Blood Canticle

I don't even know where to jump in, but I will say this: The vocabulary
drove me nuts! 'um, yeah, ok, um, but, oh, sure, yeah, uh-huh, toots, blah
blah BLAH! I could perhaps understand (but loathe) those words being
uttered from Mona, but Lestat? Please. Quinn didn't have nearly enough of a
voice, and he hardly sounded like the Quinn we met in Blackwood Farm. Rowan
didn't seem like herself, and I agree completely with the bit about her
falling all over him being uncharacteristic. Rowan is the cold gray surgeon.
Michael always understood her and loved her for it, and I loved him to bits.
He seemed here to be a shadow of himself but he still felt like Michael, at
least to me. Rowan was supposed to be level-headed, cold, collected, etc. I
just did not understand her. Mona seemed more petty than anything. She
seemed to have regressed from the adult at 14 that we once knew, and the
child vampire at 20? It was a wonder to me that she didn't follow Nicolas
into the fire.

On a side note; weren't we led to believe that this would wrap up all loose
ends, and weren't we supposed to find out what was going on with the
Talamasca / Elders? Where did that storyline go? I am beginning to feel like
there is a book I haven't read, or some major chapters that I must have
dozed off while reading. There just seems to be too much missing.

P.S. Robyn, happy birthday

Amy


"Ashe" <ashe.winterwolf DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
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 > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:21:32 GMT, "Robyn" <JESSICA15 DeleteThis @bigpond.com>
 > wrote:
 >
  > >Ok ABAR, this is your cue....
  > >
  > >Wake the hell up!
 >
 > My thoughts exactly.
 >
  > >
  > >It doesn't come out in Sydney till the 3rd of November (my 21st b'day!)
so
  > >you'll have to give me the verdict...
 >
 > Less than stellar, very first draftish. If you must have it when it
 > hits the bookstores or must add it to your collection...get it, but if
 > you can wait until your public library has it, that's even better.
 > Lestat has lost his "voice", his grasp of the English language, his
 > personality, and his flair. He shows plenty of his vanity, but without
 > the rest it rings hollow. He isn't as unrecognizable as he was in
 > Memnoch the Drivel, but this is not the Lestat we have come to know
 > though the rest of the VC.
 > In the stories, I reallly liked the off-beat tidbits he gives such as
 > his name being created from the first letters of his brother's first
 > names, and in this one he mentions how he hasn't quite recovered from
 > first seeing a steam locomotive...he really got run over by it. Little
 > things like that are great, I wished Rice had included more of that
 > instead of the bad vocabulary we have in BC.
 > Take care,
 > Ashe<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Amy,
I was wondering the same thing. You know, I get the impression from
this book that she really didn't care about this story. It has the
feel that all she wanted to do was get through with it with as little
effort as possible, close the series lose ends or not, and she didn't
give a crap about what kind of slop she allowed to be put into print.
I can almost hear her thinking...."Doesn't matter how good or bad,
consistent or inconsistant...they will buy it." I had a feeling that
this would be the last Rice book I read....I was right. I won't touch
her again. Right now, I'm reading Conversations with God, and then I'm
off to The DaVinci Code.
Take care,
Ashe


 >
 >On a side note; weren't we led to believe that this would wrap up all loose
 >ends, and weren't we supposed to find out what was going on with the
 >Talamasca / Elders? Where did that storyline go? I am beginning to feel like
 >there is a book I haven't read, or some major chapters that I must have
 >dozed off while reading. There just seems to be too much missing.
 >
 >P.S. Robyn, happy birthday
 >
 >Amy<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Ashe,

How is Conversations With God? Is it fiction?

I loved The DaVinci Code. Absolutely loved it. It's an intelligent yet guilty
pleasure, if you know what I mean.

Btw, I read somewhere that Anne thought Blood Canticle was her personal best.
That it was the best writing she felt she had ever done.

I won't be surprised if I don't like it that much (because her newer stories
haven't turned me on like the old ones) but I don't think she just slopped some
words on paper. I believe she did the best she could with what she had at a
given time. That's all anyone can do. Okay, yeah, I know, she could let her
editor actually edit/critique her stuff (instead of just picking out the cover
art), but that's a dead horse I don't want to beat.

Take care,

Darryl
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On 07 Nov 2003 09:22:00 GMT, darrm DeleteThis @aol.comnojunk (Darrm) wrote:

 >Ashe,
 >
 >How is Conversations With God? Is it fiction?

The most profound books I've read in a very long time. However, is if
fiction or not? That depends on whether or not you believe that author
truly had a conversation with God. The author tells you how the whole
thing came about and it reads like a dialogue. The author asks
questions and God answers via something along the lines of automatic
writing.
I choose to believe that Mr. Walsche did have a conversation with the
Divine, somehow, someway. But even if you don't, this would still be
one of the most profound books you could pick up. If nothing else, it
stands as an introduction to mysticism and transcendent thought.

 >I loved The DaVinci Code. Absolutely loved it. It's an intelligent yet guilty
 >pleasure, if you know what I mean.

I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard so many good things about
Code, that I can't not read it.

 >Btw, I read somewhere that Anne thought Blood Canticle was her personal best.
 >That it was the best writing she felt she had ever done.

I think the woman is delusional or so full of herself she really
doesn't know how bad her writing has gotten, at least, when it comes
to this series of books.


 >I won't be surprised if I don't like it that much (because her newer stories
 >haven't turned me on like the old ones) but I don't think she just slopped some
 >words on paper. I believe she did the best she could with what she had at a
 >given time. That's all anyone can do. Okay, yeah, I know, she could let her
 >editor actually edit/critique her stuff (instead of just picking out the cover
 >art), but that's a dead horse I don't want to beat.

Maybe that's true, I noticed she finished the novel just after Stan
was diagnosed with cancer. Maybe things hadn't been going well for
them, healthwise, even before that and she couldn't focus on the work
at hand. Maybe she really did lose Lestat's voice after Memnoch and
couldn't recapture it, but wished to give fans another book with
Lestat anyway. Whatever it was gap between how he sounded in other
books, even BF, and how he sounds in this one is too disjointed to my
taste, not to mention the inconsistances in her cosmology.
Take care,
Ashe


 >
 >Take care,
 >
 >Darryl
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The Da Vinci Code Rocks

lynze
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 >The Da Vinci Code Rocks
 >
 >lynze

It is a FABULOUS book!!! I've read it three times and it just got better each
time. If you liked that one you must read his other book Angels & Demons.

James<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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