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  • i truly admire Anne Rice, she is one of the best authors out there <3 as well as an amazing woman

  • Yes, I was raised in believing in her. I've known her for about 12 years and never has she let me down. She's always helped through those strong blocks and I believed in moving them..when I read her books! :)

  • To a great extent "Interview with a vampire" was a re enactment of the death of her child atn the age of five in Paris. Read the passage in qustion in the novel. It makes hard reading and is part

    of the reason why it is such a fantastic book. A quest to find light in the shadows.

  • @Spamhero if you are talking anne rice daughter michelle she died in ca not paris and it was before her fifth b day

  • Sorry my mistake. I find horror writing has generally gone down the pan.Rice's first

    work being a great exception .Almost everything right now seems to be

    a buffy the vampire slayer sendoff or just

    badly thought out.

  • I love Lestat *w*

    La mejor escritora del universo *___*

  • I love her bookes! And I like her voice^^

  • I read the books of Anne Rice, and the only thing I can say, It's that I love with all my soul her books.

    ¡Anne eres la mejor!

  • Being agnostic I actually like her thoughts on religion and Christianity, i find them very interesting and beautiful. Especially in The Vampire Armand, a lot of people critisized that book because they didn't like alot of the themes being about Jesus, but I really liked it and thought it was wonderful.

  • I think the main reason why people criticise The Vampire Armand and Memnoch is because they don't understand them. They are my personal favourites.

  • i skipped memnoch because I thought it was kinda boring...maybe I'll start again someday...

  • I wasn't there but I'd love to thank you for your hospitality in years past.

  • dang it. i wouldve loved to have been there 2 miss anne. Lestat Rox!!!

  • Oh I wish I was at this ball...It's a shame I live so far away, in Italy :(

  • I am just dying to read a new Vampire chronicles! Maybe explain what happened to Lestat while he was in his little coma. He explained it had something to do with him working with angels etc etc which he explained in Blackwood Farm.

  • I think it's beautiful, the message of struggling through the darkness to find light... to find a way to make something beautiful and bright and somewhat pure and special in dark times. Also, the way that her books take something so dark, and really strive to show that there is a necessity for harshness in some ways, in order for light to continue... that sometimes they work in tandem, but that ultimately we make out own decisions. That, I believe, is what I take from her.

  • wasnt anne rice dedicated no more to vampire books?....anyway,her books rock,she totally changed and gave another point of view to vampire myth,i admire her creativity in that,marking an era,and i wish i could learn from her...

  • Apparently, being a Christian, Anne Rice does not know that Christianity DOES NOT hold the mind to be eternal. The body and mind are limited to impermanence; only the soul continues on. It is the Buddhists whom believe that the mind is eternal... but then again, they believe that there are only body and mind. Not soul.

  • The mind is not part of the soul? I'll have to check St. Thomas on that one. Anne.

  • perhaps the mind and the soul are the same?

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  • Thanks for this Anne. That scripture piece was truly beautiful, that's coming from an athiest. I'm an oddity of sorts - a non believer who loves to study religion. I'm looking forward to reading your Christ the Lord series once I can afford it (damn being so broke)

  • The first one in the series in in the library, at least where I live.

  • Love the books, Anne, love the movies, seen the musical, loved all of it, and i still can't get enough of Lestat. He's irresistible and so are your books. Fantastic.

  • She is a true legend writer.

  • Deeply admire you and your work Anne, and have adored the Chronicles for many years.... but I have to say, after book 3 (Queen), Lestat seems to have lost himself somewhat. It seems to me that the Chronicles have become cheapened a little by forcing Lestat into rather mundane adventures (Body thief & memnoch), not to mention introducing the possibilities that a god exists? Doesn't this existance of a god negate Lestat's arrogance in the original book perhaps? I'm in for it now.....

    Keth

  • Keth, couldn't disagree with you more, but that's no surprise, is it? I think Blood Canticle was the finest, deepest, best of the bunch, after Memnoch, that is, which is the jewel of whatever crown I might have created there. But thanks for your input. The early books are....early. A.

  • Memnoch IS a jewel! For hours I would go on and on about Memnoch to my fiance, reading him passages from the book, to make sure I kept everything straight! As for Canticle: Blackwood Farm was the first I'd ever read and it hooked me. Quinn is an absolute doll, and withing 2 pages of Lestat's intro, I was positively transfixed. Having read them all now, I feel like Canticle brough him full circle: through heaven and hell there is still humanity there, still the capacity for love and goodness.

