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rjuanernesto 's review for:
The Queen of the Damned
by Anne Rice
Once again this is a reread of this book
The decision to read this book came about in the early part of the last decade when after proclaiming my love for the movie countless times and reading in every comments section of anything related to the film that the book was better, I finally got the nerve to actually risk hating the movie.
It was a success I read the book and now I scarcely watch the movie. The only thing I can say about what the film got right is the casting of Aaliyah as Akasha.
The best part about this book is "The Story of the Twins" which granted is a great chunk of the book but in both my initial read and this last I wanted to breeze through the chapters in between to get to the continuation of the story of the twins.
In this latest read through I came across this quote
...Look at the other religions founded upon magic; founded upon some apparition or voice from
the clouds! Founded upon the intervention of the supernatural in one guise or another-
miracles,revelations, a mortal man rising from the dead!
look on the effects of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their
fantastical claims. Look at what they have done to human history. look at the wars fought on
account of them; look at the persecutions, the massacres. Look at the pure enslavement of
reason; look at the price of faith and zeal.
and you tell us of children dying in the Eastern countries, in the name of Allah as the guns
crackle and the bombs fall. and the wars of which you speak in which one tiny European nation
sought to exterminate a people... In the name of what grand spiritual design for a new world was
that done? and what does the world remember of it? the death camps, the ovens in which bodies
were burnt by the thousands. the ideas are gone.
One of the few things I disliked about this book in comparison to the previous two was Rice's quotes before each part of the book. It would have bothered me less if the quotes were in anyway relevant to the story, or in anyway remotely similar to it. This could be that I'm just missing something entirely.
The decision to read this book came about in the early part of the last decade when after proclaiming my love for the movie countless times and reading in every comments section of anything related to the film that the book was better, I finally got the nerve to actually risk hating the movie.
It was a success I read the book and now I scarcely watch the movie. The only thing I can say about what the film got right is the casting of Aaliyah as Akasha.
The best part about this book is "The Story of the Twins" which granted is a great chunk of the book but in both my initial read and this last I wanted to breeze through the chapters in between to get to the continuation of the story of the twins.
In this latest read through I came across this quote
...Look at the other religions founded upon magic; founded upon some apparition or voice from
the clouds! Founded upon the intervention of the supernatural in one guise or another-
miracles,revelations, a mortal man rising from the dead!
look on the effects of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their
fantastical claims. Look at what they have done to human history. look at the wars fought on
account of them; look at the persecutions, the massacres. Look at the pure enslavement of
reason; look at the price of faith and zeal.
and you tell us of children dying in the Eastern countries, in the name of Allah as the guns
crackle and the bombs fall. and the wars of which you speak in which one tiny European nation
sought to exterminate a people... In the name of what grand spiritual design for a new world was
that done? and what does the world remember of it? the death camps, the ovens in which bodies
were burnt by the thousands. the ideas are gone.
One of the few things I disliked about this book in comparison to the previous two was Rice's quotes before each part of the book. It would have bothered me less if the quotes were in anyway relevant to the story, or in anyway remotely similar to it. This could be that I'm just missing something entirely.