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| Christ the Lord ~ The Road to Cana; Anne Rice's newest released in March!!!! | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 21 2008, 02:38 PM (806 Views) | |
| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 02:38 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073932778...6120_pe_snp_78X Amazon has it listed for a March 4th release date! From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In the New Testament, the miracle at the wedding at Cana-where Jesus turned water into wine-marks the commencement of his tumultuous three-year ministry. In Rice's beautifully observed novel, a sequel to 2005's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, however, the wedding miracle is in fact the culmination of an intimate family saga of love, sorrow and misunderstanding. As the novel opens, Yeshua (Jesus) struggles with a sense of restlessness of purpose and a deep love for a comely kinswoman. Waves of isolation sweep over him as he comes to understand that serving the Lord's will takes precedence over the desires of his own heart. Whereas the first novel in this series hewed so closely to Scripture and to the author's meticulous research as to be somewhat arid as fiction, this book, imagining the "lost" young adulthood of Jesus, offers wise and haunting speculation where the Bible is silent. And the final chapters, which pick up the story with the New Testament's accounts of Jesus' baptism, temptation and early miracles, manage to be soulfully insightful even while faithfully tracking the Gospels. Rice undertakes a delicate balance: if it is possible to create a character that is simultaneously fully human and fully divine, as ancient Christian creeds assert, then Rice succeeds. (Mar.) 
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| Julesy | Feb 21 2008, 02:43 PM Post #2 |
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im gonna save my Barnes and noble card from xmas and buy it! |
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| Taman | Feb 21 2008, 02:44 PM Post #3 |
The Darksider
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Ooh ooh there's the book I won't read!
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 03:39 PM Post #4 |
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It sounds very interesting to me. In this book Anne will have to veer away from the scripture and write on her own. |
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 04:40 PM Post #5 |
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Anytime I say Christ the Lord in my head I have the music to Slayer's Die By The Sword in the background. When Tom Araya sings "Die by the sword"  I sustitute "Christ the Lord!" 
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| Noname | Feb 21 2008, 05:05 PM Post #6 |
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I am with Anne. Not something I want to read. |
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 05:11 PM Post #7 |
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Heathens :craig |
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| Noname | Feb 21 2008, 05:12 PM Post #8 |
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No we just know what good books are. |
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 05:28 PM Post #9 |
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I beg to differ! |
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| Noname | Feb 21 2008, 05:28 PM Post #10 |
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Really? How so? |
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 05:41 PM Post #11 |
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Most of you all are prejudiced against the book simply because of the subject matter, and you will not allow yourself to even try to give it a chance. Anne's descriptions of the times and places of the young Jesus, even though told from a more simple perspective due to the young voice of the narrative, were still a work of beauty and deserving of praise! |
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| Taman | Feb 21 2008, 05:47 PM Post #12 |
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It's Jesus. He was a hippie. I do not want to read about how Jesus feels all guilty when he looks at tits. 
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 05:50 PM Post #13 |
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| Jane | Feb 21 2008, 05:50 PM Post #14 |
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Jesus has issues, doesn't fit in, just like her other heroes. I will read the next one, I must! |
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| Angeliica Nero | Feb 21 2008, 08:58 PM Post #15 |
Hester Fuckin' Prynne!
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I'll read it someday but first I want to finish all the vamp and witch ones!
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| Denovissimus | Feb 21 2008, 09:18 PM Post #16 |
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You haven't read all the witch and vampire books yet!  Some of us have read them more than once! |
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| Julesy | Feb 21 2008, 10:35 PM Post #17 |
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well said Jesse. oh well, we aint the ones missing out. 
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Feb 22 2008, 01:12 AM Post #18 |
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this one sounds better than the first one. I MAY read it. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Feb 22 2008, 01:13 AM Post #19 |
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you act as though you are a christian when you are far from one! |
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| Julesy | Feb 22 2008, 01:13 AM Post #20 |
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I wonder if these will be her last books. I hope not. |
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