[aft_lizard]

she still is a far out leftist who thinks homosexuality and the like is ok.

Plus this has been posted a few times already.

[Williams]

It's my impression she's a bit of a kook, maybe a very intelligent one. I'm Catholic, but a study of the history of the early Church, and of Judaism, certainly offers reasons why the Jews and Christians survived. Rice has "discovered" this would have been impossible and the explanation is that Christ rose from the dead. In a sense, because the Christian doctrine of life after death certainly was its biggest selling point.

Note she became a lapsed Catholic and wrote her dark novels after attending a university. She claims existentialism and other philosophies had been "denied" to her as a Catholic. Funny, but as a Catholic I've always been interested in other philosophies and religions. No one was "denying" her anything.

[lawgirl]

Regardless of her personal and political views, I will rejoice that she has returned to God and I hope she has rediscovered the peace, forgiveness and unconditional love that accompany a walk with Christ.

[John Will]

Is she in eternal angst over the descion?
I have to put up with the "Ann Rice good angsty mcangst vampire" when playing RPGs.

[Calusa]

I've read and enjoyed almost everything she ever wrote. I got to where I'd look forward to a nice, horrific Ann Rice read every year to get me through the year end festivities.
In the absence of a new Ann Rice novel last Christmas I read a book my Mom had asked me for about a writer's searching for the route of the Sojourn into Egypt. The theme is a new interest in the fields of tourism and scholarship in tracing the route followed by the Holy Family. One thread I could see that might pique and inspire her novelistic interest is that some of the sites and apocryphal writings involved are extensions of Pharaonic Religion that have survived and syncretized into the present through the Coptic Church and currently languish under the thumb of Islam. I just hope that having come to terms finally with the loss of her baby daughter as many as 35 years ago and having returned to the Fold, she has not lost her absolute genius for keeping me on the edge of my seat all night in the throes of primeval terror.

[ClearBlueSky]

The woman is SERIOUSLY whacked. Everyone in New Orleans knows she's a weirdo of the first order- and that's saying a lot, considering how much it takes to be labeled a 'weirdo' in these parts.
My opinion- she's made a fortune with Satan, and her wallowing in the dark, evil of vampires. Now she wants to make a fortune off of Jesus.
Yeah- right. Has she thrown away her coffin?
She's like the serial killers who 'find' Jesus in prison. How convenient!