What the hell does that mean, anyway?
I know what Democracy is and I what what Proletariate is, but I don’t quite understand what she means by the way she used those words in the context of her rant.
Oh dear. All of Ms. Rice’s other books in the Lestat series have received really good ratings on Amazon. This one has not. Hmmm. Did it ever occur to her that there was a reason, other than a grand conspiracy by stupid readers, that the most recent book was the only one to receive crappy reviews?
I’ve reluctantly given negative reviews at Amazon of two of my favorite authors – Diana Gabaldon and Janet Evanovich. Both have given me hours of reading pleasure and I highly recommend their series. They are unequivocably very talented and entertaining writers. Their recent books were not their best work. And I posted what I honestly thought at Amazon.
Of course, I’d never say to her face what I’ve written at Amazon. It just wouldn’t be nice. It pains me to think that Ms. Rice read the criticisms of her book and was so stung that she lashed out in such an inappropriate way. She comes across as being beyond defensive and is surely alienating people who have been very loyal fans, this latest book aside.
I try very hard to live by the philosophy that if you find yourself shaking with anger as you’re typing, you should not hit the “Submit” button on message boards. Rather you should take a day off to go feed the ducks. Ducks are great for giving perspective. Too bad Ms. Rice didn’t go feed some ducks.
I’m wondering why the cow didn’t mention the upcoming Broadway musical in her rant about why the series is “so good.”
I dare you to email her and suggest she does this - may help with the ego reduction?
She has posted a follow-up to this whole debacle on her own site: http://www.annerice.com/msg092604a.htm and she still claims that she will send a refund to whoever demands it.
Is anyone sort of hoping Anne’s going to start running vanity searches on the web and find this thread? It’d be our first celebrity troll!
She wouldn’t come entertain us at Fandom_Wank when someone e-mailed her a direct link, so it’s highly unlikely she’ll find this thread on her own.
My favorite line was
Oh, that’s a doozy! She claims she never heard of flame wars? Da’fuck?
Doesn’t the Queen of The Damned movie cover both The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned ? That’d make 2 cinema movies = 3 books
When she became rich and famous she made a deliberate and acknowledged decision to cut off all contact with her friends and make new friends among the jet-setting crowd. She said something like “I’m a different person now and so I need different friends.”
She also had an affair with a married FBI agent. When the agent’s husband found out he flipped out and took a priest hostage and threatened to torch the church. Of course the hostage-taking wasn’t Cornwell’s fault, but drama seems to follow her.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. It’s still a stupid sentence, though.
Didn’t they turn that into a Law & Order episode?
She seems to cultivate a particularly gothic way of ‘speaking’, her phrasing can be archaic. Not a big deal, I read the first 2 books and got about 30 pages into the third when I gave up reading her. Also managed to get halfway into teh first Beauty book before i was laughing too hard to finish them, so some D/s friends and I passed them around and did ‘selected readings’ with sound effects while on a drive of about 3 hours.
I agree, once you know what it is it makes sense but I doubt many people know what larded means.
Yup. Obviously there were some differences, but a lot of the story tracked. Patricia Cornwell befriended the couple as part of her research for a book. As I recall, the L&O episode had the same setup.
I followed the whole thing in the papers and it was really bizarre. At first all anybody knew was that some FBI agent flipped out and took a priest hostage which is bizarre by itself. Then it was reported that it was due to a lesbian affair. Finally, Patricia Cornwell was revealed as the other woman.
Now you’re making me wish I hadn’t gotten rid of my Beauty books! My husband and I have a long drive ahead of us in the next few weeks. Damn.
Lord, I have no idea. I was pondering that myself… I can see how one would love democracy, and how one would be a proletariate, but… uh, yeah. I haven’t the slightest. She’s a pretentious heifer – just chalk it up to that.
I have no problem believing that. She’s relatively new to the Internet in terms of communicating with other people, even though her website has been running for years. What she used to do is post phone messages on a hotline, which someone would also transcribe and post on her site. Her open letters are usually handwritten or dictated and then her webmaster takes care of the rest. You’ll note her e-mail address was a mac.com one. That alone should say something about her Internet skills. …not that there’s anything wrong with Macs. Hee.
AAghhh!!! My eyes!!!
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.
I hope her books are better written…
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.