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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Feb 10, 2006 9:06:08 GMT -5
I'm reading her book called Merrick right now. I'm only on the first chapter and its a bit confusing, but it seems interesting enough. I like the Talamasca, a secret organization that investigates and studies the paranormal. I've also been in a vampire type mood lately and so I've decided to read this book.
Anyone else read Anne Rice? This is my first book by her.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Feb 28, 2006 8:04:15 GMT -5
I have her first vampire book but havn't read it yet. She started a semi-mythologicalseries on Jesus Christ's childhood because she became a Christian recently, but that book got boring and didn't connect to much.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Feb 28, 2006 19:39:08 GMT -5
Funny how one so into vampires decided to go Christian. I suppose vampires are a very christian thing though. Interesting...
Any book that holds much truth confuses me. I hate informational books, or essays, or pretty much anything that doesn't have substance.
I do want to watch the movie Interview with a Vampire. The one vampire is so totally hot in that movie. Then again, the vampire creature feeds off beauty...according to Anne Rice. In most of the book vampires are very sensual creatures. It would be pretty neat to have a vampire that looks like a matrix character. Perhaps there is something like that and I just can't think of it. Ugh...duh...Underworld. That's the movie I'm thinking of. This new vampire movie the art teacher has is supposed to be like that too. I can't wait to watch it.
I'm still not sure whether I like the vampires or the were wolves better. They're both pretty awesome.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 1, 2006 8:18:57 GMT -5
Any book that holds much truth confuses me. I hate informational books, or essays, or pretty much anything that doesn't have substance. In the intro to the book it says why she went religious. I'll find it for you-- it's interesting to design different sorts of werewolves. Different gradients I guess. The statement above doesn't make sense to me. Isn't truth the ultimate substance? Cause it's real, unlike many things. |
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Mar 1, 2006 8:37:03 GMT -5
Is it though?
I don't like informational books. They are boring to me and while I'd like to think a lot of what is written in the books I read is true, they are FICTIONAL and I regard them as such. Substance is imagination...interest...creativity. Most informational books are not very creative. They state facts. As do biographies. I really couldn't care less about the details of another's life.
It doesn't really matter to me why she went christian. Actually, the religious preferences of authors and movie directors doesn't really sway my opinion of them as long as they don't make it prevalent in the books I read.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 1, 2006 14:53:05 GMT -5
Ok, that all makes sense. We don't mean the same thing by substance.
So did you read Interview with a Vampire?
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Mar 1, 2006 19:16:34 GMT -5
No I haven't, but I've seen part of the movie. If I like Merrick after I'm done reading it I may move on to Interview with a Vampire. I have so many other books to read before that though.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Mar 1, 2006 19:17:41 GMT -5
BTW, what you would consider substance? I imagine the definition of the word is different to everyone for the simple fact that people have different tastes for different things. I'm interested to hear what you were thinking though.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 3, 2006 7:55:44 GMT -5
I kinda was thinking my mom's definition, snrk; something intellectual maybe, that makes you think, that is concerned with real issues. Something to sink the mental teeth into. I see you mean creative 'substance', which is as much of worth but made confusion.
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