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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
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Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
The book s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Pages 256
Dimensions: Length: 9.2" Width: 5.6" Height: 0.6"
Release Date Mar 4, 2008
Publisher RANDOM HOUSE #22
ISBN 1400043522
EAN 9781400043521
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 | Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana Mar 31, 2010 |
I am not finished reading this, but it is proving to be as interesting to me as the first in this series from Anne Rice. The depth of historical and theological research is astounding.
Well done, once again, Mrs. Rice. | | |  | The Road to Canna Mar 8, 2010 |
| I thoroughly enjoy reading this book. It fascinates me how Anne Rice portrays Jesus feelings and thoughts - interrelating passages from the Bible. | | | | An excellent 2nd book! Mar 4, 2010 |
| This is an excellent second entry in a story I thought I knew. These 2 books have filled in the majority of what the life of Christ could have been like, not just an open mystery. Yes, it is fiction, but Ann Rice puts everything she has into keeping this story as historicly and humanly acurate as is possible and has given me much to ponder. Anne Rice's writing gets better with each and every story she tells. Quite greedely, I pray for her a long and satisfying life. | | | | Christ The Lord The Road to Cana Feb 18, 2010 |
| I really liked this book. It makes the Bible come alive. You can imagine how people lived in those times. Anne Rice is such a good storyteller, she can weave a story, so you think you were there.Its easy to read and her story flows from the beginning to the end. If you like biblical novels, this book is a great read. | | |  | Christ The Robot Feb 17, 2010 |
"GOOD LORD," - How Contrived!
I've endured her lack of proper punctuation for decades, even enjoyed the surreal effects she's had on my brains hemispheres in running two disparate sentences together sans semi-colons (I think she's used TWO of them in toto, in ALL of her previous books LOL) but if she gets any sloppier it will pass from merely disjointed into the realm of unintelligible entirely.
She is clearly an idolater at heart, spinning shiny-shiny bling images, and merely categorical idols, together in previously-interesting mental Mosaics, but in these books on Jesus Christ she goes FAR too far in so-doing.
Her "Jesus" constantly refers to His First Person self as "Christ The Lord," a redundancy if ever there was one, for the Christ means merely The Messiah... He thus only self identifies as "The Messiah, The Lord." Why not keep going, then? As: "The Messiah, The Lord, The Greatest, The Etcetera...!?"
;-)
I'm afraid she has simply taken Catholic-Church-approved and vetted lists of "facts" and strung them all together... her robotic version of Christ acts as a somnambulist, whose empty head serves merely as an echo-chamber for the thoughts of others; a hologram image of Christ derived from centuries of wary and self-flagellating committee-thinking.
I 'Believe' it's merely an evasive way for her to cover up and obscure her own true self, to avoid some navel-gazing sense of "guilt," to avoid censure and blame, in case of missing some niggling, sacred 'detail,' in the odious way of ritualization; some sort of myopically self-entranced, hop-scotch stations of the cross re-enactment.
She is inflicting some sort of internalized, delusive and masochistic penance on herself, in writing these wooden books... and we, her loyal admirers, are thus-forced to suffer along with her, albeit not in precisely the same way.
And it reflects so-poorly upon her; her writing has become laboured and boring. Her own inserted self's ex-machina 'Bruria' character, still merely speaks in the same tired voice of her ancient L'estat. The Ego has Landed, shot down by Time.
Moi? I so-miss the 'real' Anne Rice, whose earliest work actually inspired me to better see myself in the mirror, as the blonde and not the Blasco; I had given her such kudos in killing the old ennui, that to see her own mind dessicate like this is a real Tragedy of Error - what she no-doubt would still-regard as 'Sin.'
Has she herself become merely an empty-minded husk, drained of her great and apparently now merely previous potential, a tired, dust-filled puppet mummer of the Company line of the millenniae of time-worn and soon-irrelevant religious self- Salesmen?
And the back cover actually disengeneously states that: "The book's power derives from the profound feeling the author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the presence of Jesus."
*This* book's "Power?!" ...and... "Feeling...?" ...and...
"Summons UP?!" What a put-Down!
;-(
I snap my fingers: Anne! Come back to us! Awaken!
We - all - so-miss... the real you!
Your own Dear, Friend,
~Uncle Vladdi~
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