# Anne Rice, get over yourself
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810 "2004-09-24T02:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/1 "2004-09-24T02:37:02Z")
[Rice blasts Amazon.com reviewers for negative reviews](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1095804613613&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630%3C/a).
Anne, I think you have officially jumped the shark.
And you need an editor. Christ.
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### Author:  [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/2 "2004-09-24T02:44:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> The site’s Canadian version, Amazon.ca, stirred controversy in February when it advertently revealed the real identities of the readers posting reviews, and it emerged that several prominent authors used pen names to post five-star reviews for themselves or their friends.
I missed this!
Anyway, Anne Rice. All I can say is haw haw.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/3 "2004-09-24T02:45:31Z")
We are after all talking about a woman who dresses like an end table and wants to have sex with vampires. It goes without saying she takes herself VERY seriously.
Terrific headline, though, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/4 "2004-09-24T03:11:32Z")
[QUOTE…you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies.[/QUOTE]
Hellish lies!!!
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### Author:  [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/5 "2004-09-24T03:18:47Z")
Meh, [old](http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/515245.html)[news](http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/517397.html).
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### Author:  [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/6 "2004-09-24T03:26:51Z")
Oops. [A corrected version of the second link.](http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/517397.html)
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/7 "2004-09-24T03:42:04Z")
Negative reviews are no fun. I understand Rice’s feelings. Granted, the total circulation of every book I’ve written is only a small fraction of the first print run for an Anne Rice book, but I still understand the glow of a good review and the sting of a bad one.
You’d think after writing for a few decades, Rice would understand that you can’t please everybody. When you get a bad review, you move on, rather than throwing a public hissy fit. It’s unprofessional and doesn’t accomplish a darned thing (except generating more negative comments on Amazon).
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### Author:  [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/8 "2004-09-24T03:51:13Z")
When Anne Rice decided she was the some form of city protector here in New Orleans, I figured she was a going overboard. She fought to have a Restaurant kept from opening on St. Charles Avenue because she felt it didn’t fit the areas image. Being Anne Rice, the local news gave her plenty of coverage but ignored everyone else’s opinion.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/9 "2004-09-24T03:57:58Z")
> [@The Long Road](#):
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> When Anne Rice decided she was the some form of city protector here in New Orleans, I figured she was a going overboard. She fought to have a Restaurant kept from opening on St. Charles Avenue because she felt it didn’t fit the areas image. Being Anne Rice, the local news gave her plenty of coverage but ignored everyone else’s opinion.
I heard it was because the site for the restaurant was supposedly where she had Lestat’s final resting place.
God, what a drama whore.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/10 "2004-09-24T04:06:57Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Anne, I think you have officially jumped the shark.
I thought she jumped the shark a _loooong_ time ago.
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### Author:  [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/11 "2004-09-24T04:12:55Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> I heard it was because the site for the restaurant was supposedly where she had Lestat’s final resting place.
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> God, what a drama whore.
The reason she gave on the news was that the the side of the building would be gaudy compared to the rest of the area. Anyone who knows Al Copeland knows he does gaudy well.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/12 "2004-09-24T05:16:35Z")
> [@yosemite](#):
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> I thought she jumped the shark a _loooong_ time ago.
Based on _Interview with a Vampire_, it’s my considered opinion that Anne Rice came pre-jumped.
[Related funny.](http://www.somethingpositive.net/)
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/13 "2004-09-24T05:30:42Z")
Her purple prose makes Ayn Rand look brief and too the point. Ayn Fucking RAND.
(And for those who don’t know my opinions of Rand, that’s saying something!)
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/14 "2004-09-24T05:55:25Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Based on _Interview with a Vampire_, it’s my considered opinion that Anne Rice came pre-jumped.
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> [Related funny.](http://www.somethingpositive.net/)
“Kornholed by Koontz extravaganza” priceless. 😃
Somewhere on this board is a comment by someone to the effect of, “In my day, vampires weren’t whiny little bastards who drank blood and complained about it. In my day, vampires liked nothing better than drinking blood!”
**Miller** , I agree with you completely about Rice being pre-jumped. If you read between the lines in interviews that Rice has given discussing that book, you realize that it’s basically a recounting of her life just prior to writing the book. Must have been great to be a kid in that house, huh? Both your parents raging alcoholics who constantly whined and bitched.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/15 "2004-09-24T21:21:53Z")
From the article:
> [@](#):
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> Three books in the series have become feature films.
Eh? Interview, Queen of the Damned, and?
Anne, sweetie, it’s not slander if what they’re saying is TRUE. For the love of all that’s holy, back AWAY from the computer.
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### Author:  [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/16 "2004-09-24T21:32:56Z")
> [@bobkitty](#):
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> From the article:
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> Eh? Interview, Queen of the Damned, and?
I don’t know if it’s in the series, but the only other movie of hers I can think of is Exit to Eden.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/17 "2004-09-24T21:38:01Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Based on _Interview with a Vampire_, it’s my considered opinion that Anne Rice came pre-jumped.
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> [Related funny.](http://www.somethingpositive.net/)
Damn you! I wantd to post the S\*P link!
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/18 "2004-09-24T23:43:28Z")
Anne Rice is nuttier than a pecan log. Did you see what she posted on her site?
> [@](#):
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> "TO MY READERS: A CONFIRMATION
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> My Email is [Anneobrienrice@mac.com](mailto:Anneobrienrice@mac.com), and I have posted a rebuttal to reviews of Blood Canticle on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), and I have posted my Email there and I have answered some of the people who have written to me. The response has been very good. There are reports of some one on the web impersonating Lestat, convincing readers that he is the character. There is no Lestat on the web. Anyone claiming to be Lestat online or anywhere is lying to people, or engaged in a game, depending on one’s point of view. I am investigating these latest impersonations because people have advised me that the Lestat impersonator is having a bad effect on people. This I can not allow. Take care and love, from Little Paradise in Louisiana, Anne Rice."
Err… o-kay…
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/19 "2004-09-24T23:49:33Z")
> [@yosemite](#):
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> I thought she jumped the shark a _loooong_ time ago.
Really? I thought she bit its neck, sucked it dead, and cloacabanged the cartilaginous corpse.
Wonder who **I** was thinking about.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/20 "2004-09-24T23:52:57Z")
Wait wait wait.
You mean, there’s a person… on the internet… who uses the name “Lestat”?
I’M SHOCKED! SHOCKED AND AMAZED!
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