In "The Lord of the Flies" Golding wrote a very different yet very comparable story to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of...
(09/28/07) In "The Lord of the Flies" Golding wrote a very different yet very comparable story to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". A group of English schoolboys, ages six to twelve, are stranded on a tropical island when their plane crashes and all the adults are killed. After initial attempts to organize, the children gradually descend, first to disorganized and purposeless play, then to struggles of dominance and an attempt at establishing an hierarchy, and finally, with a few exceptions, to barbarism and violence. Many of the characters are archetypal. Ralph is the good leader, but he gradually loses his ability to think logically; Piggy is the myopic, overweight, asthmatic, indolent but intelligent voice of civilization; Jack is the authoritarian, dominant, aggressive leader; and Roger is the mysterious, secretive, suppressed savage, who gradually shows how extreme he can become in his violence. How far will things go before somebody stops and says, "Wait a minute! What are we doing?' AND...See less
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One Book To Bind Them All... To quote the beginning of this fine collector's edition....'The Lord Of The Rings is often...
(09/28/07) One Book To Bind Them All... To quote the beginning of this fine collector's edition....'The Lord Of The Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, published for convenience in three volumes..." Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarven lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of J.R.R. Tolkiens epic masterpiece, &64257;rst reached these shores on October 21, 1954, arriving, as C. S. Lewis proclaimed, like lightning from a clear sky. Fifty years and nearly one hundred million American readers later comes a beautiful new one-volume collectors edition. With a text fully corrected under...See less
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Read it again and again with this awesomely bound version of the hobbit. Comes with an attractive hard 'sleeve' which...
(09/28/07) Read it again and again with this awesomely bound version of the hobbit. Comes with an attractive hard 'sleeve' which the book slides into. Also include original illustrations by the author himself...See less
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This new 272 page road map could be one of the best ways to bring your hopes and dreams into being. Lucia has much...
(09/28/07) This new 272 page road map could be one of the best ways to bring your hopes and dreams into being. Lucia has much experience in the "artistic design" area and translates this skill, knowledge and experience into useful everyday methods to help us get what we want out of life. She leads the way to help us turn our ideas into reality. You'll learn how to chose a theme, gather the images, find order in the chaos, commit your vision to paper and glue, get feedback from others, dwell on your vision, get help to implement the plan and celebrate your final result. She offers detailed methods and exercises to help you work through this process, step by step. Some of her methods can provide you with amazing results. A knowledge of art or abilities as an artist are not important. She'll help you bring your latent art talents into useful actions to help you get what you want out of life. A very intersting, fun read that everyone can benefit from. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report...See less
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* Hardcover: 288 pages * Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 1996) * Language: English * ISBN-10:...
(09/28/07) * Hardcover: 288 pages * Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 1996) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0836221796 * ISBN-13: 978-0836221794 * Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches * Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 13 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,513 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in this category: (What's this?)See less
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Okay, this is a winner! If you do NOT have it on your bookshelf then get it! This has become one of the required...
(09/28/07) Okay, this is a winner! If you do NOT have it on your bookshelf then get it! This has become one of the required textbooks for many of my courses. (Visit my Amazon page for more information.) It is flat out beautiful -- the beauty is that it is filled with the illustrations and notes by the authors. The book delves into the questions you might have, doubts that might arise -- and those get answered but the book allows and encourages creativity and growth through the nature journal process. You'll find hints for what tools to pick for your illustrations and notes, tips for observing, what information you might want to include, how to overcome your critical mind, beginning drawing exercises and tips on how to enchance your creativity. You'll find a seasonal section that gives some good suggestions for documenting natural changes and events. Later there are more drawing exercises on shading, drawing flowers, anatomy, landscapes, etc. There are also samples of different journal techniques,...See less
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The Book of Us: A Journal of Your Love Story in 150 Questions I am happy to announce a new book I have co-written with...
(09/28/07) The Book of Us: A Journal of Your Love Story in 150 Questions I am happy to announce a new book I have co-written with my wife Kate. Have you ever filled out a Valentines Day, birthday or anniversary greeting card and wished you had more space to convey all the things you appreciate about your partner? WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU (Broadway Books, January 2007) helps you express the many ways you cherish your special someone. The prompts are fun, easy to answer and encourage intimacy, such as: * If wed met in a comic strip, the thought bubble over my head would have read: * We clicked because we were: a) bread and butter, b) two peas in a pod, or c) sweet and sour. * I first knew I loved you when: * Im glad I listened to you, or wish I had, when you said: * I get a kick out of watching you: Have fun,See less
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This review refers to "The Essential Writer's Notebook - A Step by Step Guide To Better Writing" (Natalie Goldberg). If...
