Posted On: May 31, 2006 at 05:20 AM
Rock_Lestat17: My number one fave is Armand. no doubts. I just love how tragic and bittersweet his story is. I love how childlike and dependent he is. how fragile he seems yet how he is so powerful. It's like he is going to shatter from lonliness and he is just too adorable .
I like Marius with Armand XD....Don't hate me, but I just think they both love each other so much and they hurt when they are apart.
Of course I love Lestat and Louis and my next faves would have to be...that unamed violinist from Interview (don't ask why, but I become obsessed with the most random/minor characters) and Nicki. I'm not very fond of the female vampires, but I sympathize with Claudia and have recently come to like her a lot especially after Allsion's performance of her =) I also like Laurent...XD It's a personal joke with me as well. My name is Lauren and my friend started calling me Laurent...it's a long story...
I really really dislike/hate Daniel, Gabrielle, Akasha, Enkil(freaky!) and I will probably hate david and others, but I'm only up to QOTD
Don't trust Armand. It's okay to love him but know him for what he is. He's a cruel sadist. There was no reason for what he did to Nicolas and read The Vampire Armand carefully. He describes some things that logically could never have happened, such as his experiment on Claudia. Claudia, Madeleine and Louis were captured by the theatre vampires just before dawn. There would have been no time for such an elaborate adn horrific experiment. And he knew Claudia would never want htat, a tiny child's head sewn onto a little girl's body. There are too many contradictions in the later vampire Chronicles. But Armand is a liar and not to be trusted. He's also a sadist and would sooner torture you as he would hug you. He has no loyalty. He hunts his own kind after all. You can argue that Lestat does this now too but by Blood Canticle Lestat was pretty much the opposite of himself and I think Anne Rice was trying to make her fans lose interest in him.
Yes, Armand's story is tragic, a lot of sociopaths have tragic stories but that doesn't justify their cruelty. I have friends who love Armand for his sadism and cruelty. Understand him for what he is. And don't trust him. He can't even grasp a love of equals. That's why Lestat could never really love him. It always had to be a slave or master relationship for him and Lestat didn't want to be his master and could never be a slave. Armand can't understand a love of equals which means he doesn't really grasp love, for him it's domination and submission, this is one thing all versions of the Lestat musical got right.
It's strange that you could hate Daniel and love Armand when Armand loves Daniel so much.
And Gabrielle did nothing to earn your hate. When Lestat needed her, she came. She rescued Louis and Lestat from the concert and she gave Lestat the means to run away to Paris.
As for David, David was Lestat's only hope and only friend in Tale of the body thief. He saved Lestat's life.
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Recent mistakes in The Vampire Chronicles that I've noticed:
1. In The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the damned it's claimed that Marius' big mistake was making Armand a vampire before he was an adult, that he had done it because he was too impatient and felt terrible about it. But in The vampire Armand novel it's obvious that he had no other choice or Armand would have died from poisoning. Would he have rather Armand died than make him young? If it was to save his life why did he react as if he had done it out of impatience?
Also, Armand made it very clear to Lestat that Marius never, ever laid a hand on him to hurt him so what was with all those whipping scenes? Anne Rice only wrote that for those who could not bear the boy-vampire burning himself in Memnoch The Devil. He was dead and gone (Not that I hold much validity for the chronicles after the third installment). She only wrote that because people complained about him dying. She, herself,
never liked Armand. And the novel still doesn't explain how or why he lived.
2. The Vampire Companion book and any Vampire Chronicle after The Queen of the damned says that Lestat was either nineteen or twenty when he became a vampire. This cannot be possible because on the first page of The Early education and Adventures of The Vampire Lestat he says that it was the winter of his twenty-first-year that he went out to kill the wolves. A year later he goes to Paris and he stays there for about a year before he is forcibly made in a vampire. He should be at least twenty-three, not nineteen or twenty, which is actually younger than the year he went to kill the wolves. And there are some young Anne Rice fans who insist he was twenty because they'd rather he had been closer to their age and tell me that the twenty-first year could have been age twenty, it's his first year as a twenty-year-old, even if I humour this, he'd had to have been at least twenty-one when he was made a vampire.
