Angel Time--Anne Rice
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 think it's perfectly appropriate that a festival celebrating PKD is held in a place that has banned bicycles from most of its streets, or so one commented claimed.
ReplyDeleteDear Fred,
ReplyDeleteI'll go so far to say that I don't think there is an inappropriate place for such a festival. It's been long in the making and certainly as deserved as other festivals one hears about. (I'm think John Updike in this particular case.)
I'd just be a little leery of what such a festival might summon together. (The leery there is, as you might have guessed, a pun.)
shalom,
Steven
Steven,
ReplyDeleteMight give new meaning to that old John Denver song?
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteIt hadn't occurred to me, but yes indeed, a completely refurbished meaning.
Steven