest classical composers. He has no guilt -- he has no need of it. Neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, he is a man, he is a vampire. And this is his story....

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From yesterday to a hundred years ago, he lives in the world and walks among us. He enjoys the finest things in life, including beautfiul women, well-aged wine, and the finest classical composers. He has no guilt -- he has no need of it. Neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, he is a man, he is a vampire. And this is his story....

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (July 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449146383
• ISBN-13: 978-0449146385
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 5.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #88 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Vampires

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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the better Vampire books on the market, February 12, 2000

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Rebekah Sue Harris (West Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ... (Fawcett Gold Medal) (Mass Market Paperback)

After being referred to Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, I bought every vampire book I could find. I was sorely disappointed; most of them were garbage, and not worth the paper upon which they were printed.

NOT SO with I VAMPIRE. Romkey's characters bear similarities to Rice's, in that they are super-human but not supernatural, and that they are drawn to the arts. However, each author offers delightfully different characters to the genre.

If one is looking for a well-written vampire story geared towards the intelligent mind (and does not find this to be an oxymoron!), then I strongly recommend I VAMPIRE - to start. I plan to read all his books.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FIRST TIME READ, June 29, 2005

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Kimmy Mac "Kimmy" (So. California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ... (Fawcett Gold Medal) (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I have never read a Michael Romkey book before I am looking forward to reading more of his books. A friend gave me the book to read and I couldn't put it down. I like the fact that it was in a journal style of writing. Mr. Romkey made if very believeable that some of the historical figures that was in this book could in turn truelly be vampires. I am looking forward to reading the sequel.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent, but fades when compared to Interview, July 26, 2000

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This review is from: I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ... (Fawcett Gold Medal) (Mass Market Paperback)

Its not really fair to compare I, Vampire with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. The latter pretty much redefined and (pardon the pun) brought back from the dead the Vampire mythos; the former by comparison seems bland.

Buying I, Vampire I was hoping for a story similar to the Vampire Lestat - spanning the ages with rich sceneries/cities as a backdrop. What I got instead was a 'Sam Spade' type novel where boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy prevails against all and gets girl again.

Aside from being so formulaic, I found nearly all the characters including the protagonist to be incredibly shallow - this was a pity since one of the novel's 'twists' was to use famous historical characters (Mozart, Rasputin, Hitler etc) as vampires.

While Rasputin does get a background history, most everyone else just gets a name and a 'side' that they are fighting on.

The novel also uses a sequence similar to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, where the reader is usually left hanging at the end of a chapter and forced to catch up with a separate event/time in the next chapter. While this is supposed to evoke tension/excitement, I found it merely annoying.

Bottomline, an average story, with a fairly poor conclusion and fairly average characters. If not for the fact that this is a 'Vampire' book it'd hardly be worth reading.