But under the assumption that he was twenty-one when he went to kill the wolves,
he'd be around twenty-three. The only explanation is that Lestat himself is rounding down.
3. In Memnoch The Devil it was Lestat's left eye that got ripped out and was then given back. (Trust me, this is not something I'd forget or get confused- Believe me.) In Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle Anne says it's his right eye. The only explanation for this would be that Quinn has no sense of left or right and Lestat's extremely forgetful.
4. Pandora was nearly catatonic at the end of The Queen of the damned and by Pandora she's completely all right without any explaination as to what might have drawn her back to reality.
5. In Blackwood Farm Lestat, Quinn and Merrick all take a communion wafer and really do eat it. But it's supposed to be such a small amount of food that it doesn't effect them because it dissolves in the mouth. All food is supposed to be poison to a vampire. If because the food dissolves in the mouth it can be digested by Anne Rice's vampires all of a sudden that means they can eat chocolate, cream of wheat, life savers, altoids, and should be able to drink normal beverages, which contradicts all of her mythology. I don't care if the wafer is supposed to represent the body of Christ. It's not really magick. The Vampire Lestat novel tells us this. It's still just a wafer and therefor should be indigestible to the vampires.
6. The vampire's are becoming too saintly. Lestat's been through Heaven and Hell and all of creation, or at least the character thinks he has, we're supposed to assume he has and trust it. And Vittorio sees angels. Vittorio reminds me of the little boy in The Sixth sense. 'I see dead people. This isn't exactly a mistake but with all the spiritual content the angst from the vampire's uncertainty about the fabric of reality and the nature of good and evil his horribly compromised. A certain human-ness is gone. Anyway, didn't Anne hint once that she wanted to do a story where the government or a laboratory might learn about The vampires and capture them and try to figure them out or worse. That could have been a good novel, maybe even more believable than Memnoch The Devil. The novels are just getting too spiritual and history orientated and not so much story orientated. And People are now just buying them, no matter what happens in them, just because it has Anne
Rice's name attached to them and out of loyalty they feel they should love them, especially if Anne Rice says that Memnoch The Devil is her greatest work and that she is no longer happy with what she had done with The Queen of the damned- even though that novel had explained what happened in The Vampire Lestat, it told what became of the boy reporter, it united all the vampires, it explained where The vampires came from and it introduced The Talamasca- all and all I'd say that's pretty damned good!
7. Anne now said that Lestat's eyes were violet in Blackwood Farm, in Blood Canticle they're electric blue, in The vampire Lestat they're gray-blue. I wish she'd make up her mind and acknowledge these are different colours. Originally they were gray-blue and reflected violet very easily. This is mentioned on the very first page of The Vampire Lestat novel.
8. In Blackwood Farm, Quinn is terrified of Lestat because supposedly Lestat has been haunting New Orleans and killing all rogue fledglings he comes across. That was Armand, not Lestat. But somehow in The book Merrick Armand persuaded Lestat this must be done. Lestat must kill the rogues and rule breakers. Umm... He IS a rogue and rule breaker.
I'm aware that Armand (an annoyingly contrary and vicious boy-vampire) convinced Lestat that he must kill the rogue vampires in the novel Merrick but it makes no sense that Lestat would ever be convinced of anything by Armand! If you know anything of their history this would be obvious. Also Lestat's killing rogues and rule breakers, those who break his rules. It's an hypocrisy! He is a rogue and rule breaker! This is the vampire who wept for Baby Jenks, of all people (a vicious and extremely ignorant young vampire who gets killed in the novel The Queen of the damned), and yet now in The novel Blood
Canticle, Lestat just killed a handful of fledglings who LITERALLY worship him! That's not Lestat! And he's grown cold. When Mona asked him 'What if they beg for their lives?' he replied with 'They usually do.' Lestat used to at least have some compassion for his own. He's spared Armand's life and he's done a little of a lot worse than any of these rogues. We're talking about the ultimate rogue and rule breaker killing rogues and rule breakers!
Doesn't Anne Rice see the hypicricy here? Lestat's the one who wept for Baby Jenks of
all people...