(09/28/07) This review refers to "The Essential Writer's Notebook - A Step by Step Guide To Better Writing" (Natalie Goldberg). If you are looking for a lovely journal, a place to record your thoughts, or a nice gift for someone who does journal, this notebook would be a good buy. The book is a sturdy hardcover, with good quality lined pages for writing, that are double spiral bound. Every few pages, you will find a beautiful color illustration that may even prove to be inspiring. At the beginning of every few pages, you will also find, writing exercises or daily inspirations to help you gather your thoughts, or that you may use as a warm up excercise to get your mind working if you are a writer working on other projects. Goldberg guides the budding writer with ways to really get your thoughts out there. Keep your hand moving on the paper, make contact with other writers, give a specific voice to your writing(e.g, mother, teacher, etc),accept what's in your mind, practice often, etc. All great...See less
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* Hardcover: 128 pages * Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 1, 1999) * Language: English * ISBN-10:...
(09/28/07) * Hardcover: 128 pages * Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 1, 1999) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0740702084 * ISBN-13: 978-0740702082 * Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches * Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces * Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #939,297 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)See less
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Hardcover, unfortunately NOT spiral bound. The divisions in the book are not tabbed or delineated in any way. The pages...
(09/28/07) Hardcover, unfortunately NOT spiral bound. The divisions in the book are not tabbed or delineated in any way. The pages are lined, with a small, designed margin at the top. The book is punctuated by occasional black-and-white, book-related pictures. Most of the book is given over to the first section, which has page-long entries for individual books. The fields are: Title, Author, Date Read, and Comments, the last of which goes on for the rest of the page. This section will be handy for most uses, I should think, though it's not good if you just want to list books read with no comment, or little comment. Next is the Books to Read section (7 pages' worth), with room for notes on three books per page. Then there's a Books Borrowed section, with room for notes on five books per page (2 pages). Then a Books Loaned section [shouldn't that be Books Lent?], also five books per page and two pages long. Three pages for Bookstore information follows, then two pages for Libraries and two pages...See less
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* Paperback: 56 pages * Publisher: Rodgers & Nelsen Publishing Company.; Bk&Acces edition (March 1, 2001) * Language:...
(09/28/07) * Paperback: 56 pages * Publisher: Rodgers & Nelsen Publishing Company.; Bk&Acces edition (March 1, 2001) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0966269640 * ISBN-13: 978-0966269642 * Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches * Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #762,869 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in this category: (What's this?)See less
I tried some of the exercises in this book years ago and found them really insightful. The art parts I skipped and...
(09/28/07) I tried some of the exercises in this book years ago and found them really insightful. The art parts I skipped and focused on the writing exercises. Now I'm giving it another go and again it makes me think outside my usual box. Some exercises use lists, some use word association, visualizing and a variety of techniques. One exercise has you make a list of things you like about yourself. Then make a second list of things you would like to expand or strengthen. Then take one of the items and write out how you will actually do that in the coming week. This is a good book to provide ways to explore some inner feelings and open up your thinking. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)See less
I bought this book as something fun and interactive to do with my husband. I give it two stars because it is something...
(09/28/07) I bought this book as something fun and interactive to do with my husband. I give it two stars because it is something to get you talking and discussing feelings and opinions even if you disagree with the book. That beats just sitting on the couch watching tv. Otherwise though we both felt this book wasn't very revealing and often missed the mark for us entirely. For example, in one question it asks you to describe how you would feel standing in the open door of a flying airplane getting ready to parachute for the first time. In the answer section it says your response indicates how you feel when you are about to have sex with someone for the first time. Okay, how many people wouldn't answer that question with words like nervous anticipation or exhilaration? Both of us did at any rate. Not very revealing. My friend said terrified because she is afraid of heights but she completely rejected the idea that she experiences terror at the prospect of sex. I would imagine alot of people might...See less
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Amazon.com That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years,...See less
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* Reading level: Young Adult * Mass Market Paperback: 276 pages * Publisher: Simon Pulse (October 1, 1995) * Language:...
