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rennyn_alerothi ([info]rennyn_alerothi) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-11-01 00:54:00
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CNN weighs in on Anne Rice's new novel.
Article here.

If this belongs elsewhere/my personal journal, I'll gladly move it. But I thought this was too special not to share.

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[info]ashenmote
2008-11-01 06:23 am UTC (link)
I mean, I've made vampires believable to grown women. Now, if I can do that, I can make our Lord Jesus Christ believable to people who've never believed in him

But there are already so many people who believe in Jesus Christ. Writing about the Easter bunny in a way that makes it believable to grown ups, that would be a challenge more appropriate to a gifted vampire writer.

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[info]caoilainn
2008-11-01 06:51 am UTC (link)
Why do people not believe in the Easter Bunny. There were always eggs to hunt at my house when I was a kid. Pfft.

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[info]vzg
2008-11-01 06:58 am UTC (link)
We did not hunt eggs, we hunted baskets of candy. I fear there may have been something amiss at my house.

Actually we still do if we're home around Easter...

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[info]seiberwing
2008-11-01 11:21 am UTC (link)
I saw the Easter bunny once. He's brown and fuzzy, just like Jesus!

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[info]tarash
2008-11-01 11:25 am UTC (link)
All right, how long before we get the first 'I am married to Jesus on the astral plane!' wank?

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-11-01 04:29 pm UTC (link)
My little tangent:

One time I was a substitute teacher's aide in a first grade class. One of the kids said, in class, that he didn't believe in God. Some of the students reacted badly and the teacher said it was his business.

I saw him later waiting to be picked up from school, and a little girl asked him "You do believe in Santa Claus though, don't you?" And he assured her that he did.

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[info]dejana
2008-11-01 07:41 am UTC (link)
"This is the literary equivalent of waterboarding."

LMAO.

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[info]bienegold
2008-11-01 07:45 am UTC (link)
That comment was AMAZING.

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[info]miraba
2008-11-01 02:13 pm UTC (link)
The NY Times review is here.

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(no subject) - [info]dejana, 2008-11-01 05:57 pm UTC
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[info]pipssister
2008-11-02 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Christopher Buckley has been getting exponentially more awesome ever since he endorsed Obama, I think.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-11-01 08:04 am UTC (link)
Her stories often are reveries with no end in sight -- and all too often ugly with pedantic unwinding, numbing in detail and overly simplistic, a pastiche of cliches.

My my, what a neat way to put everything I hate about her work.

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[info]mcity
2008-11-02 02:35 pm UTC (link)
I know, right? I gave up on Interview somewhere around the second century of angsting.

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[info]atalantapendrag
2008-11-01 09:02 am UTC (link)
Lestat is a "dark search engine" now?

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[info]dreamer_marie
2008-11-01 02:34 pm UTC (link)
OMG. This is so my new search engine. Not staring at a lightbulb FTW!

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[info]brown_betty
2008-11-01 05:20 pm UTC (link)
I don't even know what that means. I mean, in Rice's head; I can tell what it means on the internet.

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[info]platedlizard
2008-11-02 08:36 am UTC (link)
*sets to homepage*

That looks awesome, and it's probably easier on the eyes.

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[info]fresco_le_raye
2008-11-01 11:59 am UTC (link)
I couldn't even read the article, I was too busy staring in horror fascination at the ghastly pink pie-crust blouse and fake teeth

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[info]julian_black
2008-11-01 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Now that you've described the blouse like that, I can't unsee the vision I just had of Dolores Umbridge wearing it.

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(no subject) - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-11-01 10:26 pm UTC

[info]sneer
2008-11-02 03:41 am UTC (link)
My great-grandma wouldn't even have been caught dead in that, and she wore a petal cap and a muumuu to the grocery store on a regular basis.

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[info]ellensmithee
2008-11-01 12:48 pm UTC (link)
Rice isn't out to impress the critics, though.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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[info]dorothy1901
2008-11-01 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Of course she isn't. Critics, pfah. She's out to impress Jesus.

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[info]mercutia
2008-11-01 05:42 pm UTC (link)
Critics strain her Dickensian principles.

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[info]khym_chanur
2008-11-02 03:59 am UTC (link)
It's not for them.

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(no subject) - [info]sneer, 2008-11-02 04:33 am UTC

[info]mcity
2008-11-02 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Always over-the-top and beyond the rational,
Can't argue with that. Unless, of course, you're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-11-02 07:59 pm UTC (link)
I admit it -- I'm still snickering over the title of the article.

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