I saw she passed away recently. I’ve never read her books because vampires don’t really interest me unless it’s a very good story. Are there any of her books that are worth reading?
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Funny how this is the exact opposite now
She's cool. Based grandma.
It's been only few years and it's now completely the other way round. If Just Kidding dies, millions will celebrate.
The progress sure progresses fast.
Surprisingly sane take.
Cool! Thanks!
Anne Rice wrote stories of male homoeroticism for the sexual titillation of heterosexual females. Basically she wrote soft yaoi. If she started writing today, we'd call her a fujoshi.
I'd never waste my time attempting to appreciate the books, although I have seen Interview With a Vampire, and consider it a well above average entry into a genre typically populated by schlock: It's actually enjoyable, unlike the pure suffering of Twilight that a woman once inflicted upon my eyes and ears.
Look at Fifty Shades of Grey. It started as Twilight fanfiction, and then became a book that sold over a million more copies than Twilight did. It's not surprising that a writer might not want someone ripping off their work and getting rich quick off the back of their creativity.
The sex is incredibly tame in all her novels.
It's for androphilic female wiccans, pagans, goths, spinsters, cat ladies
Memnoch is fine.
I read a couple as a kid, I remember there was a lot of weird sex shit and not much horror.
I forced my way through Interview With A Vampire back when the movie came out. I figured if I was going to start reading her stuff, I should jump in with the original work, and everyone in my circle of college-age friends was gushing over it. I wasn't that impressed.
It helped to know when I read the book that Rice originally preferred Rutger Hauer for the part of Lestat when the movie was being cast, but it still felt like I was wasting my time reading it - and this is coming from someone who absolutely loves Gothic horror. Based as she may have been in her opinions of cancel culture, her writing just wasn't for me - but I'm not you. If you feel you must read her stuff, if only to say you have read Interview, give it a go, you might like it.
At the very least Anne Rice isn't writing at the 5th grade YA level that most female-oriented works are targeted at (e.g. Hunger Games, Twilight, 50 Shades, etc)
Valid. Most chick-lit these days (and a large chunk of female-authored sci-fi and fantasy works from the last decade and change, for that matter) is dumbed down to the point of being barely more than a Dick and Jane book. While her works weren't my cup of tea, at least it was at an adult level.
There is a used book store by me and they have her books super cheap. I’ll give that one a chance. Thanks!
Used book stores are definitely your best friend when it comes to being able to test-drive an author's works, and if you end up liking it you can always replace the "reader" copy with a better copy later on down the line. Doesn't hurt that Rice's works were so mass-produced that paperbacks of them are literally a dime a dozen in the used shops.
Memnoch the Devil is a pretty interesting take on the Christian concept of God vs. Satan if that's your bag.
The first 4 or 5 were alright, there was a lot of introspection and a little philosophy thrown in with the development of characters we were just getting to know, and the story was at least original at the time. At or around Memnoch the Devil, it got weird and steadily slid downhill.
The premise is that vampires in her books basically become asexual when turned but still get weird becoming connected with each other. It's explained but still, uncomfortable.
Anne Rice wrote the screenplay to the first Interview with the Vampire movie, and the books are set to the same tone. The Queen of the Damned movie was shit and made to cash in on the books. There are graphic novels of at least the first 3 books that are a little easier to read but still just as weird and uncomfortable.
Anyone remember when the acclaimed author and survivor of gamegate "Zoe Quinn" and its clique fought Anne Rice on the internet? I forgot what it was about.
They start off okay then turn awful.