And let's not forget that in Memnoch The Devil Lestat vowed never to raise a hand to anyone, human or vampire ever again.
9. In The Vampire Armand novel, Armand claims that he tried to 'help' Claudia by sewing her head on to the body of an adult female vampire. Is Armand really supposed to be that unintelligent that he'd think a tiny four-year-old head, sewn on to an adult body with black thread like a Frankenstein doll would be better than being trapped as a child? If he had done it it would have only been out of cruelty. Also in Interview with The vampire Louis saw
Claudia's body. Armand did say he had put the head back before burning her so
Louis never knew what he had done but Louis said her body was just like
charcoal, he'd have noticed if the head had been removed and put back, wouldn't he? If
Armand had so badly wounded Claudia she would not have been able to have
clutched to Madeline as she died the way she had. Being as weak as Claudia was, she
would have needed the time to heal to even move.
10 That's another little inconsistancy of Anne Rice's. Decapitation CAN kill a vampire. Ignoring the fact that Akasha was dying when she was decapitated and the only thing that saved the vampires was Mekare eating her heart and brain as the vampires wilted and lost consciousness around her- Anne Rice now has it (since The vampire Armand) that a vampire's decapitated head can be reatatched IF it's put back in place within a few seconds of it being removed. After all, a human head lives five seconds after it's chopped off. So I guess she twisted this scientific knowledge for vampire physiology. But seriously, could Armand sew a head onto a body in under five seconds? Seriously. That's a delicate opporation, even with preternatural speed, sewing flesh. She seriously goofed with this nonsense. Armand could not have conducted his experiment on Claudia in The Vampire Armand.
11. Armand could never have done the 'sewing Claudia's head on to an adult body that he discribes in The Vampire Armand. Louis, Madeline and Claudia were captured in the pre-dawn. There was little time for the mock trial and then sealing Louis in the wall, and shoving Claudia outside. Certainly not enough time for an elaborate torture to 'help' her. Armand would pass out at dawn.
12. In Tale of the Body thief and Memnoch The Devil Lestat claims that he had slept with many villagers by the time he was fifteen. Yet I could swear he was sixteen when he lost his virginity to the female actress in the troupe he had almost run away with. He never spoke of making love again in his autobiography but it was ambiguously implied what he and Nicki must have done together. I'm sure Lestat WISHES he had been that promiscuous as a mortal but it seems to me he had been very anti-social until he had gotten to Paris was able to truly be himself and let himself go. You saw what it took for him to make his ONLY friend, Nicolas. Also, in Memnoch The Devil Lestat said that many villagers came to the castle claiming he had impregnated their daughters. But in Tale of the Body Thief Lestat became very concerned that he might have accidentally impregnated that one woman. So I doubt he would have simply ignored it if he had gotten someone pregnant in his mortal life.
On the same note, in Memnoch The Devil, while in Hell Lestat had a vision of himself accidentally killing someone in a bar fight while drunk as a mortal. Considering Lestat's mortal obsession with mortality and goodness, somehow I doubt this would have happened without him telling us before. Also, it seems like Anne Rice is confusing him with Louis. Lestat never got into bar room brawls as a mortal. When he got drunk he got maudlin and sentimental, not violent, that's a different type of drinker all together.
13. Lestat's own mother wore men's pantaloons two hundred and twenty years ago. He liked eighties androgyny and was a rock star but in Blood Canticle he yells at Mona to change her dress because it's 'slutty'.
14. In Blood Canticle Lestat keeps praising The Pope and out right said The Pope can do no wrong because he is The Pope. And that even if the Pope does say something that isn't true it automatically becomes true, having happened in some form because the Pope said it did because God ordained that The Pope must always be right. What about the Pope who started the inquisition? Or how about the ones that said Jewish people are evil or the current one who says all rock music and Harry Potter are evil? Lestat would really agree with this? I don't think so! Lestat loves rock music!
Lestat questioned everything! He didn't even believe for sure there was an after-life in his 'autobiography' (The Vampire Lestat). What happened to the rebel
iconoclast who questioned everything and everyone?
