[Petronski]

It's the most startling public turnaround since Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" announced that he'd been born again.

Startling if genuine, pathetic if feigned. Time will tell.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Now I have seen it all.

[pipecorp]

Fruit inspectors needed.

[gondramB]

"A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters,"


I've read the sleeping Beauty books she wrote. They are not in any way shape or form "soft core."

[ovrtaxt]

Cool. I hope it's genuine!

[DainBramage]

Wrtiing fiction about the life of Christ is not IMO writing for Christ.

Especially if she is saying He killed people then brought them back to life, or made clay pigeons come to life etc.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I have several of her vampire novels. Extremely well written, but I wonder how good this one is going to be? I didn't realize that she had gone through all that in the last few years, and maybe this is for real.

[silverleaf]

It may or may not be a turn-around. Let's see the substance of her imaginary narration...

[Dante3]

Dylan is "born again"?

[debg]

This ought to be good. Here's an excerpt from Rice in USAToday about Hurricane Katrina:

"But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us," Rice wrote. "You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music," she continued. "Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs."

[Graymatter]

I stopped reading Rice after Interview. Up to then she had something significant to contribute, about the marginal and the alienated among us. After that she was making sausage.

[GB]

Hey, if Alice Cooper can become a Christian, somebody like Anne Rice shouldn't be that big a surprise.

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ping

[formercalifornian]

She reads the New York Times daily. Her conversion is not yet complete.

[newzjunkey]

Call me a cynic: I suspect she's just looking to exploit another market after her flavor-of-the-month status expired and many of her vampire films tanked horribly.

[bella1]

Lets give her the benefit of the doubt and pray for her. If Jesus could change the apostle Paul in an instant, he can change anyone.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. unless she hit the motherload of all hidden docuements, there is very miniscule about Jesus' life at the age of 7 - let alone any statements he made.

As a Christian, I don't need to know what Jesus did or said when he was 7 - I already know what he did at 33 - and that sacrifice of HIS life for me is all I care to know.

[Cicero]

I read several of her earliest vampire books. They were well written but a bit sick. Well, I thought, maybe that is only to be expected in a vampire novel. Vampires are pretty sick, after all. But as time went by, her novels got much too sick to read. They also got more and more formulaic, and more and more carelessly written. So I gave up trying to read her.

Only a couple of weeks ago she revealed her character by coming out and blaming Bush for everything that went wrong in New Orleans. I expect that if she has been born again, it is somewhat in the manner of Jane Fonda.

[RobRoy]

>>"Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself.<<

Sounds more like "The last temptation of Christ" only maybe less malevolent.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, we shall see. Perhaps she will make a good story out of the genuine traditions preserved among the Copts, rather than using gnostic sources.