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Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief)

Anne Rice

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Total reviews: 131 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good prices on a good set 5 out of 5 stars.
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Overall you can see and judge for yourself which of the stories work and which don't. In Queen of the Damned (which was a so-so movie by the way), the author moved away from the first person point-of-view (POV) which added a richness to the story to the omniscient POV.

She recovers nicely in other stories!

Overall a great series if you like vampires. Nice to get them all in one shot!!

Recommended.

speedy delivery + perfect packaging 5 out of 5 stars.
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same as the title...even this is an international shipment.

amazon, thank you!

Great Package 5 out of 5 stars.
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It was a great product. I was very happy that there were four books in the box set, it was very cheap, it got here in excellent time, and everything was in perfect condition.

Editorial Review:

For the first time you can find all your favorite night-stalking, blood-guzzling undead--Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Akasha, Armand, and Memnoch--all in the same place at the same time. Here, collected in one box-set, are the four bestselling, original titles of Anne Rice's sprawling vampire series.

Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (Christ the Lord)

Anne Rice

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Editorial Review:

Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.

It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea.

Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All who know and love him find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take.

And at last we see him emerge from his baptism to confront his destiny—and the Devil. We see what happens when he takes the water of six great limestone jars, transforms it into cool red wine, is recognized as the anointed one, and urged to call all Israel to take up arms against Rome and follow him as the prophets have foretold.

As with Out of Egypt, the opening novel, The Road to Cana is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book’s power derives from the profound feeling its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the presence of Jesus.

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel

Anne Rice

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A UNIQUE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF OUR SAVIOR AS A CHILD. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Anne Rice, famous for books such as "Interview with the Vampire" an "Queen of the Damned," brings her skills to tackle her most challenging work to date: a look at the childhood of our Lord and Savior. "Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt," the first of a planned trilogy, takes a look at Jesus during His seventh and eighth years on this earth, struggling to come to terms with His identity, as well as pondering the special powers He seems to possess, while returning to the family home of Nazareth during a tumultuous time, as rebellion has broken out through Palestine.
For the most part, Rice's novel delivers the goods. It is a fascinating portrait of how Jesus came to learn Who He was, and what His life was meant for. However, there are certain passages that tend to drag at times. Instead of focusing on the life-changing events of the time, Rice gives us details that, while interesting, just drag the plot out. But overall, this is an interesting look at how the Son of God lived at an early age. Christians and non-Christians alike should enjoy "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt."
Book Grade: B

Editorial Review:

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.

The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.


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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

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Total reviews: 258 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Spank me if I ever open this book again! 1 out of 5 stars.
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This book is the most repetitious book I have ever not completed reading. It takes a classic love story and turns it into ridiculous tale of bondage and punishment over and over and over again. It would have liked it better if Sleeping Beauty would have ate a bushel of apples and went into a irreversible coma on about the 3rd page. Oh, did I mention that this book is repetitious?

Totally awesome!!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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this story is really fun it gives you different perception of what's lust and true love means.... anne rice is so good!!!!! i hope everyone will like it.

Interesting.. 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Well unlike some of the reviews that I have read for this series, I find that Anne Rice's depiction of Sleeping Beauty to be interesting. The entire series (which I have read all 3 books thank you) is set to go beyond what we would percieve as torture. It tests the bounries of what a human body and mind can handle. If you can not be open minding to that then I suggestive not to read this series then. It is not ment to be set to what others think is okay (kinky wise)...as for the spanking..well hellooo! Spanking is one of the lowest form of digration!..

Editorial Review:

Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure.

In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

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Total reviews: 577 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.

While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)

Anne Rice

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Witches.......incredible book......rich tapestry 5 out of 5 stars.
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I loved this delicious book. This book is definately not for everyone. It is tedious reading, there is no question, the language is lush, detailed, lengthy yet exquisite. If you love the art of writing, you will devour it, if you are an under-the-covers-fly-by-night quick books reader it may test your patience. Early on this book becomes almost a bible of sorts in the mayfair history, generations are recalled, so-and-s begat so-and-so, once you weed through the early generational tree, a beautifully written and interesting tale unfolds. I found myself re-reading some paragraphs because they were so delicious in description, I was in that house, ever nook and cranny is opened to the reader, these people are revealed; every aspect these characters are real, strong and flawed, weak and becoming. The story is incredibly enjoyable and it is a great read once you get through generational leap. But I would encourage you to read the history and not skip over it, while it may be a bit tedious in length at times, its a rich tapestry this book and all the pieces fit together in the end.

Editorial Review:

In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being.

Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)

Anne Rice

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Editorial Review:

The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud.

Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.

Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's just that her imagination ran away with her.

If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo

The Sleeping Beauty Novels: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release (Boxed Set)

A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

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Total reviews: 156 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Repulsive 1 out of 5 stars.
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I have read all of Rice's books and am just floored by this one, and I bought others in the "Beauty" line. Such a nasty mind coming from what I thought was a lady. But the writing is very good, just a bad subject.