Also Anne Rice claims Lestat's opinions are her own. So she feels The Pope can never be wrong yet Anne Rice is pro-gay marriage. The Pope is against gay marriage, Anne Rice is for it, but in her / Lestat's opinion The Pope can never be wrong?
15. What happened to that musician Lestat made into a vampire? And I don't mean Nicki here. I mean the musicain in Interview with the vampire, who was caught in the fire with Lestat as Louis and Claudia fled to Europe in the novel. Why is he never mentioned again by anyone?
16. Page 41 of my paper back edition, chapter 3 of The Early Education and adventures of The Vampire Lestat in The Vampire Lestat novel. It's in the bottom of the third paragraph.
'And now, after eight children, three living, five dead, she was dying. This was the end for her.' This clucludes for me that Lestat being the seventh son and the youngest to survive that one of these children had to have been a daughter. And considering Lestat only says he's the youngest son, it could have been a younger sister. And this contradicts anything later that said Gabrielle had seven children. Seven sons maybe but eight children.
In The Vampire Lestat, first page of Chapter 3 in The Early Education and Adventures of The Vampire Lestat, it's said that Gabrielle had eight children. Everyone always says she had seven. She had seven sons, eight children. This tells me that one was a little girl that did not survive, since her only surviving children are three sons. Also, supposedly each letter in Lestat's name is the first letter of his older brothers. If there are eight children that means there must have been an unmentioned sister. Anne Rice said Lestat was the seventh son, and at one point claimed his initails are each of his brothers first letters to their names. So this means the eighth in the 'three living, five dead' comment is a sister. Lestat had a younger sister we know nothing about.
17. Mistake in The queen of the damned novel. 'My autobiogrpahy was selling well among the dead and the undead.' The DEAD and The Undead, not the living and the undead. Did he mean the living people who read his book were doomed to die or did Casper buy a copy?
18. In Interview with the vampire The reporter was older than Louis in appearance. Louis was twenty-five. This means the reporter is at least twenty-six. Twelve-years-later in nineteen eighty-five the boy is made a vampire. He should be at least thirty-eight but The Queen of the damned novel says he's thirty-two.
19. Gretchen's Stigmata is historically inaccurate. Stigmata is when someone gets the wounds of Christ's crucifixion on their own body. The truth is, in Ancient Rome when they crucified slaves and thieves the nails went through the wrists, not the hands. The bones and flesh of the hands could not support the rest of the body and the hands would have torn and the body would have slumped down. The nails went through the wrists, right through the middle of the wrist, causing the nerves in the thumb to make the thumb collapse in on the palm. Crucifixions never were with nails through the hand. Someone like Anne Rice, with all her religious obsessions, should know this, that the image of the nails through the hands was a result of it simply being easier to replicate in art a thousand years ago. I notice this same mistake in the new movie about Christ's last days. In Memnoch The Devil Lestat observes that the nails go through the wrist, not the hands, as the classic and crucifixes often depict. Was Gretchen's stigmata psychologically induced? Mind ovet matter, belief effecting the physical body?
20. Louis was made the summer of 1791. He had to have been born in 1765 (Contradicting the companion book and websites) because his birthday is October fourth. If he was twenty-five and that October he would be twenty-six he had to have been born in 1765, otherwise he'd have been twenty-four when made a vampire, not to turn twenty-five for another four months. Louis said he was twenty-five when he was made a vampire so he had to have been born in 1765, because he was made a vampire in the summer of 1791 and his birthday isn't until October, if he was born in 1766 then he would not have been twenty-five yet.
21. Anne Rice used to claim that the name Lestat was a mistyping of LeStan since Lestat was based on Stan Rice. Then she claimed it was the first letter of each of Lestat's brothers names yet on the third paragraph of chapter three of The Vampire Lestat it said that Gabrielle had eight children, not seven. Was there a daughter? It so happens that the name Lestat is Old French according to some baby name books which means Gray sky (though some say red, this could be confusion because of the vampiric use of the name by Anne Rice).
