Comments on: Vampires for Jesus!

By: scott rassbach

scott rassbach — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:05:09 +0000

I’ve read a bunch of her books. She’s … a tough read.

I can only imagine what this will be like. I might pick it up just to see.

By: James Russell

James Russell — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:48:54 +0000

I can see it now: Anne Rice writing the sequel to the film Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter…

By: Gouda

Gouda — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:35:36 +0000

Jesus certainly disappointed certain parts of his “King of the Jews, kick the Romans out,â€ fan base back in the day.

Don’t dig or trust brilliant PR stunts, but this would be kinda artful judged on its own terms. Maybe it is something more than just a corporate PR profit gambit, eh?

At the very least, she will pick up some of Karl Rove’s moral values christian (data)base, which may be bigger than the fan base she had before.

By: alistair

alistair — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:06:57 +0000

if ann rice was interested in her fan base loyalty she would have written her new book under another name. pure public relations, but why not? good for her and good for writers in general.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:51:43 +0000

Yeah, it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to go from “vampires” to transubstantiation and “drinking The Blood and eating the Body of Christ on Sunday.”

It’s pretty interesting to wonder how her “cult following” have reacted. What happens to a person living in that mentality a little more obsessively when their ‘leader’ and life-inspiration flips the tables so drastically? I mean, I’d imagine it would be like J.K. Rowling writing at the end of her 8th book:
“And it was alllllllllll a dream. Harry Potter was still poor and useless and lived under the stairs, but he sure had imaginative dreams, now didn’t he? The End.”

And I agree, Interview with a Vampire was great.