# Anne Rice has found God **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557 "2005-10-23T20:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/1 "2005-10-23T20:38:28Z")
[“I promised,” she says, “that from now on I would write only for the Lord.”](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/) Now, I only read a couple of her books, but I know she had a huge fanbase. I guess no more stories about vampires? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/2 "2005-10-23T20:41:35Z")
Umm…yea? Looks like another Dylan-esque turn to Faith. We are in for some uber-sucky books from her now. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/3 "2005-10-23T20:41:56Z")
[Fixed link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/). Wow. I thought her stuff was unbearable _before._ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/4 "2005-10-23T20:44:20Z")
I guess her sales went down so she decided to jump genres. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/5 "2005-10-23T20:44:20Z")
That link didn’t work for me, even after correcting it. Maybe [this](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785289/site/newsweek/) will. Okay, off to read the story now. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/6 "2005-10-23T20:59:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Umm…yea? > > Looks like another Dylan-esque turn to Faith. We are in for some uber-sucky books from her now. NOW? What was her excuse before? ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/7 "2005-10-23T21:08:36Z")
From hassling her own fan-base over fan fic to half-baked political screeds about New Orleans, Anne Rice has always come off to me as a few sandwiches short of a picnic. This just confirms it. Christ is “the ultimate immortal”? Ummmm, yeah :dubious: And where did she find Him anyway? In the cellar in the creepy Victorian house under Lestat’s coffin? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/8 "2005-10-23T21:10:03Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > From hassling her own fan-base over fan fic to half-baked political screeds about New Orleans, Anne Rice has always come off to me as a few sandwiches short of a picnic. This just confirms it. You forgot the hissyfits at Amazon whenever someone gives her a less than stellar review. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/9 "2005-10-23T21:12:00Z")
In a related news story astronomers announce that they have discovered something which can suck harder than both a Paris Hilton “event” and a black hole combined! “We found that not only is it responsible for the celestial object now being referred to as ‘The Axis of Evil,’ but also the recent storm surge which devestated New Orleans.” Said Dr. Tiddles of the IAU. “It turns out to be the latest novel by Anne Rice. We’re testing theories now that indicate a large hunk of anti-matter directed towards Ms. Rice will destroy this new object. If not, then the entire universe is doomed.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/10 "2005-10-23T21:13:46Z")
Thanks for fixing the link…I don’t know what happened. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/11 "2005-10-23T21:23:47Z")
Anne Rice can write about a boy who _doesn’t_ get sodomized, and secretly enjoy it? She has changed. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/12 "2005-10-23T21:30:03Z")
You know, I could pre-empt you all and get in a _wonderful_ Catholic priest joke here, but I’m not going to, 'cause I’m above that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/13 "2005-10-23T21:58:00Z")
I don’t know. I envision such number 1 sellers as Interview with an Apostle Lestat, The TV Ministry. Exit _from_ Eden Cry to Heaven II The art of repentance The King of the Damed , and how to avoid him Memnoch the Devil II, JC kicks butt ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/14 "2005-10-23T22:03:31Z")
> [@Speaker for the Dead](#): > > You know, I could pre-empt you all and get in a _wonderful_ Catholic priest joke here, but I’m not going to, 'cause I’m above that. 😃 Oh, why start now? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/15 "2005-10-23T22:37:24Z")
> [@NEWSWEEK](#): > > Yet in the novel’s best scene, a dream in which Jesus meets a bewitchingly handsome Satan She’s still Ann Rice. She usually has some homoerotic subplot, especially when there’s a boy and a grown man in a story. Who else thinks her new book will have 7 year old JC being molested or at least lusted after by this “bewitchingly handsome Satan”? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/16 "2005-10-23T22:37:56Z")
‘I read this book called _Intercourse With The Zombie_ by Anne Gravy…’ – New Orleans street denizen in _Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras_ ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/17 "2005-10-23T23:13:18Z")
I don’t suppose He was behind the coffin the whole time, was he? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/18 "2005-10-24T00:00:01Z")
Just when you think Anne Rice can’t get any kookier she goes and proves you wrong. I stopped reading her halfway through Memnoch The Devil, not sure why it took me so long. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/19 "2005-10-24T01:24:58Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I stopped reading her halfway through Memnoch The Devil, not sure why it took me so long. That’s exactly where I stopped. Later, friends told me lots of people stop there. Just skip it and read the next book. Besides: She pretty much recaps all the important parts of Memnoch in her following book, The Vampire Armond. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557/20 "2005-10-24T01:38:42Z")
I’m sure Anne Rice fans are crying “Yaoillujah!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-rice-has-found-god/327557.md?page=2)