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Post by lostmaiden on Mar 23, 2008 12:26:18 GMT -5
But I am sure that any fan of Lestat or the other vampires are always thinking of them and waiting for them with their arms open wide...
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Post by jehovany on Mar 27, 2008 21:26:01 GMT -5
Lets hope.....u know Anne Rice should right a book about what happen to him when he was in issolation in the church. About some angels or something.
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Post by lostmaiden on Mar 29, 2008 0:14:29 GMT -5
Lol! he already did that with Victorio.... I mean the angel stiff....
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Post by Lucy on Apr 3, 2008 12:16:52 GMT -5
Hopes dashed! I keep a fairly regular check on the Anne Rice official site, and that woman can't seem to make up her mind. I wonder if all those years with the vampires didn't scramble the precious woman's brain. Good thing she gave us such beautiful works before our hopes were dashed.
You'll see what I mean when you take a look at her latest address to Lestat fans:
"FROM ANNE: THERE WILL BE NO CHRISTIAN VAMPIRE NOVEL FROM ME.
In spite of a flood of emails askng for a Christian Lestat novel (a novel in which Lestat is redeemed), and my own comment about this in the press, I am completely putting aside this project. After prayer, meditation, and much pondering, I do not think such a novel is possible. My present focus has to be on my novels about the life of Jesus Christ and I do not want to revisit the realm of my earlier books. I thank all of you who have written to me on this, both pro and con. You have helped me to think out the question. I can assure you; as things stand now there will be no Christian Lestat novel."
And in yet another Lestat fan-bashing move she issues this comment, which of course is speaking directly to people like us, the perpetrators of the "Coven of the Articulate" stories:
"IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM ANNE ON "FAN FICTION" Anne has posted the following message regarding fan fiction: "I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes."
I love Rice to death for what she's created for us in the past, but really! I wonder if something in her life has been compromised, someone in the Church is controlling her, maybe? A priest who makes her feel guilty for wanting to bring a vampire to light?
Give me your thoughts!
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Post by Violet Twlilight on Apr 3, 2008 13:57:24 GMT -5
Well, about fanficion..we're not making any money on this and I don't think we are twisting the characters in anyway. To me, I think it shouldnt be an iusse but I can understand why she feels this way. Also if she is really worried about it, than she should write more VCs, because we need our Lestat, and if she won't give him to us than we'll make do ourselfs. We're not hurtig anyone.
About what you said...well, I think she might feel like god pushished her for writting about the surpnatureal by her lossing Stan. I don't think this is conssence but it's there. Even though yes, she juftied it to other chistans...but really it was for her own mind. I don't think she realized that. Also, she never justied her extioca works...(which were anything but chainsistn...) I think since she was raised cholatic that's why. I have lots of friends who were too and they still feel gutily and weird about sex, and anything 'ungodly'. Even though they aren't chaltoic now. It's something drizzled into them. I think she always carried that guilt of writting about vampires and magic, but as I said with the death of Stan, she might have felt as if it was a sign that Lestat should die, as she often compared them.... I don't know, I could be wrong but that's what I think.
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Post by Lucy on Apr 3, 2008 22:04:18 GMT -5
If she felt that way, then why not bring an end to Lestat? It would be simple to do and would still fit her own ends. She could have him realize his wrongs and pray for forgiveness, and have God speak to him and let him die innocently so he can come to the light.
Granted, it may not be a satisfying ending to Lestat fans like us, but it would fit her new promise to write only for God and it would at least give us some kind of resolution.
I don't think she should really condemn fanfiction if no one is getting any money out of it. Only if someone is making monetary gain from her characters should she be upset. Otherwise, when you write about characters that people come to love you have to be prepared for that love. People only want to make him a part of their lives, so they write about him. If she didn't want her characters to be used and known, she should never have written about them. And we're all very glad she did. Else we wouldn't have found each other. She should be happy her own character has such a following.
