Anne Rice

i've read the Blackwood farm..and thought wow.. anne rice is pretty bad *** writer... ihavent read Queen of The Damned.. but i have seen the movie and my mom says the movie is pretty accurate to the book...is that true??

nah, the movie sucks. It tries to combine both first books and fails....miserably.

You're mom is the only person on the planet that feels that way. The movie changed a lot about the books. Plus it skipped most of it. If you were to read the book and then read the movie you would cry.

I used to be huge into the "Vampire Chronicles" - I own all of them in hardback *yikes!* but funny thing is, I haven't read them all. I like Interview with the Vampire alot and I love The Vampire Lestat and in my opinion Queen of the Damned is one of the best books out there, period, and Memnoch the Devil was brilliant ... but around Pandora I thought her writing started going down hill. I thought The Vampire Armand was absolutely awful, one of the worst books I've ever read, and Vittorio The Vampire felt like a waste of frickin' time - I only started reading it because it was next in the series and only finished it because I hate to leave a book unfinished.

So I've kind of stale mated myself. I just can't bring myself to pick up the next book in the series cause I'm like "wow, it'll probably just suck worse than the last, if that's even possible." I do own Taltos and Violin by her and I haven't read them and now I'm scared to try those out, too.

But she is an excellent writer, even I don't really like what she writes.

Ok. So I have just finished both Merrick and Vittorio. Both were Anne Riceish. They were not "amazing" and you did not learn much about the characters, but it was well written, minus a few grammatical errors.

I am now done with the Vampire Chronicles. Yay.

So I took Lord of the Vie's advice and went to go pick up Merrick. Unfortunately, the store didn't have it, but they had The Vampire Armand. I had tried reading this when it first came out and just couldn't get into it. This time around was a much better experience. Although it most definitely was not Anne's best story, I really fell for Amadeo and the love between Marius and him.

When I first posted, I wished to skip the rest of The Vampire Chronicles after Memnoch due to my unsuccessful first attempt with Armand, but I've now decided to read all of them through in order. I really get swept up in the romanticism of her fantasy worlds.

Memnoch the Devil freaked me out...towards the end. I really enjoyed Blood and Gold and The Vampire Lestat and Interview with a Vampire. I haven't read her stuff in a long time.

It looks like they are going to do a vampire episode on Ghost Whisperer! I love both Ann Rice's writing and GW so I thought I'd share. Here is the promo! It looks awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_a2Qu9bkgg

Wow, this brings back memories. I was a huge Anne Rice fan in my teens. I read all the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witch books in high school. My favorites were The Vampire Lestat and Blood and Gold (because I have a soft spot for Marius). It's sad that the VC got as bad as they did; it was a relief when she finally ended them. But the early books were as good vampire fiction ever gets! (unlike other vamp series...coughtwilightcough)

I also enjoyed Violin because Rice has a very sensual way of portraying music. That was what made The Vampire Armand bearable for me...her constant references back to the Beethoven's magical Appassionata.

Has anyone read her earlier stuff...like the Beauty erotica trilogy?

Her son, Christopher Rice, is also writing novels now. I think his fourth one just came out.