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Summary: Not so good...
Review: I'm a huge fan of Anne Rice and have read everything by her that I could get my hands on- but this.. It's been sitting by my bed for ages now and for some reason, no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to get through it.. It's just not as interesting and the beginning is too reminiscent of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens... The furthest I've gone is maybe 50 pages, but I've had to drudge through all of them.. I think this book would only be good for the hard-core Anne Rice fans.
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Summary: Where's the sequel??
Review: I'm a huge Lestat & Rowan (Mayfair Witches) fan and just picked this one up to pass the time...WOW was I impressed. The history and the way Ms. Rice paints the picture left me wanting more. I would recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: No vampires no witches no sex...
Review: I'm surprised that Anne Rice fans like this book at all; about all it has in common with her other books is New Orleans & purple prose. Which is precisely why I like it! "The Feast of All Saints" was Rice's first published novel. The setting & theme set it smack dab in the historicals market, altho the lack of graphic sex & bodice ripping probably disappointed those early readers. It wasn't until Rice hit the jackpot with her Vampire Chronicles that "Feast..." was reprinted & became a steady seller. It still ranks (along with "Cry to Heaven") as a curiousity to those fans. However, this is a review of this book. How does "Feast of All Saints" stand up as a story? Pretty well. The first half of the book is slooowww, mainly alot of introspection, descriptions & general atmosphere. The plot itself (what there is of one) doesn't really get going until page 300 or so. Even then the reader spends more time inside the heads of the characters rather than observing events. What sets this book apart is the depiction of New Orleans in the antebellum period, & Rice's ability to recreate the life of the quadroons, octoroons & others who were considered "colored" even tho they may only have been 1/16th African! It is almost impossible to imagine what these "gens de colour" felt as they were discriminated against by their own relations while still owning slaves themselves & continuing the racial divide that created them. Rice does a marvelous job of bringing their day to day life to a modern world.
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Summary: My favorite Rice book
Review: If you have been recommended vampire or other mainstream Rice books and not liked them, don't loose hope, you may like this book. I was recommended the vampire chronicles, and got most of the way through one and half way through another before giving up. The things I liked about the vampire books were flowery prose and a generally eerie and intense atmosphere. The storylines were hard to follow, for me. The characters acted impulsively without much logic or reason. I lost track of storylines because I forgot who did what why. Then I picked this up. It has the same flowery prose and intense atmosphere as the vampire books, but the characters are much more easy to relate to. The reader understands the conflicting currents in each characters life, and why they make the desisions that they do, even the horrid ones. If you like an extremely large and intracate psycological knot, Feast of all Saints has a great storyline. The fact that there's not much action didn't bother me. It illustrates how sometimes the most pivitol and difficult decisions made in life can be made without excessive drama. That makes such decisions no less important. This is my favorite of anything by Rice I've read.
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Summary: A Must Read for Anyone Interested in Creole Culture
Review: In this book Anne Rice manages to couple a wonerful storyline with a rich dose of historical data. She is not an imitator that helps to carry on the negative stereotypes about Southern Lousiana. Mrs. Rice has definitely done her homework on this subject and this shines through in her rich desriptive detail.. She was able to convey the attitudes, beliefs, and feeeling felt by this unique group of people to her readers. My experience with all the Anne Rice books that I have ever read were wonderful, but this particualr book stands head and shoulders above the rest. I would also like to know "where's the sequel?"
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Summary: Enlightening and Erotic
Review: In this novel, Anne Rice gets inside of the mindset of the people of color in 19th-Century New Orleans and Louisiana. She lets us in on the passions and despair of a people who are misunderstood and glamorized to this day. She is also careful to differentiate between the southern Louisiana creoles and the northern Louisiana mulattoes. I found this book fascinating, enlightening, and charged with the unique eroticism that only Rice can illuminate
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Summary: Difficult to stop reading until the very last word
Review: Informative book. Wondered what the significance of the title is in relation to the story.
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Summary: Just plain awful!
Review: It's as if she didn't take the time to create characters we care about. Truly unorganized also, we're with Marcel then it jumps to his mother it's really hard to read and to top it off, it's over 600 pages!!!!! Maybe if I cared about the characters I can get into the book more but this is one of my least favorite books of hers. Not thought out at all.
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Summary: Showtime adapted "Feast" into a film
Review: Just wanted to let fans know I have recently discovered that "Feast" was adapted into a 2 part film by Showtime in 2001. I have never seen the DVD's available in stores but found them by surprise on the shelf at my library. I was unaware of this adaptation. Amazon does have the DVD for sale for anyone who is interested.
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Summary: A top five favorite
Review: Let me start by saying as a general rule I am no fan of Anne Rice's work. That being said, this is truely a phenomenal book. This book is so well written you feel like you are there spying on the characters. Not only are the portrayals of the creole people chilling, so is the portryal of the city of New Orleans itself. This book makes me long to go back in time to spend an evening in the French Opera house or accompany the characters to the French Market. I have read this book multiple times and take more and more away with me after each read.
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