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Post by Stirling on Dec 2, 2006 5:39:00 GMT 1
In this novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.
Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, "Goblin," a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.
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Post by Cassandra I on Dec 4, 2006 2:07:28 GMT 1
Is it just me or did anyone else get grossed out by the way Quinn's maker turned him vampire?
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Post by Gabrielle de Lioncourt on Dec 4, 2006 6:03:28 GMT 1
Most definitely grossed out! And extremely funny too! Quinn "accidentally" made himself a vampire by taking a bite from he/she Petronia.
His ghost twin brother "squeezing" him in the shower was very bizarre too. I think Rice had too much fun with Quinn!
The audio cassette for Blackwood Farm, OMG! It's horrible! I think it's done by a little four foot actor with an overdone southern accent.
I did enjoy Blackwood Farm, although I skipped many pages of Quinn talking about his family, one thing I could never get. Why in hell would Lestat, adventurous and zany as he is.....spend an entire night patiently listening to Quinn rattle on about his family?!!!!! I mean some of the stuff was purely opinionated and very gossipy!
I think my favorites scenes were the ones with Goblin, it was so sad when he turned out to be a little baby that died at birth. I actually felt Quinn's mother's pain, even if she was a total bitch/slut, to have a baby and your mother and father pretend it never happened....bury it and forget it....that's gotta hurt.
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Post by Cassandra I on Dec 5, 2006 2:45:10 GMT 1
Good points!
Quinn was a weird duck. (I think he might have been a drag queen with his obsession with his aunts high heels!!!!)
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Post by Lestat II on Dec 5, 2006 5:52:21 GMT 1
To answer Gabrielle's question, I did the same thing that I did while Marius was going on and on about Romans or something. I fell asleep with my eyes open and woke up for the sections about sex and car chases. Something tells me I should stick to James Bond movies.
Otherwise...Petronia...yeah...that was...interesting. The one character I did really like in this book was the character of Quinn's tutor who's name escapes me at the moment. I always love the passive, quiet, gentlemanly characters like him and Michael Curry (Curry from Blackwood Farm, not from Witching Hour. Two very different Currys there) that Anne Rice has a habit of sneaking into her books.
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