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 I've seen some of those books on a list of the most harmful books ever written!
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Dear Dylan,
ReplyDeleteAh, but there are some who would put the Bible on that latter list. (Not that I agree, belf the appearance of harm can be a product of one's bias rather than the work itself)on the other hand, it could be a very direct and intended effect of the work.
Shalom,
Steven
I think that "Enchantment" book on the uses of fairy tales looks especially interesting. Downloaded the beginning of it on Kindle.
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