My Second Mother Died Today.

[Cormac135]

Well sometime last year actually, the novelist Anne Rice passed away.

Her books have been a mainstay in my life ever since the age of 10 when i found a copy of Interview With The Vampire in my local library, since then it's been a love affair with Lestat The Vampire, The Mayfair Witches, and Ramses The Damned, she's filled my imagination with horror, adventure and mystery.

I shall miss her greatly.

Do you have any favourite authors ?

 

[Peloso]

I've been reading a lot of Chuck Palahniuk lately. "Invisible Monsters" is my favorite novel of all time.

 

[Alistair]

I enjoyed the couple of werewolf books she wrote. I didn’t read any outside of the vampire books.

My favorite authors are Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I’ve read everything they’ve done but feel that both are running out of interesting ideas

 

[rareboy]

She was iconic.

Although I liked her LeStat works better than some of the later writings.

I can't say she is one of my real favourites...I love the works of the 'classicists' and the outings of some modern writers.....

But your thread touches off the last moments.....over a decade ago this week, when our literal 'second' mother Jeannie died in palliative care and my partner and I were there for the last few moments with her and I remember closing her eyes after death. And then just heaving my heart out because it was like losing my own own mother all over again.

 

[PalacePaul]

I love P.D. James


Oops, I realize I posted the DVD pic

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Anne Rice? I didn't know it was THAT bad.

 

[backagain]

Anne Rice? I didn't know it was THAT bad.

She was also know for writing about BDSM. I loved the vampire series. Read them all... All had a human element.

 

[Vannie]

O.Henry

He wrote Cabbages and Kings

 

[belamyi]

How many have you left?

Poor Vannie, poor stepunload.

 

[unloadonme]

I'm not sure whether or not Cormac intended this thread to be specifically about female authors. My favourite novelist is Evelyn Waugh, who may sound female but was actually male. He's probably best known for Brideshead Revisted which has been made into a TV series and a film. For anyone who's interested, I'd recommend The Loved One.

 

[belamyi]

^ I'd recommend the TV series of BR: it's so fucking literal it's almost an audiobook, and you get the plus or the visuals and some more or less real acting... good old British acting. The Catalan dubbing is pretty good too

 

[belamyi]

Maybe not so much an author as a literature... or, rather, a certain part of a certain literature:

I have revered Racine for almost thirty years, I guess it's (yes, it's a creation, not a male person) "my favourite author",

although maybe Pushkin would seem more "substantial" to the more receptive of the duller brains... and I mean Pushkin, not any middling mishaper.

 

[belamyi]

^ Argh! Now I recall I haven't turned over those wood plank shelves in two years

 

[belamyi]

Although I do recall having felt mildly interested (not enough to actually dare to borrow one of her bricks from the uni's humanities library) back in 1997 or so (Canal+ broadcasting), when I watched/witnessed that homo scene with the phat Dresden kiddo:

 

[belamyi]

^Is that showing? What about this?

or this one

https://i.gifer.com/Jlsu.gif