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 Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:01 pm
I read about this...somewhere. I think all the hype surrounding Anne Rice is seriously not deserved. Her first 3 vampire books were pretty good....all downhill from there. mad
"HELP US, JEEBUS."
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:10 pm
I never liked Rice. I thought her books were boring. I couldn't bring myself to sit through the movies.
Then she did this, and I figured that it was bound to happen at some point.
Big whoop. I find the people commenting on her entertaining though.
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:12 pm
Wolffy000 I never liked Rice. I thought her books were boring. I couldn't bring myself to sit through the movies. Then she did this, and I figured that it was bound to happen at some point. Big whoop. I find the people commenting on her entertaining though. I thought it was funny how she doesn't allow fanfiction of her work, and how she flamed this one person on Amazon.com who gave her book a bad review.
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:17 pm
Kizunami I thought it was funny how she doesn't allow fanfiction of her work, and how she flamed this one person on Amazon.com who gave her book a bad review. Yeah, she's basically the equivilant of a slash fiction writer that got published. I don't like her, I don't respect her. I think she's a dumb b***h who never had any ground to stand on in the first place. "Oh noes! Someone didn't like my vampire slash!" Really now...
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:08 am
You couldn't sit through the movies? Wow... I LOVED Interview with the Vampire. And I'd like to think it wasn't just because I got to see Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas prancing around being sexy. Queen of the Damned sucked a**, though. Oh God, they butchered my Marius. crying
*ahem* The best thing about her bitchiness over fanfiction? She wrote that erotica based on Sleeping Beauty. Isn't that the same damned thing? surprised
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:24 am
Yes, thats exactly the same damned thing.
Mm, I could never bring myself to sit through interview with a vampire. I can watch the first 30 minutes or so, or up until they meet that little girl. But after that my mind wanders. I don't like the pacing of it at all, and Brad Pitt just doesn't hold my interest enough for me to want to slag through that until it gets interesting again.
I'm sure if I saw it with others I wouldn't mind so much, but I definately can't bring myself to watch it. The main draw of the movie IS the fact that they're prancing around being sexy. Vampires are erotic by nature (It's the whole taboo of blood and power mixed with sexuality) and adding in some of the better looking Hollywood males in their prime is really what it's about. "Come watch us be sexy vampires and hang all over one another" really.
The story is honestly one of the least interesting vampire stories I've ever heard, aside from Blade (Which, come on, isn't meant to be that interesting). The male vampires tromping around as 17th century English pretty boys doesn't strike my fancy.
And Queen of the Damned just annoyed me. I started to watch it and walked out. I just didn't have the energy to bother with it.
I'm glad Rice has found religion if thats whats good for her, but there isn't much point to her writing a book about Jesus. Religion hasn't played much of a part in her previous works, and I don't think she honestly is well read on the subject. I don't think she has respect for the subject matter, as much as she should, or is knowledgable enough to work with it properly. I don't think her writing skills are good enough for it either.
If she said, "Hey I'm writing another vampire book that has a religious theme to it." I might give her the benefit of the doubt on that one. But as it stands, feh.
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:34 am
Wolffy000 If she said, "Hey I'm writing another vampire book that has a religious theme to it." I might give her the benefit of the doubt on that one. But as it stands, feh. Oh my GOD, that's IT! That's exactly it! It IS a vampire novel with Jesus as the main character! Seriously, look at it. LOOK AT IT! He encouraged his followers to DRINK BLOOD. He ROSE FROM THE DEAD. He GOT those followers by VAMPIRE SEDUCTION. Crosses are now used against vampires because they react to the symbolism of their great leader, and cannot harm a person who follows the path he set for his human sheep! Don't you SEE? It all makes so much sense now.
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:54 am
Wolffy000 I'm glad Rice has found religion if thats whats good for her, but there isn't much point to her writing a book about Jesus. Religion hasn't played much of a part in her previous works, and I don't think she honestly is well read on the subject. I don't think she has respect for the subject matter, as much as she should, or is knowledgable enough to work with it properly. I don't think her writing skills are good enough for it either. That's not true at all. Religion plays a rather large role in the books of hers that I've read. It' not preachy, but it's definately there. Interview with the Vampire is basically a chronicle of a loss of religion told through supernatural means. Louis' fall from grace, if you will, and slow loss of faith, culminated in his attack on the priest... then his slow acceptance of an existential reality. If you want to call it "acceptance." All he really does after figuring things out is mope around.
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:33 pm
Rayinte Oh my GOD, that's IT! That's exactly it! It IS a vampire novel with Jesus as the main character! Seriously, look at it. LOOK AT IT! He encouraged his followers to DRINK BLOOD. He ROSE FROM THE DEAD. He GOT those followers by VAMPIRE SEDUCTION. Crosses are now used against vampires because they react to the symbolism of their great leader, and cannot harm a person who follows the path he set for his human sheep! Don't you SEE? It all makes so much sense now. Yeah, my friend and I talked about that in high school. He was big into it. Not Jesus, vampires and zombies and the like, mind you. Though we did discuss Jesus quite often. And I never got that from her stuff, Pyre. I took it more as a commentary on their life and humanity more than religion. Like I said, I never had it in me to go too far into her stuff though, so I probably missed that. Given the setting the church has a lot of power though, so to exclude it would be like excluding a major social factor out of your book and excluding part of the setting. I didn't see it as a religious context as I did a social one.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:28 am
Wolffy000 Yeah, she's basically the equivilant of a slash fiction writer that got published. I don't like her, I don't respect her. I think she's a dumb b***h who never had any ground to stand on in the first place. "Oh noes! Someone didn't like my vampire slash!" Really now... It would be one of the only slash series to have straight fanfiction, as opposed to the multitudes of straight series with slash fanfiction.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:38 pm
I think Anne Rice writes entirely too much. I spent four months as a shelver at the public library last year (before they fired me for being sick... scream ) and shelving her books wasn't fun. I don't even think her books are that good. I took Queen of the Damned up with me to read on break, and I couldn't get past the first page.
And don't even get me started on Danielle Steele...
I think I'll stick to my literary classics.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:29 pm
Cieve And don't even get me started on Danielle Steele... Got two words for ya: Lurlene McDaniel. Her name is synonymous, to my mind, with "glurge" ... I mean. Just say it aloud. Luuurr-leeen. Eew.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:29 am
Rayinte Cieve And don't even get me started on Danielle Steele... Got two words for ya: Lurlene McDaniel. Her name is synonymous, to my mind, with "glurge" ... I mean. Just say it aloud. Luuurr-leeen. Eew.
I agree. It sounds like someone has a drunken slur.
Is that her real name or did she make it up as her penname? I can't imagine why she would change her name to that, though... She must have cruel, heartless parents.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:43 am
I didn't dislike her vampire series. I think it's alright, though, not the best thing in the world.
Haha, I don't blame her on the fanfic thing. I wouldn't want 13 year old bastardizing my characters either. Look at Harry Potter. XD It's not like she can really stop them, though.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:34 am
Angel_Suicide Haha, I don't blame her on the fanfic thing. I wouldn't want 13 year old bastardizing my characters either. Look at Harry Potter. XD It's not like she can really stop them, though. From what I've heard of her later books, she bastardized her OWN characters. Who cares if someone else gets in on the action?
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