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...
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ReplyDeleteI haven't read it and really had no intention of reading it, but now my curiosity is aroused.
I do remember reading one of the "Penrod" books many years ago when I was a child. I think it was called _Penrod and Sam_, but I wouldn't swear to it. I guess I was too young to pick up on the racism at that time, or it was so long ago that I forgot it.
That's quite a challenge that he has embarked upon. Perhaps if I ever find that my TBR bookcase has an empty shelf or two, I might consider it. One question would be, should I read all of them, or just the ones that I havn't read yet?