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Mon Sep-05-05 03:13 AM
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Anne Rice's best book on New Orleans? |
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Someone mentioned it in an earlier thread but I can't find this thread now.
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Mon Sep-05-05 03:27 AM
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1. I didn't see the original thread, but I like "The Witching Hour" best. |
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Either that or "Interview with the Vampire."
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Mon Sep-05-05 09:39 AM
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4. "The Witching Hour" is the book that made want to visit New Orleans |
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Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 09:44 AM by terrya
Anne Rice is so descriptive of New Orleans in "Witching Hour". She talks about the great old houses and the city itself. You get such a real feel of the city. Having read it (and it is one of her best books), I so wanted to visit afterwards.
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Mon Sep-05-05 09:40 AM
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that book is so atmospheric... :thumbsup:
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:13 PM
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28. i love that book. one of my favorites by her... |
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along with "the feast of all saints" and "a cry to heaven (which wasn't set in new orleans).
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Mon Sep-05-05 09:30 AM
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2. I think Feast of All Saints is great - a tale of the Free People of Color |
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I think it says a lot about the social fabric of its time. Don't get me wrong, I love all her books but I liked that one a lot more.
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Mon Sep-05-05 12:15 PM
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6. That's the one I was thinking of.....n/t |
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Mon Sep-05-05 09:37 AM
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3. I'm partial to The Witching Hour |
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Mon Sep-05-05 12:53 PM
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but I've never read the Witching Hour, I think I will stop by the local library tomorrow...
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Mon Sep-05-05 12:54 PM
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I think you'd love it! :bounce:
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:02 PM
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9. I have to go to the Post Office tomorrow anyway |
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and its right across the street, kill two birds with one stone, heh
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:04 PM
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11. I have to go to the PO too |
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i have special mail to send out... ;)
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:25 PM
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:33 PM
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:bounce: see, i'm bouncing.
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Mon Sep-05-05 04:59 PM
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I enjoy some of Anne Rice, but that monstrosity took me 6 months to finish (after awhile it just became a "OK, I've come this far, I'll be damned if I'm going to quit now..." thing).
Other than A.S. Byatt's "Possession", never has a book made me want to blow my brains out more.
Just for another perspective....
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:03 PM
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10. The Witching Hour Series |
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and all of the other books on the Mayfair Witches.
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:26 PM
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14. I read the vampire chronicles... |
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I'm sure I'll love these too.
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:01 PM
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25. Yes , I enjoyed both series equally well |
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lots of history ,, well you know Anne if you read the Vampire Chronicles
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:24 PM
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takes you magically into bayous ...
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:36 PM
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16. I've always wanted to read her erotica too |
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:56 PM
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18. Khash, of course, has. (Big surprise) |
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My two cents worth -
The Beauty series is pretty good as porn (but fails as novels). As long as minor S/m get's you going. (Prince Alexi getting raped by kitchen workers with vegetables has always been a fave, as well as Beauty wondering if she can handle being publicly whipped - that should give you a taste of what it's like :) )
Exit to Eden is pretty good (forget that stupid comedy movie!). It's about finding love in a sexual "utopia". More S/m (but some of it is pretty hot.)
I've never been able to stomach Belinda. I've never even been able to finish it. The whole thing about a not really real but pretended pedophilia creeps me out. I know what she was doing - Lolita, with the young woman pursuing and controlling the relationship with the older man. But the way it's done is kinda icky. At least to me. Many other people feel differently.
Just don't expect nice normal vanilla exclusively heterosexual sex from her......
Khash.
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Mon Sep-05-05 02:01 PM
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19. hey, who wants nice and normal, anyhow |
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:10 PM
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Anyway, check 'em out. The Beauty series is obviously fantasy. And oddly, in spite of some of the rather explicit gay male stuff (perhaps even because of it) is a huge hit with women.
Eden is more serious. The sex is explicit, very, but also more serious - and it's a better book because of it. I do have a problem with it, though. She seems to imply that giving up S/m is the greatest act of love. Tedious and reactionary. Sometimes, engaging in S/m can be the greatest act of love. For someone so into it, sometimes it seems she just doesn't get it.
Khash.
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Mon Sep-05-05 04:47 PM
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isn't the 'fruit bowl' imagery just the very best ...
ever ...
other than that the sleeping beauty series is just a 'bit over the top' (except for the use of spices) ...
I agree with you about reading Exit to Eden ... the movie just didn't make it ...
BTW ... don't expect 'vanilla' to ever be the same again
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:16 PM
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29. This is sick, Joani, but |
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the most erotic thing she ever wrote....
the part in Interview where they kill the prostitutes. It's ugly, it's wrong. it's bad. But it is so beautifully written and it touches you in a way that is aesthetic, sexual, horrific....
Khash.
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Mon Sep-05-05 06:13 PM
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Hated Belinda.
As a novel Exit to Eden was best. A group of us read them all together a few years back.
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Mon Sep-05-05 04:38 PM
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21. I've given several sets away ... |
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Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 04:47 PM by Joan_Alpern
Awesome ... a must read! ...
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:03 PM
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26. yes I read "exit to eden" |
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Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 05:04 PM by proud patriot
She's able to make you understand kind of like she made you understand what it must be like to go from human to vampire.
she's got a knack at that .
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Mon Sep-05-05 05:44 PM
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30. Well speaking as a sadomasochist |
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She gets it. But I think she has problems with it. Eden is a perfect example. They run away from an S/m utopia to have a nice vanilla relationship? Huh? So this submissive guy and this dominant gal run away to have nice normal sex? I give it two weeks at best.
The sex is good - the wrestling/rape scene is pretty amazing. The scene where he is tied up and she's going to whip him. And she is racked with ambivalence. She wants to hurt him, he wants her to hurt him. But she's falling in love with him and never wants to hurt him - it's in that ambivalence that the real erotic juices start flowing....
But the politics kinda suck.
Love and sadomasochism can't go together? Is she really that stupid?
I've been in too many S/m relationships to buy that.. I've been in too many situations where Everything I needed, I wanted, I desired was denied me. And they called it love. And they called it in my best interest. I call it crap
Sorry I went from one thing to another....but give Khash a hobbyhorse and he will ride it.
I'm sorry I did this... but not really.... well kinda but not really really....
Something I needed to say.....
Khash.
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Mon Sep-05-05 01:42 PM
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Interview has some good New Orleans stuff but the Paris stuff is a litlle more evocative IMHO.
Khash.
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Mon Sep-05-05 04:35 PM
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20. Feast of All Saints, by far |
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New Orleans is practically a character in all her books, but out of all of them, I think Feast of All Saints was the best love letter to New Orleans.
It was also made into a Showtime miniseries that wasn't half bad (it's one of the better film adaptations of her work...but that's not saying much).
Any other Rice fans know if the Mayfair house survived the flooding? That was a beautiful house...I got to see it before she stopped giving tours.
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Mon Sep-05-05 04:45 PM
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22. I love all of Anne Rice |
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As a tribute to NO I am going to re-read them all this winter. As an aside, I can't remember which one I was reading, I think it was The Witching Hour and I was astounded at her descriptive prose. I was reading in bed, about 2 a.m. and was struck by the incredible description where the houses were burning down. (Sorry if it was another book) I could feel the heat, could envision the flames, until I looked out the bedroom window and saw a large farm on fire across the lake. Freak me right out. I had to put the book away and cover the fire for the newspaper I was working for, but boy it was one of those moments I will never forget. Does anyone know if she is okay?
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Mon Sep-05-05 06:29 PM
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32. She lives in La Jolla now. |
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She wrote an editorial for the Times about NO and she was pissed!
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