A Thinking Reed

"I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord."

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Lee M.

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Wow! Anne Rice has returned to the Catholic Church and has published a novel about Jesus’ “lost years” in Egypt.

Rice knows “Out of Egypt” and its projected sequels—three, she thinks—could alienate her following; as she writes in the afterword, “I was ready to do violence to my career.” But she sees a continuity with her old books, whose compulsive, conscience-stricken evildoers reflect her long spiritual unease. “I mean, I was in despair.” In that afterword she calls Christ “the ultimate supernatural hero … the ultimate immortal of them all.”

I only ever made it through Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat but enjoyed them both. I’m kind of intrigued by the new novel.

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4 responses to “"I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord."”

  1. Eric Lee

    I’m intrigued as well. I’ve read up to and including The Queen of the Damned (don’t bother with the wretched movie), and enjoyed them all so far. I have another 3 or 4 books in the series after it waiting, but not sure if I’ll get to them any time soon.

    Should be interesting!

    I really liked this:

    “If I really complete the life of Christ the way I want to do it,” she says, “then I might go on and write a new type of fiction. It won’t be like the other. It’ll be in a world that includes redemption.”

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  2. Joshie

    As if the Catholic Church doesn’t have enough problems

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  3. Lee

    Maybe she’ll write a novel about Lestat kicking the ass of that guy from the Da Vinci Code.

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  4. Joshie

    see now, I’d buy that.

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