Comments on: The Vampire, the Church Lady, and the Wardrobe (repost) https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/ Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Connie https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522622 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:29:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522622 I only have time to jot a quick post. Too bad too. I haven’t enjoyed an article like this in some time. First, Anne Rice is my favorite author. I have not read any of her Christian works yet. I would be inclined to though just to see if I still enjoy her as a writer. I did endure Violin all the way through the end but after wondered why. I thought about giving up many times. The Mummy is very good and one of my favorites also. I wished many times that she would produce a second but she never did. It could have been a great series. I too hopes Joan enjoys Lestat. 😉

]]> By: Mike Hanson-Haubrich https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522621 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:08:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522621 I wonder if Joan would enjoy “Jesus, The Missing Years.”

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522620 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:19:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522620 I always thought they thump the bible as we see the televangelists do – pick up the bible, pat or knock on the cover and say something about “The Truth”. Bible humping on the other hand just sounds so … gay.

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522619 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:25:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522619 I actually gave up on the Vampire chronicles after…Fuck, I don’t even know. It was really kind of pointless to me after they killed the first. I tried Violin and The Mayfair Witches and just couldn’t do it. Her erotica rather left me wanting as well, though that is partly due to having very particular standards for written erotica.

I will take your suggestion about Mummy, though it is tough given my failed attempts at other Rice novels.

If you are looking for fun things to add to ye olde reading list, Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos is big fun. It blends a lot of very interesting ideas that slowly unfold unpredictable ways. Admittedly, being a fan of Keats probably lends a small bias to my opinion, but not much.

The basic premise is that humans live on thousands of worlds that are connected by instant transportation. Human governance is heavily augmented by artificial intelligences. Almost nothing you think you know about the Cantos universe at the end of the first novel is actually true. I would tell you more about them, but this is a series that definitely would be considerably less fun if you know much about it. I also have to admit that there are points where it meanders rather more than I would prefer, but not nearly to the extent Tolkien or Stephen King drag shit out.*

* I don’t mind long forays into interesting ideas or relevant details – it is taking too much time describing the landscape that irritates me.

]]> By: Charles Sullivan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522618 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:21:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522618 Rice’s case has become rather interesting recently. As Albatross says above, Rice did say “I quit being a Christian.” However, she claims that she is still “committed to Christ.”

But she did say this noteworthy bit:
“I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life.”

]]> By: TerryW https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522617 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:15:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522617 Hee: “”You should read some of her other books. They’re fun.””

You naughty man! I’d love to be a fly on the wall as she read her “A.N. Roquelaure” Beauty books.

]]> By: steve https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522616 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:32:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522616 Actually, HarMar does have one “store” (the barber shop) that only opens to the outside. It took me the longest time to find the place because I was looking from the inside.

I read the first 4 or 5 Vampire Chronicles books and enjoyed them. I always found the “sexual but never having sex” aspect of the vampires kind of off though. I prefer the True Blood style where vampires are overtly sexual. Or not. Their choice.

]]> By: momkat https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522615 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:28:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522615 Yeah, Cry to Heaven would have definitely been swoon-inducing for Joan. Sensual as anything, but heart-breaking.

]]> By: wrpd https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522614 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:49:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522614 Never use the words “men’s room” and “blown” in the same sentence.

]]> By: Mark F. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522613 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:34:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/31/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an-1/#comment-522613 I used to be a big Anne Rice fan. After a time, her stuff just didn’t do it for me. I stopped reading after she wrote Violin (which I couldn’t bring myself to finish).

The Mummy was a great book (I wouldn’t say it’s her best). My wife and I both consider it a romance novel more than anything else. We both wish she would have written a follow-up to it. It would have made a pretty good movie too.

The AR book you really should have pushed on The Church Lady was Cry to Heaven. She would have definitely gotten the vapors over that one.

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