My favorite Anne Rice is still The Witching Hour, oddly.
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Amy - Jan 27, 2012 1:59:45 pm PST #17661 of 28261
Because books.
Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 2:35:44 pm PST #17662 of 28261
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I want specific types of faux-historical. All of the stuff after Lestat is first turned, and the Theatre des Vampires section? LOVE. Angels watching the evolution of humans? Not so much.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 27, 2012 3:07:40 pm PST #17663 of 28261
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Memnoch the Devil nearly killed me, but I have to say that Anne Rice was really brilliant in her use of point of view between Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. I really hated Lestat from Interview, and then really grew to love him in Lestat.
Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 3:10:21 pm PST #17664 of 28261
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I have to say that Anne Rice was really brilliant in her use of point of view between Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. I really hated Lestat from Interview, and then really grew to love him in Lestat.
Yes. That POV switch worked so well. Pity she let her bombast overwhelm her storytelling in later books. (I'm looking at you, Queen of the Damned.)
Cass - Jan 27, 2012 3:34:45 pm PST #17665 of 28261
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My favorite Anne Rice is still The Witching Hour, oddly.
They aren't my favorite Rices of ever but I did veer off in my rereadathon from the vampires to devour all of the Mayfair witch books. Then back to vampires.
Angels watching the evolution of humans?
I could love this premise madly but not when she writes it. Nor the Jesus books which should have been totally me.
What she can do is switch characters and POV in ways that totally work for me.
Amy - Jan 27, 2012 3:39:14 pm PST #17666 of 28261
Because books.
I think I never finished Taltos, the third one. But I still love to read certain sections of The Witching Hour.
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2012 4:27:32 pm PST #17667 of 28261
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Taltos is all kinds of wrong.
Pity she let her bombast overwhelm her storytelling in later books. (I'm looking at you, Queen of the Damned.)
I love QotD precisely *for* its crazy bombast and total OTT-ness. Much like Moulin Rouge, actually. It's a big mess of a book that doesn't know what exactly it wants to be, but it will by god be OTT and gorgeous even as it meanders.
And now I'm torn between re-reading QotD or the most recent Skulduggery Pleasant. But I *actually* need to finish the 4th Luxe book, which I *think* is about to take a car-wreck-y (not literally) turn.
Amy - Jan 27, 2012 4:31:35 pm PST #17668 of 28261
Because books.
I'm trying hard not to reread anything for a while. I have so many books to read, and unless I need a quick comfort hit of A Little Princess or Little Women before bed or something, I'm trying to get through at least some of the TBR stack.
I am going to make an exception for The Hunger Games before the movie comes out, though.
DavidS - Jan 27, 2012 4:32:09 pm PST #17669 of 28261
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No love for Cry to Heaven? I think it's one of her best written books, deeply researched on a fascinating and strange subject. And it's super OPERATIC and twisted. Plus also the man-love galore.
Cass - Jan 27, 2012 4:36:33 pm PST #17670 of 28261
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My Taltos loan ended before I finished rereading. Now I can't recall where it veers into wrongness that stands out even amongest the first two (mostly Lasher) Mayfair books. Clearly I am going to cave and check it out again just so I can know. Because Wikipedia would be too easy.