Absolutely hated it 1 out of 5 stars.
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I consider myself open-minded and progressive, so for me to say that I hated this says something. Tasteless, boring, redundant, pointless, ridiculous. Shall I go on? I made it through the first book, and have not and will not read the other two.

For the open minded... 4 out of 5 stars.
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This series is very strong and full of explicit descriptions. It is a good series, but it gets a bit repetitive. I think it could have been written in one book, not three.

Sleeping Beauty 5 out of 5 stars.
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These books are erotic and a take you into a world that is unknown to most. She paints wonderful images that stimulate mind and body.

Editorial Review:

Anne Rice casts her lurid gaze upon the the traditional tale of "Sleeping Beauty" under the pen name of A.N. Roquelaure. Her re-telling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Reminiscent of the charged erotica of her novel Belinda.

The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles) Book 6

Anne Rice

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A very decent and satisfying read. 4 out of 5 stars.
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I don't understand all these reviewers that have said 'The Vampire Armand' is difficult to read and a struggle to get through. This is Anne Rice, not Doesteovsky for goodness sake. As juicy and exciting as 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat' are, I don't see them as anything more than short, fluffy, and satisfying beach reads. And this book is no different.

But with that said, in my opinion, out of the six books in the Vampire Chronicle series, this one rates near the top. I would place it right behind 'The Vampire Lestat' and ahead of 'Queen of The Damned' for my favorite. I found the story to be very interesting and beautifully drawn out, the pacing was solid, and the prose was at times quite lyrical and beautiful. Armand has always been my favorite vampire. I think he is as complex as an Anne Rice character is bound to get and I could never have imagined the Vampire Chronicles without him. For many people, he's 'THE scene-stealer' of the series. For as long as I've been a fan of the books, the passages and subplots pertaining to him are the ones that I go back to and reread, time and time again.

Armand: The beautiful and vain monster with a face of an angel who used sex and seduction as a weapon and cruelty as his second nature, his constant back and forth stuggle between being a naive, needy, romantic-at-heart to a sadistic, vindictive, black-hearted murderer, his desperate need for comfort, companionship, and stability, his centuries as the leader of the Paris Coven/Theatre of Vampires, his love/hate, oftentimes violent/oftentimes touching relationship with Lestat, the obsessive and masochistic love he had for mortals and fellow vampires, the woe-is-me and intermittingly annoying, mischevious, playful, innocent, and childish persona... Everything about him is a contradiction, every part of his character is extreme. For those reasons I always found myself utterly intrigued by him. He is what a Vampire is to me, and I think he's an infinitely more interesting character than Lestat. While Lestat is a memorable and entertaining 'hero' of the series, I feel like Armand is the 'tragic hero'. He's the multidimensional one, the one that brings heart, conflict, mystery, and a sense of real humanity to the series. Say what you will about his overall importance as a character in The Chronicles, but you have to admit, he is, if nothing else, intriguing. There is just so much in his character and actions that could become fodder for a great novel.

Now, is the novel perfect? Of course not. The nitpickers will find more than a few anomalies with some of the details and linear storyline and most will probably wish that more was said about the Paris Coven and the Theatre (the two things most often associated with him). But in my opinion, this book, more or less, does deliver and it's everything that any fan of the Vampire Chronicles could wish for in a book about Armand.

And maybe I'm just 'weird', but I liked the homoerotic themes that went throughout the novel. The Vampire Chronicles to me is all about homoeroticism and (bi)sexuality, it's an intergral theme that connects the series and it's just as apparant in the other books, so I don't understand what all the complaints are for. If you don't have an issue with the homoeroticism in 'The Vampire Lestat' or 'The Queen of The Damned', you will not have problems with it in this book.

Editorial Review:

In the familiar style of vampire as seducer, narrator Alfred Molina (Boogie Nights) uses his smooth, tranquil voice to excellent effect, luring listeners ever deeper into the dark, mysterious, and blood-soaked world of The Vampire Armand. Rice has crafted an intriguing plot, one that expands on events from her earlier books, yet stands alone as a compelling exploration of the Cimmerian secrets that have shaded one of her most fascinating characters. Molina is a talented reader, and he revels here in the expertly crafted story line, lush language, and tortured emotions of a haunted soul caught in the eternal darkness that lurks between the living and the dead. (Running time: four hours, four cassettes) --George Laney

Beauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty

A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

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Total reviews: 53 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Very disappointing 1 out of 5 stars.
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I read the series to the end in hope of a night in shinning armour saving Beauty from a wicked world. But not. I skipped most of all 3 books to get to the end. In fact I probably didn't read half of either book.

I hope Rice never writes another book of this sort.

Light your smokes! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The ending was just as hot and wonderful as the beginning. This series is worth keeping as a collection item. I have not read anything this good since the Happy Hooker series. Anne Rice rocks!

Editorial Review:

In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of his harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all of Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's secret world and makes the Beauty series an incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.