  • i love the vampire lestat.hes sooooooooooo hot,i also love his presonality."His eyes wich are forever parimictic and absorve all the light around him, making them seem a gorgus voilt.Truly the james bond of all vampires."I've always love guys with a personality like that.I just wish I could meet him,i'd do anything,ANYTHING that he'd want me to do.

  • Oh... Anne is awesome...

    I wish she would check her e-mail still though :(

    very talent and admirable woman.

  • Anne, choosing Antonio Vivaldi's "Winter" was the best. Much love and support!

    Jonathan ~

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  • Anne Rice's books are so enthralling, sometimes i have to step back and remind myself its fictional. I've read nearly all of her books twice and everytime i find something new, some deeper connotation. I find myself smiling when i read, and that is thanks to the wonderful mind of Anne Rice.

    Thank you from England. x

    Please tell me your favourtie character and why. :)

  • my favorite character is of cours the vampire lestat.i love him because of his looks,but not only that,because of his personality,what is really enticing to me is his parimistic eyes absorving all the light around him,making it seem a gorgus voilt.(P.S.-Dont remind your self that vampires aren't real.If they weren't real,then how could I be talking to a mortal like you?) Adiu mon armour

  • Exactly when and where is the 2008 Vampire Lestat Ball scheduled?

  • If you go to my personal website (just put in my name) you'll find a link to the website of the guys down in New Orleans who do the ball. I'm sure they're already at work. The balls retain their unique magic. I'm miles away on the other side of the country but I miss New Orleans and I miss the balls. Anne Rice.

  • Thank you very much. The thing is, I live in Arizona, and the convention is all the way in Louisiana! T_T Plus, I doubt my parents would allow me to go- my mother has a deep phobia of vampires ever since she saw the movie Dracula. I tried to explain how off the movie was, and that there's a whole nother side to vampires, but she doesn't seem to want to listen. Help?

  • How could one hate Vampires?

  • I suppose it's the whole blood drinking thing. She thinks they're demonic. I can understand that, but she is still dwelling on that many kill their victims, and can't seem to see that there's more to vampires than just killing and drinking blood. What am I to do? D:

  • My Parents would never let me go. My mother and father does not have a phobia but they simply hate me "reading books that could change my mind into fantasizing about something thats not real" as they put it. But, Oh, how I wish I could go.

  • Listen to your Parents, they know what is right.

  • Anne Rice is the best author in a whole wide world..

    I adore you!!!

  • Many of you might know what I'm saying here, and others might not. I know I might sound crazy, but I just don't want to believe her characters are fictional, you know? I love her books, and there is a burning, longing desire inside me to speak with one of these magnificent beings, specifically Lestat or Louis. If you want to carry on a serious conversation with me about this, message this account.

    ~Lestat de Lioncourt rocks my world.~

  • I agree with you.

  • me too...every vampire,,and in my mind and my world that characters are real...

  • I wholeheartedly agree. I actually refuse to believe that they are fictional characters. Anne Rice makes them seem so real, unlike other authors with their book characters. She makes it to where I can actually see myself talking to one of them. As I see it, if I do not wish to believe them at non- fiction, then I won't.

  • You are my hero. Please never change.

  • i love you Anne Rice, i'd love to marry you im 25 virgin for you here :D

  • God bless you Anne. And it´s so true that in the night time of my soul, when the darkness seems endless I´ll remember you and your Vampires, and I´ll look for the stars and the moon. Thank you so much.

  • What's with the bows, frills, modest li'l grey 'secretary' haircut and the bible thumping?????? Has her life been threatened by the Christian right?

    I am a fan of her BDSM works - the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy' particularly, as well as the vampire works. I found her, and her work, beautiful erotic and seductive.

    Anyone know the reason for this about-face?

  • Dear Greenmagik -- I have always loved bows and frills; they're Nineteenth Century and very Romantic. My vampires love this sort of clothing too. No about face on that, I assure you. Bible thumping? It's Bible reading. I recommend it. My books are all part of one long journey to Christ.  Thanks, Anne.

  • I find those clothes very elegant...

    Its truley miraculous that Anne replied to this comment here on youtube.

  • My personal experience, for the record, has been that in many ways, and about many issues, Catholics are in truth more Liberal than the Evangelical Christians. These are the ones who often sound to me as if they have had their lives threatened by George Bush, and the Religious Right.

  • Maybe could have helped more, though, and sooner.

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  • i only started reading them about three months ago and shes amazing, before i picked up the vampire lestat i wasnt much of a reader and now im reading constantly. i just finished reading christ the lord, tis a wonderful book and im not even christian ;)

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  • heh yeah i know what u mean, i read books that have been critisised loads but i dont see any problem with them! shes fabulous.

