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Well, At Least Anne Rice Doesn't Have a Messianic Complex Or Anything...
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.

Yes, his own words. Lestat wasn't enough, now Christ the Lord is speaking through Anne Rice.

She even wrote a lengthy letter, as we well know is her habit, to go with advance copies of the book:

"I'm not a priest, 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."

A miracle, you see. I can just see the news now: Anne Rice Heals The Lame And Writes Crappy Book In One Day!

This is straining my Dickensean principles to the max.

ETA: Thanks to jessicareeves we have the entire EW article and excerpted "letter of truth."

"What does it feel like to be Jesus? What did it feel like to be God and Man as a child?"

Tune in for my book when, I, Anne Rice will tell you what it feels like to be Jesus. EXCLUSIVE!

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The full wanky article and letter from EW
jessicareeves
2005-05-08 04:08 am UTC (link)

the gospel
according to anne

author rice asks, what would jesus do?

suck on this, lestat: anne rice has a new leading man. after decades
of writing dense novels about witches, vampires, and other
paranormal beings, the gothic author is tackling an even more
supernatural subject: jesus christ. rice's "christ the lord", due
out in november from random house and partly based on the "most
respected new testament scholarship", will tell the story of the
christian savior's early years in his own words, a conceit similar
to that of norman mailer's 1997 novel, "the gospel according to the
son." rice, who has even abandoned her beloved new orleans, explains
her motivates in a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review
copies of the book this summer (exclusively excerpted below.)
whether christians appreciate the queen of the damned writing about
their lord is unclear, but mel gibson might want to look into the
movie rights. -gilbert cruz

Dear Reader,

For over ten years I've wanted to do this book- Jesus in his own
words. 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.
The ultimate questions, the ones distilled from a thousand others,
were so obvious as to be frightening. What does it feel like to be
Jesus? What did it feel like to be God and Man as a child?... In all
my career, I don't think I've ever faced such a daunting task. And
there were moments when I came near to giving up. I prayed. I asked
for guidance. I scrapped hundreds of pages. At moments, I was on the
verge of accepting that perhaps I couldn't do what had to be done
here...
I'm not a priest. 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 magnificient
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
of a story, and that story is Christ the Lord.

Sincerely,
Anne Rice

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	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW ladybirdsleeps 2005-05-08 04:11 am UTC (link)
	I couldn't do what had to be done here... sporfle! What, does she think she was called by God to write a crappy book about Jesus? (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW

zorayda
2005-05-08 07:30 am UTC (link)

The ultimate questions, the ones distilled from a thousand others,
were so obvious as to be frightening. What does it feel like to be
Jesus? What did it feel like to be God and Man as a child?

Of all the authors in the world, why did Anne Rice have to be the one to write this?! Nothing is sadder than a good idea for a story ruined by a bad author.

I think I'll just get a copy of Joshua and try to ignore all of this.

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	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW fandom_bitch 2005-05-08 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, that's what I find about Anne Rice. She has good ideas, but she's such a crappy writer that she ruins said ideas by writing about them. Sigh... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW moriath 2005-05-08 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	If I want to read about Jesus' life, I'm going to get Lamb. Funny, not pretentious, and written by someone a thousand times more talented than Anne Rice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW atalantapendrag 2005-05-09 03:44 am UTC (link)
	And Christopher Moore isn't a total shithead, either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW

darkvalkyrie
2005-05-09 12:14 am UTC (link)

But in humility, I have attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess.

So... what she's saying is that despite the fact that attempting to write about Jesus' life is a subject that should be handled with humility and sensitivity to the material, she's going to attempt it anyway?

LOLZ. Oh Anne, you card.

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	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW notjo 2005-05-09 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	Please tell me she's not using the Jesus Seminar stuff. Please. Please, someone. I'll give you everything in my pockets right now, which includes a very cute mini bottle of ketchup. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW phosfate 2005-05-09 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	The letter's even funnier if you imagine it read in Linus Van Pelt's voice from A Charlie Brown Christmas. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: The full wanky article and letter from EW shakeandbake 2005-05-10 07:11 am UTC (link)
	"P.S. If you really are a fake, don't tell me. 'Cause I don't wanna know." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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