Posted on 05/07/2005 1:12:28 PM PDT by The_Republican
NEW YORK - Vampires are usually her passion, but Anne Rice is getting biblical in her next book, due out in November from publisher Random House. "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" will tell the story of Jesus' early years in his own words.
Excerpts of a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review copies of the book this summer are published in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine.
"For over 10 years I've wanted to do this book — Jesus in his own words," Rice writes. "For five years, I've been obsessed with how to do it, and for the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else."
Rice, who has moved from New Orleans to San Diego, brought the undead back to life in the 1970s with "Interview With the Vampire."
"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, `This is my body. This is my blood.' No, I can't work that magnificent Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form a story, and that story is Christ The Lord."
Most all of her books are good.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Well as much as I like reading her work I do not want her to go there, she is a die hard liberal and is obsessed with Homosexuality. Wanna bet she tries to turn Jesus into a rainbow warrior?
My Concern exactly...
How utterly apocryphal.
Well, in "Memnoch the Devil" Lestat was transported back in time and invited by Christ to "take a sip" from His neck as he was walking up toward Calvary - a moving moment for Lestat. Sacriligious perhaps, but I like her Vampire Chronicles/books.
Yep, Rice is a Catholic. I'm not sure if she's a convert or someone who returned home as an adult.
or an apostate who wants to lay a religious foundation for the Democrats to use in 2008.
She has a poll on her website that smells like trouble brewing.
Do you think a novelist should try to play a meaningful role in politics?
http://www.annerice.com/poll.htm
That should be interesting........not long ago I read her Sleeping Beauty Trilogy. There's not telling what she'd have Jesus doing!!
I don't think you'll need to bother looking for the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur on this book. Ms. Rice is a very talented writer, and from her works I'd expect she has an attraction to Catholic things, but I'd also be shocked beyond belief to learn she was an orthodox Catholic, given what I've read of her.
patent
and the Essenes ???
I liked her first book, Interview with a Vampire, written during the last year of her daughter's life. The 12-year-old died of Lukemia. Rather a touching chain of events, to see her child's body destroying itself, writing about vampires who destroy.
But then she lost her mind.
The rest of her books are overblown fantasies. Reading them was like OD-ing on chocolates filled with madiera and topped with sugar orchids. In other words, they were disgusting. And they were responsible to some extent for the "Goth" craze and other negative events.
Her Jesus book will be blasphemy from cover to cover. She revels in being a bad influence on other people's children. Nasty woman.
Kind of presumptuous to say your words are Jesus's words.
I agree with most of you comment except her work. I find her work tedious, but then again I find Stephen King's work equally tedious. I guess it's just not my taste.
Well she believes in the Real Presence unlike some other "Catholics"
And your point?
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