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Anne Rice

Hmm, I didn't think they were THAT bad...

switching bodies would definatly be The Body Thief yeah. Egyptian paintings, could you be thinking of The Queen of the Damned, where the Egyptian statues of Akasha and Enkil, parents of all vampires, are kept by Marius but are then woken by Lestat?
 
Blood and gold,in romain time ,the caractere is an artiste,painting fresco...

I agree ,there is far worst,(far better to)she is inequal to,from one to the others
 
I agree, too. She isn't horrible, but I guess my tastes have changed (and were changing while I was still reading her.) I think the Witching Hour was my last book of hers I ever tried to read, and gave up half way through.

Niphredil said:
The Queen of the Damned, where the Egyptian statues of Akasha and Enkil, parents of all vampires, are kept by Marius but are then woken by Lestat?
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Ah! Thats it. That was the one, while I was going through the list of her books, that I was positive I didn't read.. Guess I was wrong! Thank you.

Blood and Gold is another one that I know I owned, but can't remember if i read it all the way through or not.. I guess thats what happens when you lose all your books, haha.. Does that one involve castration? And making their voice high pitched?

I think the Vampire Lestat was the one I liked most, and the one, if I ever wanted to re-read something by her, that I'd read again.
 
lfm said:
Ah! Thats it. That was the one, while I was going through the list of her books, that I was positive I didn't read.. Guess I was wrong! Thank you.
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You know now you mention it I think the same incident may be included in The Vampire Lestat, so you may have been right :).

Personally I think Anne Rice is actually worth reading, at least the original three...as trashy as she can be, those first three actually are a pretty good introduction to not only specifically gothic, but more classic, novels, but the gothic element in much classic literature that wouldn't normally be considered such. I'm always coming across bits, especially of Renaissance drama, that I recognise from my early reading of Anne Rice, and not just Shakespeare though he is extensivly quoted. Webster is also in there quite a bit.
 
I love the first four books of the Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Theif), personally think they're magnificent!

I read Memnoch the Devil, but (at the time) I was disappointed with it when I finished it. Now that I'm a couple of years older, I'd like to give it another chance (I've found that I've enjoyed books that I didn't originally care too much for when I read them with a more mature mind).

I never gave The Vampire Armand a chance because I used to hate that character.

I'd like to resume collecting Anne Rice's Vampire books and get the witch ones as well (my mother highly praised the witch ones).

However, I'll skip the Jesus ones since I'm not into religious stuff (which is probably why I didn't care too much for Memnoch the Devil).
 
HAS ANYONE READ HER 3rd I think book CRY TO HEAVEN? IT WAS PUBLISHED SOMEWHERE ABOUT 1982.
A BIT ABOUT THIS BOOK
Anne Rice demonstrates her power to enthrall as she makes real for us the exalted and fearful life of an extraordinary society--the 18thC world of the castrati, the lives of the little boys who at age six were castrated so their vioces would remain unchanged, the male sopranos whose glorious voices, unmatched by any singers since their time, brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe. This is a novel that charms, shocks, and moves us by its portrayal of passionate and fascinating lives, by its re-creation of a strange and exotic moment in history--and by the ways in which it considers, and adds resonance to, our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine. It is a mesmerizing feat of storytelling.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Or has anyone read her erotica/pornographic works she writes under the pseudonym Anne Rampling, and as A. N. Roquelaure fashioned the ultimate subversion of a beloved fairy tale. Awakened not by a kiss but by sexual initiation, her Sleeping Beauty becomes a sado‐masochistic sex slave in the pornographic Sleeping Beauty Novels (1982–5; The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release). Her self‐proclaimed ‘Disneyland of S & M’ is meant to be a psychological portrait of dominance and submission, sexuality and spirituality.

I read CLAMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY with a face group in the early 1980s and while we were a very open minded group the book was gruesome in many ways. Since we were feminists we were taken aback by the sliming of SLEEPING BEAUTY which as fairytales go is not the worst of the genre. We did have some good laughs at that meeting though.

Bibliography
The Roquelaure Reader: A Companion to Anne Rice's Erotica (1996).
 
I tried reading The Vampire Chronicles and a few other books, i.e. Servant of the Bones, but could never get into them. Yet I found the The Mummy on the used shelf at a small bookshop near my home, and I discover that my predilection for Egyptology overwhelms any reason or previous misgivings that I may have had about her to the point that I wanted to read this book.

I'm still not very far into it right now since I've just started, but I do like it from what I have read. I wonder if it's possible that I may have found an Anne Rice novel that I enjoy reading.
 
Rice declared on her Facebook account that she is "an outsider" in the Christian community:

I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life.

Rice affirmed that though she has decided to leave the Christian institution, she "remain committed to Christ as always."
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Sounds more like she's denouncing certain extreme sects of Christianity than the faith itself, and some smart editor put a good headline on it.
 
Well yes...but not the religious part of it. I won't go into that portion of the topic. I do not want another Tree thread on my hands.
 
AquaBlue said:
Well yes...but not the religious part of it. I won't go into that portion of the topic. I do not want another Tree thread on my hands.
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Ummm, yes you did. In fact, your thread title was Anne Rice renounces Christianity!.
 
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