Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore...

[rj_anderson]

News item, gacked from yahtzee63: Anne Rice, of all people, is writing a novel about the early years of Jesus's life. In the first person.

Excuse me while I weep blood and then spork myself to death. I might have to take my friends and family with me as well, to spare them the horror of it all.

Comments

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Wow. Particularly after what someone from her hometown just told me about her personality and everything... that's pretty frightening.

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

Is it time to laugh or weep? I don't know. All I know is that Ms. "I Don't Need No Stinkin' Editor" Rice better not go comparing herself to Robert Graves.

[vaznetti]

Words cannot express how amused and horrified I am by this whole idea. A sick and masocistic part of me would like to see what she comes up with.

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

Would it be wrong to want to pray for her to have such a massive case of writers block that she abandons the project entirely?

[lucythedragon.livejournal.com]

Hold me. ;____;

[kissedbythegods.livejournal.com]

I think this may be proof that there is no God.

[sabrinanymph.livejournal.com]

This is really alarming, particularly concerning her attitude towards criticism.

Perhaps the editor will decide it is too sacreligious to actually publish? *crosses fingers, toes, self, and prays*

[drmm.livejournal.com]

That's ... scary.

O_O

[(Anonymous)]

She *must* be joking. "I'll never be able to speak the words of consecration at Mass"???

I have serious doubts as to whether she'd be able to speak the words of the Lord's Prayer without a random, unseasonal bolt of lightning suddenly falling on her head.

Heaven help us. This is simply too extraordinary to be believed.

Re: O_O

[(Anonymous)]

Ahem. Sorry. ^Twas me.

ISJ

[bookaholicgirl.livejournal.com]

*requests extra spork*

[erinbow.livejournal.com]

Dear God and all the saints in heaven. .... If you're whipping up a batch of koolaide, RJ, save some for me. (On the other hand, Ricci's *Testament* is challenging but wonderful. So wonderful I couldn't finish it, knowing how it must end up.)

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

I think it's perfectly natural that Anne Rice write a book about Jesus in the first person. The woman's obviously got a God complex - let her get it out of her system and maybe she'll be less wanky.

That's obviously a big 'maybe'.

Congratulations on finishing 'Knife' by the way. I'm keeping my fingers crossed you find a sensible publisher who loves it.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

A very big "maybe". I can't say I'm very optimistic about the prospect -- the woman's ego is the size of a small moon.

Thanks for the congrats, and I hope so, too!

[kerravonsen]

Arrrghh!!!
God forbid.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Ack! I am beyond startled...what on earth might she be trying to do by writing this?

*goes looking for own spork*

[greenhornet.livejournal.com]

madness I say!