Anne Rice on Facebook

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 8/17/13 at 2:50pm

Anyone else a fan? She doesn't usually post much, except lately she's been sharing Amazon book reviews, both negative and positive. It's a little weird. Her comments are neutral, but I've never seen a writer call out reviewers like this.
Amazon reivew for The Witching Hour

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/17/13 at 10:38pm

She's an amazing woman.

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 8/17/13 at 11:54pm

I haven't read too many of her books yet (just Interview with the Vampire and Cry to Heaven), but I follow her and I always find her posts interesting, along with the debates that follow.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 3:22am

Have you read-Beauty's Punishment,The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and Beauty's Release by A.N.Roquelaure[Anne Rice]? Sleeping Beauty was NOT woken with a kiss.An amazing journey into 'elegant erotica'.Maybe if you venture too far 'Into the Woods' then this is what you will find[hopefully].

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 6:20am

I find Ann's "erotica"over wrought. From Cry To Heaven on. The woman needs a good vibrator.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 6:42am

When I went searching for these books over 20 years ago in a London bookstore,the sales assistant just pointed and said 'over there'-think she thought she would somehow be contaminated if she touched these books.My mind doesn't recall as well now but if Cry to Heaven was about the castrati[?} then that is amongst my favourite.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 6:57am

She's moonbat crazy, but a compelling author in a her overwrought, bodice-ripping kind of way.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 4:41pm

Yes, those erotica books were a bit much, IMO. I think the 50 Shades series is a little more my speed.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 6:16pm

Fifty Shades of Grey was written like some especially naive preteen's idea of B&D/S&M. I think that series was quite possibly the worst writing I ever read. Why did I read them, you may well ask? I was trapped somewhere for a couple days with literally nothing else to read. No power, no phone, no internet, no nothing. It was a special kind of hell. Had there been a kitchen, I sooner would have read the ingredients on the cans and boxes.

At least Anne knows what she was talking about, even if it was a tad over the top and intense.

No offense, Stockard.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 6:20pm

Cry To Heaven was perhaps her best work. Laid ground for the Vampire Chronicles.

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 7:42pm

Yay, there are other people who like Cry to Heaven! I was beginning to think I was the only one.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 7:50pm

None taken, ghostlight! I just thought the Anne Rice books were over the top. Of course I was only about 20 when I read them.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/18/13 at 11:33pm

Thank you for helping me remember the wonderful hours spent reading this amazing woman[needs to be a little crazy to think up all these plot lines].Think I will go back to the beginning with Interview and see how far I get.She lost me with Christ the Lord series but The Mayfair Witches and The Feast of all Saints had me all the way.She must be a little disappointed with this new wave of vampires that she hasn't been 'rediscovered'.

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 1:07am

Charlaine Harris has paid homage to Anne Rice in various interviews, noting how groundbreaking Interview with the Vampire was when it was first published and how vampires would not be accepted as popular lit today without that one novel. So there's at least one current writer who's riding the vampire wave giving credit where credit is due.

But yeah, it does seem odd that Anne Rice's publishers haven't tried to re-release her vampire books with new covers and whatnot. It seems like a no-brainer to me.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 2:41am

OperaBWL-thank you for Charlaine Harris-I just checked with my library and they have many of her books so I am off to discover a new author-[to me anyways].

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 2:58am

I do not believe that today's fascination with Vampires pivots on Rice's books. There is something very visceral about the Vampire mythology that plays very heavy on the human psyche. Bella Legousi made an entire career of it as did Christopher Lee.
The sensual nature of the vampire myth, the biting of the neck, strikes a very sensual chord. Being creatures of the night, also plays on our dark hidden appetites.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 3:35am

True SNAFU but films are a visual medium and books[my one and only entry to Vampires was with Anne Rice] allows your imagination to go wherever it pleases,not where the camera directs you.I loved that Anne Rices' Vampires were world travellers and her descriptions of places and peoples is what drew me into her world[plus a little bit of homo.lust helped of course].

[BWF]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 7:16am

When I first read A Cry to Heaven over twenty five years ago I loved it. Memnoch the Devil was amazing to.

[KelRel]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:12am

My mother let me watch Interview with the Vampire and begin reading the books when I was 9 or 10. Needless to say she didn't pre-read or do any research into what was in those books. I poured through the Vampire Chronicles and really loved them. I let a friend borrow them in high school and never got them back. Oddly I never felt the need to repurchase them even though I loved them. It might be time to start reading them again.