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Originally Posted by druid66
like i said theres exceptions.
but not anne rice. shes very very bad. every man in her book when is drinking starting to kiss another mans, all the time (read vampire lestat and few other). another example of moronic clueless writings of her was a man chasing by wolfpack during blizzard, the man (on the horse) turned back, draw his faithful black powder rifle and shoot one of the wolves, then he falls, rolled, draws another faithful BLACK POWDER rifle and shoot another wolf.. after that i've throw with my faithful arm vampire lestat against the wall in the train room (i was in trave then) and never again tried to read anne rice again.
guess you know (everyone know excepr anne r.) how black powder rifle works... small puff and bye bye to shooting.
ed.: and i agree with you with this diary stylish 18th century writing style, i understand it must be done this way, it's just was unbeareable for me at the time i was reading it, many years ago ;)
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That's why I mentioned Anne Rice's Romantic tendencies, though to me her first three Lestat/vampire novels and Cry to Heaven were amazing (if you can overcome any homophobic tendencies of yours...). But her Mummy and other novels really have that bodice-ripper thing going, which is fine if you can accept it as a convention... bugged me with the mummy books, but the witch novels whatever they were called were also quite good.
As to the old musket wolf-killing scenes... they convinced me at the time, especially if he (Lestat) had more than one rifle. It wouldn't spoil the whole novel for me...
Have you read Dracula? It's an excellent example of that diary/journal form of writing, and quite an excellent feminist tract as well, if you can read between those lines...
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