I Miss Anne Rice
I’ve been shocked to see that every bookstore with the exception of used outlets, do not carry any past Anne Rice works. I know that she made the jump back to Catholicism back in early 2005 denouncing the “Vampire Chronicles” and witch stories as writings against God.
From the moment she was accepted back into Catholicism, she would only write for the Lord. She will now follow the life of Jesus in a trilogy of books.
*sighs*
While I applaud her as she finds her faith, I fear for people who lose part of themselves in religion. I understand that embracing the light can be a great comfort, but why must you give up who you’ve been in order to be who you are.
Anne was not an evil woman. She was no prostitute, murderer, or convict. She was not a lowlife of society that would need to be cleaned to be converted. She did nothing wrong by supplying readers with entertaining stories. I guess if she feels the story of Jesus is worth the re-telling, I can’t fault her. I just wish she wouldn’t have discarded some of her most brilliant work as evil trash.
I do miss the cheeky and sensual woman who gave me means of escape, but I can not fault her for her choices.
I just miss her.
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Maybe its her way of making up for writing all of those porn novels under the name Ann Ramplin. I do agree with you tho The Vampire Chronicles are her Legacy.
Posted by: badfun | August 18th, 2007 22:24
I COMPLETELY agree!! My Anne Rice shelf will tip over on me if I attempt to put one of her Jesus books there with the rest of them.
Posted by: Russ | August 20th, 2007 19:58
Psh! Catholic girls were the ones I insisted on dating. They always did bad things (yay) because they could repent later. But I digress. Anne Rice can afford to do this (literally). I seriously doubt that she’ll be turning away any of those checks in the future that came from her “witchcraft” books.
Besides, my guess is that with the literary name behind her, her “catholic” books will sell double what her vampire ones did. I say shes doing it more for the money and public image than she is for what’s in her heart.
Posted by: Damian | August 21st, 2007 11:21
Born Again’s are the worst…
The Jebus book was ok though. Out of Egypt.
Just kept waiting for Marius or the Mummy to walk by
Posted by: ed | August 21st, 2007 18:04
Yeah, I’m thinking I’m going to pass on the Jebus book. I’m struggling enough being brought up Catholic and finding my faith as it is.
I don’t need any MORE guilt.
Posted by: Kate | August 21st, 2007 19:29
It’s not like that.
It’s jebus as a kid, with ’super powers’ and dealing with them.
It reads more like a comic book/sci fi… or what I picture Heroes to be.
Not her best work, but not bad or not a hammer to the head
Posted by: ed | August 23rd, 2007 05:37