Being a recovering Catholic, I think it's funny. (And I'm talking for myself here.) Seeing someone run to the CC for comfort is odd to me. The church is all about fear, something she's familiar with, so maybe it's a good fit for her. I'm not a big fan of hers and I'm even less a fan of her son (who is also an author, got famous because of his last name and writes tripe that's transparently controversial for The Advocate Magazine).
I feel for her with her close call with death, but her transformation has about the same validity in my eyes as Dennis Miller suddenly becoming a neo-con. Striving to cater to that bigger, popular group are we...?

Eh, I'm not sure this is going to make her any more popular - She knows she may already be alienating her current fan base, and I'm sure there are a fair amount of folks on the devout side that view her with suspicion and fear her creation of a sexy jesus super hero.

sexier then Jesus Christ Superstar?

To be honest, I'm intrigued, and can almost guarantee you I'll read it.

Think about how risky it is to write anything as if God/Jesus is saying it. Anne has the skill to make the whole thing fascinating and to actually bring the characters to life. Say what you will about the modern-day behavior of WASPs, but Jesus himself is still a very compelling character when you remove the revivalist color-ed glasses from the story. I mean, think about it. He's a kid. But he's God. But he's still a kid. With parents. By his own/father's law, he must obey them. God obey humans. Think about it! He's trying to get the full human experience, yet all the while he knows he's God. And this good Jewish boy, raised knowing the circumstances of his birth grows up to be an angry itinerant street preacher who trashes a temple - the house of God... er, himself... er, his father...

I just think that Anne's talent will make this one hell of a good read. I remember how fascinating the "conversation with God" bit was in the other book. Totally fascinating to see how she'll breathe life into the characters.

Noone paid any mind when Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John did it...........


And since they wrote those books many many many years after the events in them, it would be hard for anyone to tell me that they were not putting words in Jesus' mouth......

I don't know about anyone else, but I have a hard time remembering exactly what someone said, word for word, a few years after it was said.

And see, this was the exact moment I realized I was done with Anne Rice - heh, I'm begging to think you and I should pair up and do book and movie reviews ;)

There were certain aspects of Memnoch the Devil I really liked. That was the last Rice book I read and enjoyed. But it was the darker aspects of Memnoch that fascinated me, I think.

Violin turned me off of Rice for good, I'm afraid. Perhaps that's treating her unfairly but my God that was awful.

I was turned off by her when she took back what she said about Tom Cruise being a bad choice for Lestat in a big newspaper article before the release of 'Interview with a Vampire'. Bleh. He WAS a bad choice. :D

See, I thought he was a bad choice, then I saw the movie, and agreed with Rice. I thought he did a really good job.

Really? I don't have that problem at all. I can recall exactly what was said months ago. groovy baby!