12 years ago
Sat Oct 08 2011, 12:54pm
Hey guys!
I am outraged that there isn't a sticky thread on Anne Rice. Haha Just joking. I was wondering how many people read her novels and what you thought of them. I don't know if I will be excommunicated from this website by saying she is my favourite author (IC comes in second :p Although GMD and AW ties with Rice's books haha) but I'm just going to go ahead and say it anyway.
The asterisk are the ones I have read :P
Vampire Chronicles *
Interview with the Vampire (1976) *
The Vampire Lestat (1985) *
The Queen of the Damned (1988) *
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992) *
Memnoch the Devil (1995) *
The Vampire Armand (1998) *
Merrick (2000) *
Blood and Gold (2001) *
Blackwood Farm (2002) *
Blood Canticle (2003) *
New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora (1998) (a Vampire Chronicle) *
Vittorio the Vampire (1999) *
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Witching Hour (1990) *
Lasher (1993) *
Taltos (1994) *
Vampire/Mayfair Crossover
In these novels the Mayfair Witches become part of the Vampire Chronicles world.
Merrick (2000) *
Blackwood Farm (2002) *
Blood Canticle (2003) *
The Life of Christ
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005) *
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (2008) *
Christ the Lord: the Kingdom of Heaven (in progress)
Songs of the Seraphim
Angel Time (2009) *
Of Love and Evil (2010)
Miscellaneous Novels
The Feast of All Saints (1979) *
The Master of Rampling Gate (Vampire Short Story) (1982)
Cry to Heaven (1982) *
The Mummy (1989)
Servant of the Bones (1996)
Violin (1997) *
Non-Fiction
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession (2008) (autobiographical) *
Written Under the pseudonym Anne Rampling
Exit to Eden (1985) *
Belinda (1986)
Written Under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (1983)
Beauty's Punishment (1984)
Beauty's Release (1985)
I am actually saving up for a trip to New Orleans because I am so inspired by her.
So yes, without being thrown off a cliff by IC, does anyone else read her books? What do you think?
I must comment that I typed in the guessing game thread before I saw this one!
I have only read the first two in the Vampire series. I enjoyed them, but grew impatient with Lestat's endless angst and philosophising. I wanted to tell him to grow up and enjoy his immortality. I have a lot of friends who love them, though. A highschool friend of mine (we're talking late 90s) wanted to be a vampire because of those books. It started her in a goth phase.
I also read the one about the castrati, which I liked.
Cry to Heaven is the one about the Castrati. I love the way Rice writes, I am mesmerized and sometimes I end up reading for hours, and once I finished re-reading her series I become all melancholy because I fall in love with the characters haha I'm not obsessed >.>
I had to read her work for one of my literature courses, and as such, after too much in depth discussion and analysis, ultimately I found myself disliking the works just on principle.
I do certainly admire her skills and style when it comes to writing however. Although I can no longer read her work without bashing my head against a wall, originally they were brilliant to read in that they flew very well.
Haha. I find I get frustrated if books aren't in-depth or analytical. I think some books have too basic of a story-line, and don't answer all the questions that I want to know, whereas Rice covers everything so there's not a lot of things that makes me feel I've been cheated of a good story.