(09/28/07) * Reading level: Young Adult * Mass Market Paperback: 276 pages * Publisher: Simon Pulse (October 1, 1995) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0689804466 * ISBN-13: 978-0689804465 * Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches * Average Customer Review: based on 98 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #741,570 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in this category: (What's this?)See less
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Review Horn Book A fine achievement. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description Jeff Greene was only...
(09/28/07) Review Horn Book A fine achievement. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor. So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year. But Jeff's second summer in Charleston ends with a devastating betrayal, and he returns to his father wounded almost beyond bearing. But out of Jeff's pain grows a deepening awareness of the unexpected and complicated ways of love and loss and of family and friendship -- and the strength to understand his father, his mother, and especially himself.See less
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Amazon.com Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo. "Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say. It's also the story of how this boy, Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, confronts racism in a small town, tries to find a home where there is none and attempts to soothe tensions between rival factions on the tough side of town. Presented as a folk tale, it's the stuff of storytelling. "The history of a kid," says Jerry Spinelli, "is one part fact, two parts legend, and three parts snowball." And for this kid, four parts of fun. Maniac Magee won the 1991 Newbery Medal. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly Winner of the Newbery Medal, this humorous yet poignant tall tale concerns a super-athletic teenager who bridges his town's racial gap. Ages 8-12. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers...See less
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* Reading level: Ages 4-8 * Hardcover: 64 pages * Publisher: HarperCollins (October 7, 1992) * Language: English *...
(09/28/07) * Reading level: Ages 4-8 * Hardcover: 64 pages * Publisher: HarperCollins (October 7, 1992) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0060256656 * ISBN-13: 978-0060256654 * Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches * Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: based on 549 reviews. (Write a review.) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #358 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?)See less
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On the road to the village of Treegap is a wood. The wood is owned by the exacting Foster family, but they never venture...
(09/28/07) On the road to the village of Treegap is a wood. The wood is owned by the exacting Foster family, but they never venture inside. No one, in fact, ever goes into the wood--even the cows avoid it. One day, however, Winnie Foster decides to run away, and she takes the road into the wood. There, she discovers the secret of the bohemian Tuck family--a family who made the mistake of drinking from a magical spring in the heart of the wood. Those who drink from the spring never grow old and remain the same age forever. Author Natalie Babbitt's story "Tuck Everlasting" is written with a smooth, quaint style reminiscent of classic fairy tales. And just as the great classic fairy tales cause children to think about certain ethical dilemmas, "Tuck Everlasting" brings many moral questions to the fore. I would have loved to have had this book for my children when they were small--what fun we would have had discussing the questions that cross Winnie's mind. Is it, for example, a good thing, to live...See less
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I've always been a big fan of Judy Blume, and she didn't disappoint in "Just As Long...." As always, Blume is a master...
(09/28/07) I've always been a big fan of Judy Blume, and she didn't disappoint in "Just As Long...." As always, Blume is a master in getting into the heads of young teens, and though Stephanie is the narrator in this installment (Rachel narrates in Here's To You Rachel Robinson, and Blume has mentioned that she'd like to write a book from Allison's POV), Rachel and Allison are equally as compelling. Overall, this is funny, poignant and realistic look at what happens when a kid enters junior high and begins to question his or her place in the world. As for the handful of reviewers who complained that parts of this book are "obscene" because the girls discuss kissing and sex. Come on, let's not be stuck in the Pilgrim days here. These girls are 13 - of course they're going to be thinking about boys, getting their periods, etc. Which 13 year old hasn't? Whether the subject matter is appropriate for younger kids to read is up to parents to decide, but Blume doesn't try to pretend this isn't anything...See less
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Amazon.com Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series. It is Louis who brings about the collision of the fang and voodoo universes. Louis made Claudia a vampire in Rice's classic Interview with the Vampire, in which she was destroyed, and now he's obsessed with raising her ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the beyond. (Claudia physically resembles Rice's young daughter who died of a blood-related illness. Rice nearly died of a diabetic coma in 1998, and writing Merrick turned her excruciating recovery into an exhilarating burst of creativity). Vampire David...See less
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I bought this book having already read each of the vampire chronicles, as well as several of the "New Tales of the...