22. In The Vampire Lestat, Lestat used a computer word procesor. In Tale of the Body thief Lestat hacked into a police computer data base to track his killers. Yet by Blood Canticle, twelve-years-later not only does he not know how to send an E-mail but he doesn't know what one is! And he's intimidated by technology, admits to this. This from a vampire who used pyrotechnics in his concert, loved synthesizers, video cameras, brightly coloured shampoo, television, movies and most especially eighties rock music? And since when does Lestat admit to fear of anything? It's almost like whoever wrote Blood Canticle never read The Vampire Lestat yet Anne Rice has the gaul to say Blood Canticle practically connects to The Vampire Lestat.
23. In Blood Canticle Lestat insults all Notherners saying a comment like 'He was from the South and Southerners know how to treat blacks. Not like intolerant yankees.' This not only implies that an African American can't be considered a Southerner but also that all people from the North are racist. Ummm... Lestat was involved with two girls from the North. Gretchen from Washington and Dora from New York. Oh, yes, and Akasha was African and 'his' little comment was also demeaning to Africans. Anne Rice told one of my friends she wrote that because of some racists she met while visiting the north while on tour for Memnoch The Devil. What does that have to do with Lestat's opinion? He didn't come across racists in his stay in New York.
24. Lestat feeds on killers who feel no remorse. Rowan Mayfair murdered her daughter because of what her father was and how she was concieved. Rowan considered her a freak even though the girl was saving her life and nursing her back to health. Rowan shot her three times. And even after this she still wanted a Taltos specimen (her INNOCENT daughter's species) to dissect. Yet somehow he falls in love with this woman in Blood Canticle and he's killing vampires who just happen to enter his territory. There's something wrong this this picture. It seems to me she'd be his ideal victim, not lover.
25. Anne Rice based Louis on herself, Lestat was based on Stan, Anne based Rowan on herself but by Blood Canticle she says she is the voice of Lestat. No wonder he's so changed! The Lestat we love was Stan Rice.
Drastic change in personality counts as an inconsistancy when it's abrupt and happens over night. She claims the personality change is a result of what happened in Memnoch The Devil. This isn't true. He was still rebelling against it, still behaving like himself. He wasn't even that bad in Blackwood Farm, which takes place a night before Blood Canticle. The change is literally over night.
26. In Memnoch The Devil Louis requires a magnifying glass to view the details of illustrations drawn by mortals. I know Louis is weakest of the vampires but he still is supposed to have eyes stronger than a mortal. What happened to all his talk of vampire eyes?
27. In Merrick Lestat said It requires 'that you take from me and that I give to you' when discribing a blood exchange to Louis. Now if you take from Lestat and he gives to you... That's the same thing! It only discribes the part where Louis drinks from him!
28. Personality inconsistancy: Marius went from the kindly father figure character to a whining, child-like character in Blood and Gold. Not to mention the S and M whippings in The Vampire Armand when in The Vampire Lestat Armand told Lestat Marius would never harm him. Now he's coming off as a pervert. Also he blames Lestat for Akasha rising. How could he? It was Akasha who told Lestat her name when Marius took Lestat to the island. It was Akasha who opened the tabernacle and planted the idea in his head to play Nicholas' violin for her. And it was Marius who had Lestat's music videos video taped for her to watch yet he blames Lestat for her rising? I can't believe he's become so illogical so quickly.
29. In Memnoch The Devil Lestat made a vow never to kill anyone, human or vampire, ever again. But by Blood Canticle he's developed Armand's personality traits in that he kills rogues and rule breakers who need guidance even when they beg for their lives. Anne Rice has forgotten this vow.
30. In The Vampire Lestat Marius said he met Pandora when she came to him, as a grown woman, recalling a past life of being a vampire and begging to be a vampire again. But by the book Pandora it's claimed that he knew her as a child and even tried to have her betrothed to him.
31. It's not exactly a mistake but in the Interview with the vampire movie Daniel (the reporter) Louis says that Daniel is older than him. So this means he has to be 25 or older. Yet in the novel The queen of the damned he's only 32, ten or so years after the Interview. I know it is possible he was 21 or 22 when the Interview took place but I just think he's older than that.
