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[apocalypsos]

Vampires are usually her passion, but Anne Rice is getting biblical in her next book, due out in November from publisher Random House. "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" will tell the story of Jesus' early years in his own words.

"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, `This is my body. This is my blood.' No, I can't work that magnificent Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form a story, and that story is Christ The Lord."

BWAHAHAHAHAHA. I think if she's going to be blasphemous, she should go all out and do it in diary form. "Dear Diary, today I found out my father is God. If Mom thinks I'm cleaning my room after this, she's out of her goddamn fucking mind."

Comments

[ruuger]

I thought she believed Lestat was her husband? Or did that happen only after her real husband died?

And once again I'm feeling pretty glad I stopped reading her books after Queen of the Damned.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading Anne Rice when one of her vampire characters went to a spot in an abandoned house where a young girl had been killed and felt all sad and shit. (This was the start to some damned book). I like my vampires who giggle at the thought of a dead young girl and they wonder how they can do it better next time. Then they punch out a nun.

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to Jessie?

She was not a vampire at the start of the book. She was turned about...three-fourth into Queen of the Damned.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the details. I was in the library, picked up a Rice book, read the bit with the vampire and the dead girl and put it down in disgust.

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

LOL.

Yeah her writing just goes downhill...and downhill...and then she digged a deep hole and threw herself in there.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

I got all the way up to... forget which came first, Memnoch or Armand. But one of those. It was basically the slash that kept me going though.