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Post by Violet Twlilight on Apr 3, 2008 22:54:38 GMT -5
Like I said, I think she's not consseice of it. I just think she knows she's very uncomfortable about writting another one. Your reading logic into it when it's all deeply rooten fears. But like I said, I could be wrong. But I think I have a good understanding of phyicaogly.
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Post by lostmaiden on Apr 6, 2008 8:23:15 GMT -5
As Lucy said in the beginning, I think a priest or something is really next to her telling her what she shoud and what she shouldn't do. I mean, before she did not eve think like that. Look at the Mayfair chronicles... Her characters are disobeying many laws of the Church and everything... This is not Anne Rice, this is a brain washed woman... it is weird for me to say this because usually my boyfriend sais this stuff, and then I say it is not true and stuff, but in this case... When you see a person change this much...
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Post by Lucy on Apr 7, 2008 22:08:23 GMT -5
Yeah, the clergy of any church have a tendency to take over when a person is vulnerable, and I think her vulnerability came with the death of Stan, her husband. I think after he died she started thinking about rejoining the Catholic Church because she felt guilty and needed a reason to believe again as so many people do, and a member of the Church settled in on her life and probably influences many of her decisions. But that's just my hypothesis.
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Post by lostmaiden on Apr 7, 2008 23:04:41 GMT -5
Yea, I know very well what you mean. i do not know why some ppl need to do that with others, I mean isn;t it cooler to let a person be free and believe whatever h/she wants? if you just place the thoughts and everything, you are just creating a robot. I have a friend who is a Catholic priest and he is so different from other priests, I mean you can joke and talk with him about anything and everything is fun about him, he does not force you into believing in anything. He tells you stuff about the Church and you can believe it or not, he does not manipulate you. He is more of a teacher, wich, in my opinion, the priest should be, not a preacher, because we all make mistakes in life, even them...
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Post by oceansoul on Apr 17, 2008 14:22:20 GMT -5
I never knew it was possible to love a person's art and think they are a complete moron at the same time. It is hard to belive this woman who rattles on about salvation could have written the chronicles. As happy as I am to hear that Lestat may be ressurected, I would rather not have a new book if it is going be all about how great God is. There are plenty of other vampire novels out there, that are just as good as the chronicles, for me to read. Reading a novel should be an escape from reality, not a sermon of the Christian faith.
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Post by lostmaiden on Apr 18, 2008 7:21:04 GMT -5
First of all, Oceansoul, welcome back! Please come more often and post, we love to have you here again! About the Cristian thing, I do not have anything against people that read stuff like that, but I am not really into it. Someone offered me to read a book about miracles and stuff like that and her husband was outraged when I told her that I want to escape from my day to day life by reading vampire novels and stuff. People just do not understand this no matter how hard you try to explain that to them.
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Post by Lucy on Apr 18, 2008 10:33:34 GMT -5
Hello, oceansoul!
I agree to an extent. I think Anne has become a little whacked out in recent years, but I'm sure it's mostly due to the death of her husband. I wish she would recreate the world of Lestat for readers again, no matter how she has to do it. If it means that the plot contains Lestat's salvation and all that stuff and becomes a Christian novel, at least we got another one with the vampires.
I don't mind that she wants to write for God. I am not a believer in the Bible, nor am I all that Christian. But I respect the beliefs of others and what they want to do with them. I just wish she wouldn't bait us with talk of a new vampire novel and then turn around and basically say that part of her is dead now.
Her fickle nature makes me wonder if we won't see a Lestat novel whether she says she will write one or not. She could changer he mind next month for all we know.
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Post by lostmaiden on Apr 19, 2008 11:53:29 GMT -5
You know what is really curious? That she does not want to write any more about the vampires, but she is disturbed that fans of the novels use her vampire characters in fan stories. I think that is really stupid...
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Post by Lucy on Apr 19, 2008 22:06:10 GMT -5
She should really be flattered that we love her characters so much that we make up stuff ourselves about them just to satisfy our love for them. She should be glad to have brought something like that to the world.
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