The Case for Chaos
Art after Children--a wonderful view from inside
Once again Books Inq. to whom I am much indebted today.
Once again Books Inq. to whom I am much indebted today.
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...
Great article. I loved Millions. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteEmily,
ReplyDeleteI loved it as well--I am deeply indebted to Frank Wilson of Books Inq. who has so many very good things to read.
Thank you for taking the time to encourage my blog theft! (Actually, I use the blog to note things I want to read more carefully, more thoroughly, or once again after the first read--so I think of it less as theft and more as repository.)
shalom,
Steven