Does anyone esle out there miss Anne Rice?

[jurisfictionoperative]

or is it only me?

[jurisfictionoperative]

must be only me then!

[CheerfulYank]

I don't, never really got into her, but would be glad to discuss anyway if you're lonely/bored!

[EricNorthmansmistress]

I do! Since she stopped writing about vampires and started writing about Jesus...boring!

[Oilersgirl]

Yep me too! She was my fave hands down.

[blueshoes]

She is writing about Jesus now? She used to write women's erotic fiction under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure.

[EricNorthmansmistress]

hmm face

[gailforce1]

Never read anything by her - anyone recommend anything?

[EricNorthmansmistress]

Are you into vampire novels? If so, then the vampire chronicles are great, she wrote an awful lot of other vampire books around various characters, some were brilliant, some crap.

the mayfair witches books were brilliant too.

[expatinscotland]

Did she die?

[EricNorthmansmistress]

No, she got born again.....

[expatinscotland]

she's lucky she got a second chance with all that boozing and drugging she used to do!

[EricNorthmansmistress]

Excerpts from Anne's Profession of Faith
In 1998 I returned to the Catholic Church? I realized that the greatest thing I could do to show my complete love for Him was to consecrate my work to Him?to use any talent I had acquired as a writer, as a storyteller, as a novelist?for Him and for Him alone... Thence began my journey into intense Biblical study, intense historical research, and intense effort to write novels about the Jesus of Scripture, the Jesus of Faith, in His own vibrant First Century World... [16]

Sigh....................

[expatinscotland]

Oh. Okay.

[no comment]

I missed this!

I have to say, the opening scenes between Lestat and Louis are some of the most erotic scenes I've ever read even though there is no sex.

[jurisfictionoperative]

I might give the Jesus book a try, but I am really not inspired! I think the vampires and witches are fantastic! I loved the way that she amalgamated the two in the end! I am not into horror on tv, but I love the real gutwrenching ickiness she can write, the heads in jars in 'the witching hour'? Nearly made me vomit! There will never be another hero like lestat!

[jurisfictionoperative]

Eric, should have known you'd like Anne rice, being married to a vampire and all!

[EricNorthmansmistress]

We're not married darlink....he's just my lovveeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr

[jurisfictionoperative]

Sorry eric, I wasn't paying attention! In that case, you may have competition for him, he's gawjus!

[EricNorthmansmistress]

I don't mind, I'm vampire polyamorous..... I have lots of lovvveeerrrrrrsssssss, I think Eric has plenty to go round too......

[jurisfictionoperative]

Ooh good, send him round then!

[MNHubbie]

The Vampire books started well and then disappeared up their own bottoms imho but they recovered later when she found LeStat's voice again. I only found the Mayfair books recently and loved them.

I do find that the lore within the True Blood TV series seems to lean heavily on Rice, is that just me?

[Lucifera]

good grief, Anne Rice got religion? I'm astonished, having browsed her heavily SM-oriented erotic novels in my bookselling days. It just shows ... er ... something.

[CoteDAzur]

I read the first six vampire books. First few were great, others not so great. Mayfair witches' books were quite interesting, too.

The last Rice book I read was "Servant Of The Bones". A real suck-fest. I didn't bother with any of her books after that.

Did I miss anything?

[DandyDan]

She totally lost it when she got into writing about the Mayfair witches. They were useless and repetitive.

She lost it about the time of Memnoch the Paperweight. Anything written after that - rubbish. Esp. anything where Lestat has been replaced by pod-Lestat, in lurve with the horrendous girl.

Merrick, Blackwood Farm - terrible.

Her first four vamp chron books were good - that's it.