32. In Blood and Gold Marius claims vampires to be immune to dirt yet the Satanic vampires under Les Innocents in The Vampire Lestat were filthy and Lestat is quoted as saying Eleni would be pretty if she would be forced to stand undre a water fall to wash the dirt off of her. Also, Marius himself was filthy aftre being trapped in the ice in The queen of the damned novel. And Lestat was filthy when Marius pulled him out of the Earth in The Vampire Lestat novel.
I'd like to thank Kirsty0775 of The Internet movie data base for adding this mistake for me. I had known of it but let it slip my mind when writing the list.
33. In Blood and Gold Maharet takes the eyes of a fellow vampire yet in every chronicle befor this, for supposedly six-thousand-years she would never take the eyes of any vampire, thinking it too cruel and disloyal to do that to her own kind. There is really no explaination for this change of heart.
34. In Blood and gold we find out the chains that held Lestat in Memnoch The Devil had Maharet's hair woven into it. Are we really to believe just because she's the oldest vampire that her hair is indestructable? Wasn't it plausable enough that heavy chains held Lestat? Also if her hair is indestructable how did she cut it to weave it into the chains?
35. In The Vampire Lestat Armand says he was too young to know the name of his own country. By The Vampire Armand novel it's implied he was in his mid teens when Marius claimed him. Why the abrupt change?
36. Drastic personality changes in Marius. Up until about Tale of the Body thief we see Marius as the kindly father figure who called Lestat the damned creature. Yet in The Vampire Armand when re-told a story told to us in The Vampire Lestat it's implied that Marius physically whipped Armand and was into S and M with young boys. There is no such mention of this in the earlier books. Then by Blood and Gold he's a whining child in that he blames Lestat for things Lestat could not be accountable for. Marius is the one who took Lestat to the island. Akasha is the one who planted the idea in Lestat's head to play Nicki's violin for her. She opened the tabernacle for him. Then he, himself, was going to play Lestat's music videos for them and yet when Akasha rose to Lestat's music videos Marius blames Lestat. It was all Akasha's choosing. Why would the wise and patient Marius suddenly act like a child and not think logically? Why would his life in the past suddenly be described differently from The Vampire Armand on ward? He, like Lestat, and Maharet are basically behaving like their own opposites.
37. If older vampires turned to dust in Memnoch The Devil how did Louis survive going into the sun in Merrick without an infusion of more powerful blood to begin with?
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What I find most ironic about all of this is how Anne Rice claims her older books are flawed and her latest one is a 'masterpiece.' Hmmm.... One would hardly realize it by the fact that very few people actually tolerate those later chronicles, the first one was made into a movie, as was the third (if you could call it that) and the second is being made into a Broadway musical. But these are the flawed ones- the consistant ones- the ones that were not riddled in mistakes.
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Since Anne Rice claims Lestat of Blood Canticle and the novel itself is very close to the content of The Vampire Lestat allow me to make a proper comparison...
Look at the differences...
Early Lestat: Wept for witches burt at the stake becaue Church and state were connected making religious fears into laws.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he says chuch and state should not be seperated.
Early Lestat: (Memnoch The Devil) Lost his left eye
Later Lestat: (Blood Canticle / Blackwood Farm) It's his right eye...
Early Lestat: Helped create what is today Goth Culture.
Later Lestat: Following Goth trend and even refers to himself as a Goth... So much for his individuality and unwillingness to conform.
Early Lestat: Speaks like a cross between Sam Spade and a flatboatman in 1984
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he speaks like a Ninja Turtle...
Early Lestat: Food is poison to him.
Later Lestat: In Blackwood Farm he eats a communion wafer.
Early Lestat: Wanted to be a teaching brother but never really believed God was in those halls but rather believed in the goodness of the men there and the cleansliness and order of the place.
Later Lestat: Wants to be a Saint for religious reasions instead of actual ethical ones...
Early Lestat: Questioned everything.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle said The Pope can never be wrong. And this is odd because he represents Anne Rice's beliefs and The Pope is against gay marriage, Anne is pro-gay marriage. There have been Popes who said all Jewish people are evil and that the crucades were good and Mary Magdoline was a prostitute (The vatican only recenlty corrected this last one but a lot of people don't even know that she was only possessed of seven demons, not a prostitute.
