Posted on 12/02/2005 2:26:55 PM PST by NYer
A young girl plays in the streets of New Orleans. Around her, gnarled oaks drip with Spanish moss, guarding crumbling mansions where ghosts are said to walk. She clutches the hand of her father, Howard, as she visits the aboveground crypts of Lafayette Cemetery, tracing with her fingertips the names of those who died from yellow fever. In her mind, she's making up stories. A whisper of corruption mingles with historical beauty. Voodoo lingers, despite Christianity's presence. The light and the dark coexist, shadows imprinted on sunlight.
Today, novelist Anne O'Brien Rice's darkly themed books have sold more than 75 million copies. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire (1976, adapted as a movie in 1994), has sold more than 8 million copies. Rice has also written historical novels, as well as pornography and erotica under the names "A. N. Roquelaure" and "Anne Rampling." Her books are widely assigned in high school and college English and philosophy classes.
Last summer, Knopf, her publisher, stunned the literary world with its announcement of Rice's newest volume: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, a novel about Jesus' life at age 7.
"This book means more to me than anything I've ever done," Rice told Christianity Today from her home in La Jolla, California. "I'm not offering agnostic explanations. He is real. He worked miracles. He is the Son of God! And there is so much more to write."
(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...
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Troxler assured her the answer was yes. Rice went to see a priest, to whom she made her confession for two hours. She discussed her writing in depth, her personal failings, and her hopes for a better life. Although her husband Stan's atheism had not changed, he readily agreed to be remarried in the Catholic church.
"Jesus the Undead" has a certain appeal; on the other hand, if Jesus were an Anne Rice character, he'd still be talking.
18:11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
18:12. What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?
18:13. And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.
10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures.
10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.
10:11. I am the good shepherd.
I'm not a Biblical literalist, but occasionally I am surprised to discover a previously unnoticed (by me) literal truth: He is the good shepherd, and He *does* go to seek the one sheep that is gone astray.
How amazing and wonderful that the woman who penned all that black evil is now back in the fold.
October 6, 2005
PROFOUND THANKS TO PRESIDENT CLINTON FOR HIS WORK IN THE SOUTH
It fills me with relief and hope to see President Clinton working so hard with the survivors of the storm. This man emanates compassion and understanding. Let me express my dream here that he will remain actively involved in helping the gulf coast come back. He is a brilliant and insightful man, full of love for his fellow Americans, and his words are a constant inspiration. Thank you, President Clinton. Please, please stay with the South and help it rebuild.
With love, Anne Rice.
http://www.annerice.com/nu_katrina.htm
Gag me..........
She's still pretty to the left...I check her site every now and then...
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Interesting. Thanks.
Ping for later
Lol
I saw her on the Bill O'Reilly show the other night. It seems like she just made a decision to go back to the Catholic Church.
bumpus ad summum
Very interesting. This has been discussed here, probably around a month ago. Anne Rice is an excellent writer, and if she has decided to go back to the Church, good for her!
Did any of you see her interview on O'Reilly? It was excellent.
What part of Christ's words do not you understand?
"This is my body."
"This is my blood."
"Do this in remembrance of me."
Straight from the Gospels...............please answer my question.
Bump for later.
Plus she is not writing books in a Christian vein.
I've read the book and it is a great read. She takes what is known from the Bible and weaves what could have been.
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