# 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:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/81 "2004-09-28T13:10:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Lady, have you never heard of paragraph breaks? Holy crap!!! If I was editing that, I’d boot it back to the author so fast it’d catch fire from the atmospheric friction.
Well you’re **not** , and you wanna know why? Because she has “fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, [[Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) comment] writing is a virtuoso performance”.
First Jesus, then Rosa Parks, now Anne Rice. Such wonderful workers on the road to our freedom.
Didn’t she _sell_ the First Street house that she gives the address to? (That is [this](http://www.radioactivecat.com/sloo/nawlins/rc13.jpg) one from _Witching Hour_ isn’t it?) I remember it was on the market along with her 50,000 sq. foot orphanage St. Elizabeth and lots of other properties. She said she was “simplifying my life” (which is usually a euphemism for “I’ve incurred a sh!tload of debt”- I’ve no idea if that’s the case in Anne’s situation but I wouldn’t be surprised- a few years ago she had about four residences in metro New Orleans and luxury homes in Miami, the Carribean, NYC and Los Angeles as well as a personal staff of more than two dozen. Even with a bestselling author’s income you can’t do that for long without hitting a major wall (one or two novels that sell not-as-well as expected or some stock market reversals and pretty soon you’re down to your three mansions).
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### Author:  [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/82 "2004-09-28T20:32:13Z")
> [@Zoff](#):
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> In my opinion, keep hoping. I figured I’d give _Interview with the Vampire_ a shot because it seemed like an interesting premise. It might be the only book I started but never finished. And I tried to finish it three times. It just read like a self-indulgent “look at how descriptive my writing is” exercise.
I’ve never attempted reading ‘IWAV’ but I read the one about the castratos - can’t remember the correct title. I was quite fascinated by the lifestyle and the sex ofcourse, keeps you reading til the end.
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/83 "2004-09-28T21:33:28Z")
> [@MelCthefirst](#):
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> I’ve never attempted reading ‘IWAV’ but I read the one about the castratos - can’t remember the correct title. I was quite fascinated by the lifestyle and the sex ofcourse, keeps you reading til the end.
That would be Cry To Heaven, one of her best and most underrated novels.
🙂
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### Author:  [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/84 "2004-09-28T23:30:00Z")
> [@chatelaine](#):
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> That would be Cry To Heaven, one of her best and most underrated novels.
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> 🙂
Thanks Chatelaine, so could I be so bold as to suggest people try Cry To Heaven, before writing (he he) the woman off, totally?..Did I already say there was sex in it?
She must have done some homework too on physiology, cause the stuff about erections and singing voice changes, without having testicles seemed factual. Oh yeah, the historical stuff was interesting too.
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/85 "2004-09-28T23:38:32Z")
> [@MelCthefirst](#):
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> Thanks Chatelaine, so could I be so bold as to suggest people try Cry To Heaven, before writing (he he) the woman off, totally?..Did I already say there was sex in it?
> She must have done some homework too on physiology, cause the stuff about erections and singing voice changes, without having testicles seemed factual. Oh yeah, the historical stuff was interesting too.
Absolutely… I’ve always thought it was rather a shame that the Vampire books got all the press, leaving CTH, The Feast Of All Saints and Belinda to languish in the dusty unknown.
I thought her historical work on CTH was excellent. She’s the reason I actually purchased the work of Alessandro Moreschi, the only castrato to be recorded. You might remember her talking about him in the afterword to CTH.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/86 "2004-09-29T19:58:42Z")
> [@presidebt](#):
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> Please pardon my ignorance, and thank you in advance for correcting it, but what does “jumped the shark” mean?
I saw you got an answer to this, but you might want to take a look at the Jump The Shark [web site](http://www.jumptheshark.com/). It explains the origin of the term, and then goes off into discussions of other shows and when they jumped the shark.
From the Web site: “It’s a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on…it’s all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark.”
> [@presidebt](#):
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> Also, if the link provided is what Rice actually typed, then she sorely needs an editor. She has no idea how to use an em dash…
Is the handling of em dashes on the Web finally consistent enough to use them? I gave up on the standard character code a couple of years ago because (a) it’s a pain in the butt to type and (b) there was always some browser on some platform where it didn’t work right. I just type in double hyphens instead.
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### Author:  [@Lady\_Eboshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Eboshi)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/87 "2004-09-29T20:47:21Z")
> [@kung fu lola](#):
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> When something “jumps the shark”, it means that it has lost its former greatness and now sucks. It’s a reference to the shark-jumping _Happy Days_ episode that was the death knell of the series.
[This site](http://www.jumptheshark.com) should answer all your questions. 😃
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### Author:  [@Lady\_Eboshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Eboshi)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/88 "2004-09-29T20:52:38Z")
> [@Lady Eboshi](#):
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> [This site](http://www.jumptheshark.com) should answer all your questions. 😃
D’oh! Simulpost! :smack:
_ **must be the vampire hamsters…hampires?** _
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-get-over-yourself/265810/89 "2004-09-29T21:03:18Z")
> [@Lady Eboshi](#):
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> _ **must be the vampire hamsters…hampires?** _
Vampsters.
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