Early Lestat: wrote on a computer word processor and hacked into a police data base in Tale of the body thief. He also used a computer in the San Francisco version of the Lestat musical.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he is afraid of computers and doesn't know how to send an E-mail.
Early Lestat: loved how people walk almost naked in the Southrn heat. And was basically a slut.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he chastises Mona for being slutty.
Early Lestat: was a rock star
Later Lestat: sang a country song composed by a homophobe and is a Dixie Chicks fan...
Early Lestat: was in love with a woman from Washington named Gretchen and a New Yorker named Dora and never spoke as humans as divided into races.
Later Lestat: says only Southerners know how to treat blacks and yankees are all racist (So I guess being black means you're not Southern or Northern?)
Early Lestat: 'Tell me how bad I am, it makes me feel so good.'
Later Lestat: 'I want to be a saint.' and 'I DON'T WANT TO BE BAD ANYMORE!'
Early Lestat: Felt pity even for Armand. (It's why he didn't decapitate him in The Vampire Lestat)
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he shouts at Mona to get off his property when she starts crying after a fight with him.
Early Lestat: Wept for people like Baby Jenks
Later Lestat: Not only kills his own kind that love him but even those that beg for their lives.
Early Lestat: Rogue and rule breaker
Later Lestat: Kills rogues and rule breakers
Early Lestat: Started poor and was content that way and know artists and musicians and actors who were poor, they were his friends.
Later Lestat: Considers poor people, and those in 'trailer parks' to be the bottom of the latter in humanity...
Early Lestat: A rock super star who publishes books.
Later Lestat: Forbids quinn from buiilding a website because of the exposure risk. (Uh, huh...)
Early Lestat: Fed on murderers who feel no remorse.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he is in love with Rowan who murdered her daughter who had been saving her life and still wants a live version of her daugher's species to dissect.
Early Lestat: Acts impulsively.
Later Lestat: Won't make Rowan a vampire because he is patient and it's 'wrong' when she has work that must be done as a mortal...
Early Lestat: Didn't mind his mother dressing as a man.
Later Lestat: Seems to hate it and apparently condemned her for it in The Vampire Lestat according to Mona. Umm... Where?
Early Lestat: Saw optimisn in a secular age of innocence and himself as an unnecessary evil in the world wanting to be good.
Later Lestat: Sees evil everywhere but in himself. (Frollo from Hunchback of NotreDame anyone?)
Early Lestat: was 'innocent' for his lack of forced beliefs that he did not use distorted truths to reinforce. - paraphrasing Marius
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he subscribed to a Catholic news letter and says The Pope is infailable.
Early Lestat: Believed in The Savage Garden
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle he renounces The Savage Garden and only believes in the maker.
Early Lestat: Said nothing justifies the suffering of a child
Later Lestat: Actually implied that Roger in Memnoch The Devil, when just a child, should have let The old captain have his way with him sexually.
Early Lestat: Remembered his mortal life viviedly and told us his first kill was the old man in Magnus's castle.
Later Lestat: It seems that, according to Memnoch, as a mortal he killed someone in a bar fight. Now considering Lestat's obsession with death when he was mortal wouldn't he have told us about this if it was true?
Early Lestat: In The Vampire Lestat he lost is virginity to an actress when he ran away with the troupe before his brothers dragged him home. Then he became anti-social until he met Nicki.
Later Lestat: In Memnoch The Devil he claimed that fathers came to the castle complaining that he got their daughters pregnant. Would Lestat really be indifferent to getting someone pregnant when he was concerned he might have gotten the waitress pregnant in Tale of the body thief? Seriously, with his obsession with goodness and the value of life that doesn't sound like him.
Early Lestat: Wanted to be an actor.
Later Lestat: In Blood Canticle has embraced a religion that condemns the theatre as being tained by The Devil.
It seems to me he lost the better faith, the faith in humanity and goodness and gained something cold and actually fundimentally meaningless. It also seems to me that what I'm discribing are direct opposites of character nature.
Staney Fannie and Darn Proud! 
