Thursday, September 23, 2004
A lesson in why, perhaps, it's a good idea if a writer really shouldn't talk back to her fans (starts about a third of the way down the page). I stopped reading Anne Rice in the early nineties. Cry To Heaven is up there in my list of favourite books ever, and The Witching Hour has so much detail on the lives of the cast and the several centuries of their existence. But what were, at the time, the final books in her two series, Memnoch the Devil for the Vampire Chronicles and Taltos for the Mayfair Witches, turned me off her work and, though I've read a couple more of her books since then, I've never gone back to her. Her performance here isn't going to do much to make me think that's a mistake.
