Review copy received 11/04/09 From the time of its announcement, I had been looking forward to this new book by Anne Rice. As I say in every review, I am not a die-hard Anne Rice fan. I found Interview with a Vampire interesting and intriguing, but in hindsight, must lay much of the responsibility of the current vampire as victim and love-object obsession at its feet. After that, I had no patience with her writing until Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. In that book I observed a kind of control and authorial voice that I had not seen in any of the books I had sampled since Interview . So too with Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Perhaps because of the subject matter, perhaps for other reasons, these two books seemed to witness a level of control of language and story that the other books did not. Gone were messy florid passages that lavished two, three, four paragraphs on the description of the lace and flounce of a jabot. These new books were sp...
I used to go to Borders regularly because it had the best selection of new books, CDs, and DVDs around. But, now I haven't been in a Borders for several years because its inventory is no longer the best in town. B&N, although not having a large selection outside of the best sellers, is still better now than Borders.
ReplyDeleteThere's an independent bookstore still around, although probably not for much longer, that specializes in mysteries, which I visit regularly.
One comment on the article--that looks like a shift from a merchandising focus to a service focus.
ReplyDeleteFew large corporations are flexible enough to change course in a short period of time.
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteTo your last comment--true--but when you're in a commodities market, one of the things that markets your commodities are the services that you layer around it. Many companies are feeling this painful crunch in business today.
Shalom,
Steven