(09/28/07) I bought this book having already read each of the vampire chronicles, as well as several of the "New Tales of the Vampires". It was probably a good thing too, as it's quite possible that if you haven't read all the books, the Companion will give away some very important plot twists. However, the book is obviously meant as a guide and reference point for people who are already very familiar with Rice's vampires, and not for people who are too lazy to read the books. A mind-bendingly comprehensive "encyclopedia" of everything you could possibly want to know about anything to do with the first 5 vampire chronicles. This book is made even stronger by the fact that it was written in conjunction with Anne Rice, and as such contains many asides and comments from her on the development of her characters, how she feels about them, and of course, the much-publicised parallels between the child vampire Claudia and her own daughter, who died of leukaemia at the age of 5. While there are many...See less
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Amazon.com The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud. Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history. Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere...See less
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Amazon.com In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale Interview with the Vampire (in which Armand, played by Antonio Banderas in the film version, made his first appearance as director of the Théâtre des Vampires). The story begins in the aftermath of Memnoch the Devil. Vampires from all over the globe have gathered around Lestat, who lies prostrate on the floor of a cathedral. Dead? In a coma? As Armand reflects on Lestat's condition, he is drawn by David Talbot to tell the story of his own life. The narrative abruptly rushes back to 15th-century Constantinople, and the Armand of the present recounts the fragmented memories of his childhood abduction from Kiev. Eventually, he is sold to a Venetian artist (and vampire), Marius. Rice revels in descriptions of the sensual relationship between the young and still-mortal Armand and his vampiric mentor. But when Armand is...See less
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Amazon.com In the past few years, many fans have sworn off Anne Rice, flinging her later novels against the wall with...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com In the past few years, many fans have sworn off Anne Rice, flinging her later novels against the wall with cries of "First draft!" and "Never again!" But these same fans may want to take a chance on her Southern gothic Blackwood Farm, a fast-paced and erotically charged, though uneven, novel of the Vampire Chronicles. Blackwood Farm has an unusual flaw: it isn't long enough. Many of its triumphs and tragedies demand more development than they receive. Motivations are sometimes unlikely or unexplained, and the ending is far too rushed. Blackwood Farm introduces Quinn Blackwood, the sexy, eccentric young gentleman who becomes both a vampire and the heir to the Blackwood estate. All his life, Quinn has been haunted by Goblin, a doppelgänger no one else can see--or believe in. But Goblin is real, and he is becoming maliciously tangible, strengthened by the blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous doppelgänger is to find...See less
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Amazon.com Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and beloved scholar. We've heard parts of his tale in past volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, but never so completely and never from his own lips. In Blood and Gold, Rice mostly (but not entirely) avoids the danger of treading worn ground as she fills out the life and character of Marius the Lonely, the Disenchanted, the Heartsick--a 2,000-year-old vampire "with all the conviction of a mortal man." Plucked from his beloved Rome in the prime of his life and forced into solitude as keeper of the vampire queen and king, Marius has never forgiven the injustice of his mortal death. Thousands of years later, he still seethes over his losses. Immortality for Marius is both a blessing and a curse--he bears "witness to all splendid and...See less
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From Publishers Weekly For her 25th fan-pleasing outing, Rice reunites some of her most popular creations and, for the...
(09/28/07) From Publishers Weekly For her 25th fan-pleasing outing, Rice reunites some of her most popular creations and, for the first time since Memnoch the Devil (1995), lets the Vampire Lestat "write" the book. Taking up where last year's Blackwood Farm ended, the now-doppelganger-free Quinn Blackwood and Lestat save Quinn's true love, the witch Mona Mayfair, from certain death by making her an immortal. In his effort to attain sainthood, Lestat must deal with a lot of metaphysical angst. The opulent Blackwood estate and its spooky swamps, as well as New Orleans and a Caribbean isle, provide the settings for many elegant costume changes as the exquisite vampiric triumvirate gleefully suck several deserving victims dry and lay waste to dozens of a drug lord's minions. The vampirisation of young Mona, a true child of our times, gives Rice a dynamic new vampire personality with whom to play. Writing as if her blood-inked quill were afire, Rice seems truly possessed by her Brat Prince of darkness...See less
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Amazon.com It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to...See less
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Amazon.com In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep...See less
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Amazon.com Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the...
(09/28/07) Amazon.com Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, Vittorio, is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books. Rice has called Vittorio her vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire. One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula's ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure. Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to...See less
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