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  • yeah i thought the same thing, i think the only reason she turned her back on the vampire chronicles herself was because of the negative responses she got for blood canticle and memnock the devil. she could have at least wrote a finale or something..

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  • It's so sad. I really miss the Chronicles, I really thought something big was going to happen when Lestat got introduced to the Mayfair witches and Rowen and I was so looking forward to seeing what. But alas nothing and it looks like there will still be nothing to come. *pouts*

  • I loved interview with a vampire and the vampire lestat, but my favorite book has to be the queen of the damned. I love the story of the twins and I love the fact that all the vampire characters come together. When I pictured them all sitting in that room together it's breathtaking. Have to say I was so disapointed in the movie.

  • Is she now supporting Hillary Clinton now? I think read that on the blog somewhere...

  • She is, Its on her main site.

  • Amazing...I met her at 2000 and it astonishes me looking at her now as to how much she changed. She really lost all that weight...she is much thinner than my mom.

  • I think that Anne Rice is a very good writer and I lover Interview with the vampire and The vampire Lestat. But then I read Queen of the damned, The tale of the body thief and Memnoch the devil, and they all were good, but in my opinion they had not the same magic as the first two books. So it was kind of a disappointment, but I'm going to read Armand the vampire soon, cause he's my favourite, and hope that it will be the same as the first two books.

  • Check out Youtube AnneRicesite for the two mini readings I just did from the Vampire Armand. They might shed some light on the religious spirit of the novel. Thanks Ar.

  • IMO, you won't be disappointed :) I adore that book. Not to mention that Armand and Marius are the best(ok, it's persoanl opinion :P). Let's hope you'll love it as much as I did.

  • I love Anne rice and her fantastic historical novels,I love lestat,Marius and all of her heroes and heroines,but Pandora is my apple eye,I love her and her storyline in a different way,How I wish ı could live in ancient ages,ancient empires,how I wish I were immortal,vampire...

  • Esta mujer, es mi escritora favirita su pluma es totalmente un portal donde uno se desangra poco a poco en sus escritos, ella tiene una imaginacion explendida, y le dio un toque mayor al mundo de los vampiros lo oculto lo hace realmente bello.

  • I've been a fan for many years, met lots of great people through my interest and visited New Orleans because of the books, and met her at a book signing where she signed Exit to eden and tale of the body thief for me. Just wish she hadn't turned her back on the horror books she's written now that she's returned to the catholic church.

  • Is that why she's not writing more vampire books?

     Memnoch the Devil was actually the book that brought me back around to the church.

  • That's why she isn't writing any more horror books. I think she's still re-writing the New Testament at the moment, second volume due soon. I won't be bothering, its the Vamp chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair witches that interest me. I have read Cry to heaven, which is not supernatural, but still a great read-you read it?

  • personally the vampire armand is my fave of all...

  • Can someone here tell me what music that was playing?

  • Yes, Its the song "Winter" by "Antonio Vivaldi"...... Fool

  • The music/song that was playing at the end of her speech would be then?

  • say it! she has helped me alot i used to be suicidal but i read her books and the chracters really spoke to my soul.

  • not long ago, i was searching for things about anne rice's books and ran across an article about a boy who apparently murdered his best friend, drank his blood and ate part of his head. he blamed the movie Queen of the Damned for making him do this. many religious fanatics blame anne rice for this. they say she is Satanic and evil. bullshit. i'd like for those people who have blamed her to see this video!

  • whats the title of the book at 1:17

  • Blood and Gold, it's about Marius! It's really good!

  • ok! thanks! i should read this one!!!

  • It's good cus as long as you have read Queen Of The Damned, you should unerstand!

  • best book has to be bood and gold, about marius..well my fav any way!

  • i love her first two books, and pandora too...But lets face it, since Queen of the damned she's been writing poorly,"Queen.."and "the body thief" are acceptable, but the ending of "Memnoch..." is terrible!

  • Why is it terrible? I suppose you mean this as a bad thing, because I think it was terrible too, but it was just because Armand became a suicidal..

  • i am a strict athiest, but i have accepted the world of religion in her books, as they are ficticious books. this being so, i see the religion a part of the fiction, thus, part of the magic.

  • she was great, until she became religious, then she was good, but i still read all of her books, and am nearing the end of vittorio the vampire, and will them read blackwood farm, and blood cantile, i wish i could have a conversation with her about history, philosophy, theology, religion, anything along those lines.

  • i sent her emails, i sent her them explaining my views, and asking for hers. i expect she get thousands of them, and just has some employes who write back saying " Thank you for emailing, i appriciate it". maybe she reads a few, but i feel she will never read mine. Anne, if you go on youtube, and search your name and read this, emal me DanielMcnay at aol dot com, it was not the name i emailed u on, but i thought i should tell you.

