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 Prince Lestat – review Okay, so – I just finished reading Prince Lestat last night and I might as well say right off the bat that this will contain myriad spoilers, I’m in too deep to keep this in any way impartial and non-biased. It will be biased as all hell, but at least you can be assured that I’m very well-versed in the series as a whole and will hopefully know what I’m talking about. There will be a quick summary (prefaced ‘In summary’) of my opinion of the book at the end though, for anyone who might want my opinion on it without being spoiled by reading my rant – I mean review. On we

Okay, so apparently Anne Rice has just announced, on Chris' podcast, that she is writing a new novel in the Vampire Chronicles and it seems to be called 'Prince Lestat'. Now, by all rights I should be seriously excited about this fact - news from the Articulates again finally, splendid! But I'm not excited - I'm seriously worried. There are many reasons, not the least that title, I mean, I hope she is joking, I really do. Also, there is some info about it being set after Memnoch, but I don't know if that is true or not, since I unfortunately missed the podcast by a quarter of an hour and have the info from her facebook only. ...It's just

SPOILERS SPOILERY SPOILER SPOILERS Alright. This is hard for me. I have a thousand mixed feelings about this movie and now that I’ve watched it twice it hasn’t necessarily made it any easier to sort them out properly. I have several things that make my relationship to these new hobbit-movies an ambivalent and confusing affair. First of all, I keep expecting them to be like Lord of the Rings was for me when I first watched them, but the thing is, I was a child then, on the very edge of teenage, so whenever I watch them now or listen to the soundtrack, I get nostalgic and I am transported right back to that innocent and carefree t