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Post by Velata on Nov 6, 2005 21:49:53 GMT -5
... May I...?
Ladies and Gentlemen of the literary bent, I bid you good evening.
The modern Queen of the Damned, Ms. Anne Rice, will be making an appearance in Toronto in the recent future. Here are the specifics.
In Person: Anne Rice
Event Date: 11/16/2005
6:00 pm
Place: World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street
An exclusive event! Come and meet Anne Rice as she signs copies of her new book Christ the Lord. Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ.
Signing Rules: Anne Rice will sign unlimited copies of Christ the Lord and one other book.
... Anyone in the CP community who has an interst in Ms. Rice's works, past or present, can consider about attending this event...
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Post by Seph on Nov 20, 2005 6:24:23 GMT -5
Noooo. GAH, I missed that post completely since I've been away lately.
*Sighs* Oh wells, a bit late now. Did you get her autograph?
And I still find it a bit unbelievable that she switched from writing gothic to something holy.
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Post by Advent Childhe on Nov 20, 2005 23:23:38 GMT -5
Greetings:
Gothic. A noire style. A play where every main character dies at the end. For me, the father of the "inner character."
Its not much of a Gothic story where all of the characters are Undead to begin with.
Holy. A higher, positive dvine presence. A sort of representation of all the undying good things that we want.
Christ, as a carpenter, is a mundane hero that gained a supra-mundane god-hood after death.
Anne Rice was the "Schizzney."
All Hail the Ram,
Advent Childhe,
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Post by Seph on Nov 20, 2005 23:38:16 GMT -5
*Grins* I think my point was made at any rates, with or without the proper terminology.
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Post by Velata on Nov 22, 2005 18:22:06 GMT -5
... May I...? I apologise for my late reply, due to some bandwidth problems I have had lately. Ah... nothing like the smell of fried computers in the middle of the night... And speaking of "the middle of the night..." A "gothic" genre does not entail the death of every main character in the play, and something "holy" may just be more than a representation of what we want. (Im)proper terminology aside... Yes, I did get Mme. Rice's autograph. I even got a little dedication on one of my books (1985, 1st ed. The Vampire Lestat). She seemed to be happy at where she is in life (and away from New Orleans...), and she seemed to be healthy despite a barrage of personal ills and familial tragedies that happened to her recently. Never fear, she might yet return again. She said so herself. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* "A writer write what s/he is passionate about." If there is one lesson I've learned from all my years taking English lessons, it's this. Growing up in New Orleans, Madame has always harbored an ineterest in everything that go bump in the night. It's something that ran in the family (her sister wrote a series of books on werewolves). When life and death became an obsession, Madame turned to vampires [Note: Interview with a Vampire was partially written as a grieving process for her daughter, Michelle, who passed away with leukemia when she was 5.] Something else happened to her life recently: perhaps old age finally set in, perhaps the underworld no longer holds a fascination for her after the last 30-odd years. But she's returned to Roman Catholicism, the religion she was born and raised in. I believe, this "born-again Christian" ferver is what drove her to write about Christ as a child. ... And... if it's any consolation, her books in this series will deal with some apocryphal chapters of the bible, which means it will still be different from the conventional "Christ" that we know of (the apocrypha also hints of the forbidden as well, hein?) Besides, if Christ was really the man who said "This is my body, and this is my blood. Do this [breaking bread and sharing wine] in rememberance of me." He can probably be considered as the greatest vampire figure the world has ever known...  |
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Post by Seph on Nov 23, 2005 0:54:13 GMT -5
*Laughs!!!* If I wasn't such an atheist on the topic, I think I might have to shout "Blasphemy!" for your comparison of Christ to a vampire. Either way, I have this feeling the results of her book will be very controversial. Given her fame, people will want to read her book and likely be very critical of it (religious writings usually are criticized thoroughly). If that's the case, depending also on her luck, this, rather than her vampire series, may be what will last through the ages.
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Post by Velata on Nov 27, 2005 3:06:02 GMT -5
... May I...?
This is certainly not the first time Madame has entered the realm of religion in her works. Some of her quasi-(sac)religious works of the past have been received mixed reviews. Some saw them as brilliant; others, down-right damnable.
Have you read Memnoch the Devil yet?
It might give you an idea.
The moment I'd done with the new book (probably over the Christmas break... very appropriate) I'll be able to give a better description and a better report.
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Post by Seph on Nov 27, 2005 3:26:58 GMT -5
.... regretably, I have not read most of her works, in fact, I can count on one hand the number of her works I have read, and still have fingers to spare. *sweatdrops* I believe I am more of a collector than a reader, unless it is a series I am fervently trying to pursue, like a said gentleman burglar.
At any rate, please, do give me your reviews on what you think of her new series. It sounds like it could be quite a controversial subject she chose to write on.
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