Anne blasts her detractors on Amazon.com

hb writes:
hbrandt RemoveThis @NOinsight.rr.com (hb)
Would someone please repost Anne's amazon.com rant? It's now disappeared
from the site itself. I never got to see it and have only seen a summary
of what she wrote. Thanks.
/hal
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Here is what i could find on Msnbc.com Personally, I have the book and
haven't bothered to read it,
Sad because I was a big fan. Louis was my favorite and without him in
the final book. Why bother.

Anne Rice is biting back.

=E2=80=9CSeldom do I really answer those who criticize my work,=E2=80=9D
came a lengthy posting in the name of Anne Rice, who she goes on to say
she is offended by the =E2=80=9Csheer outrageous stupidity of many
things you=E2=80=99ve said here.=E2=80=9D =C2=A0She then comments that
those who have =E2=80=9Cposted outrageously negative comments here. . .
aren=E2=80=99t even reading [her book]. You are projecting your own
limitations on it.=E2=80=9D
In closing, she gives out her e-mail address, as well as her street
address to critics, saying "I=E2=80=99m not a coward about my real name
or where I live. And yes, the Chronicles are no more! Thank
God!=E2=80=9D"

Rice couldn=E2=80=99t be reached to confirm if she did, indeed, write
the posting

The famed author of "The Vampire Chronicles" =E2=80"=E2=80"which was
turned into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt =E2=80" is getting
chewed up for her latest book by some readers on Amazon.com, so she has
posted on Amazon.com a sharp rebuttal to those online critics. Some
readers have written scathing reviews of =E2=80=9CBlood
Canticle,=E2=80=9D the final installment in the hugely popular Vampire
Chronicle series. Rice not only defends the book, she offers disgruntled
readers a refund.
More than 200 readers posted reviews, and while some were positive, many
were harsh. =E2=80=9CMy hard-earned $25 would have been better spent on
gin, cigarettes, and porn,=E2=80=9D wrote one reviewer, who went on to
call the book, =E2=80=9Cwhiny, affected, uninspired, and poorly
written.=E2=80=9D Wrote another: =E2=80=9CThere are no words to describe
how offensive and bad =E2=80=98Blood Canticle=E2=80=99 is. Racist,
religiously bias, [sic] and sexist.=E2=80=9D

lynda