I enjoyed this a lot more than Prince Lestat. No long chapter after another about a multitude of characters we haven't seen or have barely seen before and don't care about. A smaller cast means more time for the characters actually moving things. Fewer contemporary characters, good since Rice doesn't write dialogue I could imagine most contemporary ( Read more... )

Anne Rice's Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis comes out November 29. It's Lestat and the vampires in Atlantis. And Rice claims she hates fanfic.

My head is too stuffed with worries to let me write, but I have been reading. With Stephen King's The Dark Tower series getting a movie--with Idris Elba as Roland the Gunslingerand Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black-- and the creators hope it'll be successful enough for them to make sequels and a TV series, I decided to read some books related ( Read more... )

Bored and flipping channels, I ended up watching Frankenhooker (1990), which was more entertaining than I expected, if you take it for the cheesy, trashy, B-movie, 80s-inflected cult horror comedy it is, Mike/Joel and the bots not necessary for viewing. I mean, there are exploding crack whores! The practical effects are hilariously bad, somewhat on ( Read more... )

I was already sure I never wanted to go on a cruise after hearing horror stories from conditions on real life cruise ships that developed mechanical failures, but Sarah Lotz's Day Four adds an additional sinister layer of the uncanny to the nonfunctional plumbing and electricity, severe sewage problems, decreasingly edible and ever more sparse food ( Read more... )

I just found out that Tanith Lee is no longer with us. I devoured her work. But I read them mostly as a tween and a teen in the '80s and early '90s, so I got the feminism and a lot of the sensuality but missed the queer notes. I'd like to reread now, but the Queens Library system has very little of her classic, old works that I'm most interested in ( Read more... )

I borrowed Anne Rice's Prince Lestat from the library out of curiosity and wondering if it'd be a trainwreck, especially since I remember when Rice decided it was her new mission to write fanfic for the Lord. Prince Lestat is not a trainwreck, but it still has some problems ( Read more... )

Peacemaker by C.J. Cherryh ( Read more... )

Looking at the Goodreads page, I seem to be alone in being unimpressed with Station Eleven: a Novel by Emily St. John Mandel. ("A Novel" because this is Serious literature by an artiste dealing with genre conventions like an apocalypse and the post-apocalypse, not something written by some genre hack.) Like so many books that have "a novel" as ( Read more... )

I didn't think this would happen: Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice is coming out at the end of the month.

I am not sure how I feel about her writing one more book about the characters I used to like. (I loved the first book. The second one is OK. The rest of them I can leave. In Tale of the Body Thief Lestat went sailing over ( Read more... )