  • What is the music that's playing? I love it..

  • I just love this woman, i dont care wut people say to me shes the best novelist ever!!!!

  • this woman is my idol!

  • are her vampire books still at the market...cuz i dont see any of them anymore...and i just wish i could buy all of them

  • AMAZING ANNE RICE!!! I <3 U!

  • My God... she is my favorite author of all time. I love this woman. hope she can keep on writing more and more master pieces.

  • she is an amazing author and is imortal for her work. She is also very good looking for a woman of her age, so all hail to her!

  • i love Anne Rice and her novels

    kissess from Egypt

  • God Bless.

  • I prefer the works under her pen names A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling. Much better than the vampy/witch books.

  • But isn't that just porno or something? Like Beauty's release? Or am I wrong?

  • by the way, will there be any further vampire lestat balls?

  • at first i was angry at miss rice for her new direction, but upon watching this video it has come home to me that she-like all of us is just trying to find herself--i cant hate or be mad at her for that and i dont think anyone should

    good luck on your journey anne

  • Anne Rice is the inspiration for my book. I strive to write as intricately as she. Her prose is the nirvana of my work. Thank you for posting this.

  • mi escritora F/F

    ^^

  • Meh the Vampire Chronicles were a right of passage series for Goths and metallers for about a decade. The subculture has changed and they have no place in a market they defined for a long time. better that they end now then try and conform to the new subculture

  • I love Louis and Lestat... Inclusive now that Anne decided not to write any more books about them... I will always admire her

  • We love you Ann. i sent you an e-mail from your amazing website :D

  • ANNE RICE LIVES FOREVER!

  • of course. Every writer does through their written word.

  • Anne Rice is absolutely fantastic, and she writes the best vampire books in history. She dissapointed me though, when she started writing about Jesus. Her vampire chronicles are a much better subject!

  • This is just Wonderful!!!!

  • ANNE RICE IS AWESOME

  • Anne Rice is my favorite author. She brings out emotions in me that I didn't know I had. She is really deep and inspiring =)

    I will definately go to the Vampire Lestat Ball one day!

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • I was really confused by her change and sad that she said she wouldn't write any more vampire chronicles books. But she seems to have found something She believes in strongly, so I happy for her in that sense.

  • Hmm, I think I forgive her...I felt rather betrayed that she, the queen of the damned, would seek entry to heaven after all these years, but I guess she's still pretty cool. Hmm...

  • [sigh...] I feel like crying...because I'm happy.

    I love the message she sent through this clip :D

    The background music is beautiful.

  • her books changed my life....Every summer since 4 years I have to go back in her world

  • Yeah, I know. I do the same thing ^_^

  • Fantastic writer... I love her vampires and her witches...

  • I love her! thanks for the videos...its amazing (LL)!!

  • presumptious bitch. 'as you know and as i know ...blah blah... the mind is eternal'. no sweetie, we're not all born-again pseudo-christians. even if you very cleverly call it 'the mind' instead of going all-out and just saying 'soul'.

  • i agree totally... i think it's because since she's getting older now she's decided to find religion... it's kinda sad... she has abandoned lestat he's no longer and no more and you could tell in her last books... it's ok maybe when she passes someone will revive him again kinda like they did when the real vc andrews died...

  • I can't believe you came here to say that! If you take a good look at the source of all the work you claim to admire you will find at the very heart of it is this gentle human being that searches for a satisfying understanding of its very existence. But because you have not arrived at the same conclusion for your existence you have taken it upon yourselves to visit her channel and leave these heartless and disrespectful comments!

  • I really like her books. I grew up reading all the vampire chronicles and cant find many other authors who write as amazing as her.

  • She's so amazing,both as a person and a writer. I wish i could go to that Ball too ):

  • Her words neve fail to bring tears to my eyes. We love you Anne. Now and forever.

  • Mi Señora... no puedo evitar amarla...me uno a sus deseos de belleza e inmortalidad, a su alma sin genero y a la de muchos otros que adoran las Cronicas Vampiricas....

    My beloved lady, I just can´t help it...I Love Her...I join to her quest for Beauty and Immortality, to her genderless soul...I join to all of those out there seeking for eternal beauty...and to those who share our love for the Vampire Chronicles...

  • I love anne rice ♥

  • She`s amazing.. what she is & what she wrotte.. as Luis used to say "No words can describe it.." :).Love aNne RiCE

  • She's one of my favorite authors. I love Anne Rice novels. Thanks for posting this video it was great. Boy Anne is getting thinner. She looks better heavier. =)~

  • anne rice is the most anazing author.

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