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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345492739
ISBN: 0345492730
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-02-26
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2008-02-26
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Summary: Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt
Comment: The book was received on time as promised. It was in the good condition as stated.
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Summary: Starts really well but a little slow towards the middle/end
Comment: This book started out really well, but halfway through, I found it lacking in excitement and story line...Although the research involved in this book appears to be extensive, it looses a little bit of the story line, focusing too much on Jesus thoughts...Not a bad read, just a little slow..
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Summary: Boring sweet fantasy
Comment: I have read the vast majority of Anne Rice's other books( liked them) and really liked Memnock the Devil. It was obvious in that book that Anne had a grasp on Christian theology so I was very interested to read Christ the Lord. What a disappointment. Boring and writen for kids. Poorly fleshed out characters and one part when Jesus ( this is minor)stops the rain on a walk home...yea sure I grew up in a desert and you are thankful for every single drop of rain you get. ( that is how to tell the locals from new comers...locals don't complain about the rain) So my point is that she doesn't really have a feel for life in the area and ...yea like sure I believe in the virgin birth. Just like I believe in George slaying a dragon!!! I do think that Jesus was the embodiment of the Christ spirit but this woman did a pitiful job of creating what could have been a rich spiritual novel. I hope her faith is bigger than this book. I might add that Krishnamurti wrote At the Feet of the Master when he was 12, he was great spiritual leader.I also have known Mystic leaders who also could heal people by their touch, maybe she needs to meet some people like that.
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Summary: It Speaks To The Heart.
Comment: This is a picture of Jesus - as a young boy - that fits comfortably into the character of Christ as found in the Gospels... and yet the creative detail imagined to fully render that character brings a fresh light and joy to the subject. The heart of this book testifies to its author's spirit of humility and grace.
Those who know the Lord will love this story. For those unfamiliar with Christ, what an introduction to the possibilities of his undocumented early years!
Thank you Anne, for moving us.
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Summary: A Great Read: If You Happen to be Pope.
Comment: I realise that authors go through many stages of their careers, exploring different facets of their personality, trying different roles.
I am a great fan of Anne's work. I have attended dozens of her events in New Orleans, and own numerous signed copies and first editions. I love (with the exception of Queen of the Damned) the Vampire Chronicles, I enjoyed The Witching Hour, I owned the Beauty Triology when you still had to ask for it quietly in kink shops on the lower East side. I had read the historical novels when few people knew she'd even written them. I forgave her for selling the title of Exit to Eden to that debacle of a film. And I understood that she became deeply ill with diabetes, had lost a daughter, and then lost her husband Stan. I suppose such things could turn any renegade Catholic back to the Church.
I don't know how I would have felt about this book if it had been written by anyone in the WORLD other than Anne Rice. I have read other religious and antireligious works... I believe " The Red Tent" was one of the best books I read the year it was released. I have nothing inherently against fictionalized accounts, I've seen JCS, Godspell and Joseph so many times I sing them in my sleep (some folks dream of the wonders they'll do...)
However, over the many years I have read Anne's work, I have come to expect a certain kind of character, and a certain kind of book. Not even necessarily horror, the original scene aside books like " Cry to Heaven" are not horror novels. But I have come to look for the sort of sweeping tale Anne has given us for years. This was not it. This book creeps well into the range of what I would consider to be "oppressively preachy." While alienating her HUGE fan base with a book so off-the-charts Christian, I doubt Anne was able to approach the audience who would have enjoyed this book-- Bible Belt readers, most likely-- since she would have hopelessly alienated them by the time Belinda was released. I still own my copy because it completes my collection, but unless I encounter G-d on the road to Damascus, I do not anticipate being able to finish it. I am just completely unable to reconcile the authoress I have read passionately for two decades with this work.
I recommended this book to "The Pope" in my review, because I assume one of the only reasons she would write such a completely out-of-character novel is to "make amends" with the Church for her earlier sexually-charged works, so she might as well get credit for it upstairs.
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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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