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Anne Rice Gets Biblical in Her Next Book
NEW YORK - Vampires are usually her passion, but Anne Rice is getting biblical in her next book, due out in November from publisher Random House. "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" will tell the story of Jesus' early years in his own words.
Excerpts of a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review copies of the book this summer are published in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine.
"For over 10 years I've wanted to do this book — Jesus in his own words," Rice writes. "For five years, I've been obsessed with how to do it, and for the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else."
Rice, who has moved from New Orleans to San Diego, brought the undead back to life in the 1970s with "Interview With the Vampire."
"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, `This is my body. This is my blood.' No, I can't work that magnificent Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form a story, and that story is Christ The Lord."
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though Anne Rice has a reputation of being Ms. Uber-Goth, I've found some really profound stuff written into her vampire books.
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Wow.......I'm rather impressed. As dark as her books are, I couldn't imagine her actually being a believer. I wonder if this is more of a publicity stunt and if the whole thing's going to turn out to be total blasphemous anyways!
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PrincessElisa said:
Wow.......I'm rather impressed. As dark as her books are, I couldn't imagine her actually being a believer. I wonder if this is more of a publicity stunt and if the whole thing's going to turn out to be total blasphemous anyways!
Have you read her books? She's insanely catholic...it oozes through every page.
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klinton said:
Have you read her books? She's insanely catholic...it oozes through every page.
Like I said, there's some really profound religious thoughts and philosophical debates written into her stories. Which I suppose is why she's as good at what she does (gothic fiction) as anyone this side of Mary Shelly.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.
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Ohhhhhh thats right klints, it has been several years. Nevermind....I forgot about her being Catholic.
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Yeah, whaddya think she is... Wiccan?! Pffft! Only the handmaidens of Satan and Stareena practice that! 
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