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Summary: It's great!
Review: After IWTV this is my favorite AR book! The characters are well developed and well written. It's amazing what Anne was able to come up with when there is so little info about these group of people. We learn more about what their lives could have been like through each of the characters and the issues and problems they had to deal with. I say pick up this book now!
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Summary: amazing!
Review: After reading nearly all of Anne Rice's books, I must say that this one is definitely one of the best. I fell in love with it!
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Summary: Eh...
Review: Am I the only one who gets irritated by Anne's constant misogyny?
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Summary: My all-time favorite novel!
Review: Anne Rice has managed to write the best, most historically correct piece of historical fiction about the free people of color of Ante-Bellum New orleans that I have ever read. This coming of age story about a young man coming to terms with himself, his culture, and the world in which he lives is at times both beautiful and disturbing. Anne Rice has atrue understanding of these people and this period of New Orleans history which indicates hours of research. The characters truly come alive and the story is heartbreakingly real. You'll love it! You have to read it!
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Summary: Thrilling and beautiful
Review: Anne Rice is a really talented writer, I think. Her words just carry so much meaning you'll want to savour them over and over. I loved everything about this book. Although at times it felt like the story was going nowhere it didn't matter because there was so much more to it than just the plot. She totally brings to life New Orleans in the 1800's with a beautiful narrative style. The characters she creates are so real as well. she has an excellent understanding of people and their motivation behind the things they do. She has also done her homework on the history which she manages to combine with the story VERY succesfully.
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Summary: Perhaps my favorite novel.
Review: Anne Rice is one of the most talented authors writing fiction today. In this, the best novel she's written that I've read, she takes us on the journey of a young man, Marcel, into adulthood, a journey not unlike that taken by Dickens's Pip. At once a fascinating story and a poignant view of American history. This is a must read
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Summary: Anne Rice's Best Book By Far!!!
Review: Being very interested in New Orleans history, I chose this book for the subject content. But after getting a sample of Ms. Rice's writing ability, I was absolutely hooked! I felt like I was actually IN New Orleans, and I could feel Marcel's and Marie's pain! Oh, if only Ms. Rice would write a sequel to this fabulous literary work of art! I would be first in line to buy it!!
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Summary: best book Anne Rice has ever written
Review: Enjoyed immensely. I have read this novel five times. The story is so captivating, I was immediatly swept into the lives of Anne's characters. I would really love a sequel, regardless of the quality of the writing. If you don't like Anne's other books, this would surely convert you. Amazing, isn't it, how sheets of paper bound together with squiggly lines over it can make such an impact on you?
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Summary: Great reading for long winter nights
Review: Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice has almost too much descriptive detail, and made the beginning slow reading, yet it was these details that made me feel I was actually there in the story. The character's physical descriptions were so vivid I could see them in my mind. Their thoughts and emotions were so well described I felt their dreams, their triumphs and their despair as my own. This book was written so that I lived through each of the characters. This book is written about the "gens de colour" in New Orleans before the Civil War. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them and then set them free. They could own property and pay taxes but couldn`t vote. The laws made them inferior to the whites but they could and did own slaves. They were considered socially inferior by their own relations yet in turn they felt superior to the slaves. It was a complex world and Anne Rice lets us see it through the eyes of the people living it. Through her characters I also learned to look at things differently. Through Jean Jacques, who taught himself everything he knew, the term "self made man" has more meaning to me now. When Marcel explains the spiritual and material, how he felt all things are alive, I look at material things differently. I enjoyed this book and while at times it seemed wordy and hard to read it was this wordiness that made it worthwhile. I could read it a second time and get even more out of it. This is what I consider a good book. Every time you read it you learn something new from it.
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Summary: Great reading for long winter nights
Review: Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice has almost too much descriptive detail, and made the beginning slow reading, yet it was these details that made me feel I was actually there in the story. The character's physical descriptions were so vivid I could see them in my mind. Their thoughts and emotions were so well described I felt their dreams, their triumphs and their despair as my own. This book was written so that I lived through each of the characters. This book is written about the "gens de colour" in New Orleans before the Civil War. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them and then set them free. They could own property and pay taxes but couldn`t vote. The laws made them inferior to the whites but they could and did own slaves. They were considered socially inferior by their own relations yet in turn they felt superior to the slaves. It was a complex world and Anne Rice lets us see it through the eyes of the people living it. Through her characters I also learned to look at things differently. Through Jean Jacques, who taught himself everything he knew, the term "self made man" has more meaning to me now. When Marcel explains the spiritual and material, how he felt all things are alive, I look at material things differently. I enjoyed this book and while at times it seemed wordy and hard to read it was this wordiness that made it worthwhile. I could read it a second time and get even more out of it. This is what I consider a good book. Every time you read it you learn something new from it.
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