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...alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal con man whose extraordinary psychic powers let him cheat the vampire out of his demonic, enormously powerful body...
...plot: Lestat, in a male human body, charges about the world with his mortal friend David Talbot, trying to reclaim his vampire body. As usual, author Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident, in this case, showing how painfully uncomfortable it is for the con man, Lestat and finally Talbot to be stumbling about in the wrong bodies. Of course there are a couple of breathless, will-he-or-won't-he subtexts. Will Talbot and Lestat make love? And -- the same theme restated -- will Talbot let Lestat turn him into a vampire? It shouldn...
According to Rooney, Williams, 29, was arrested at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when he allegedly attempted to con two students into giving him money out of a Holyoke Center bank...
...those incidents, the con artists also bilkedtheir victims out of hundreds of dollars...
Rooney asked students to get the license platenumber of the car if approached by the con artistsand to report the incident immediately