tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8543116121986858859.post-23492382336752518332008-03-11T18:56:00.000-07:002008-03-11T19:02:46.987-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tl_5k_GnTX4/R9c5Mglf8OI/AAAAAAAAAMY/XBDijrviXKg/s1600-h/rtc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tl_5k_GnTX4/R9c5Mglf8OI/AAAAAAAAAMY/XBDijrviXKg/s200/rtc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176669183754105058" border="0" /></a>I just picked up Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Road to Cana. Her first book on the life of Christ (Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt) caught me up: the story, set in Jesus' childhood, tells of Jesus' dawning awareness that he is God and that he has a mission. Excellent story, wonderfully told, amazingly, in the first person. This second volume imagines the last year of Jesus' "private" life including his baptism and ending with his miracle at the wedding in Cana. At least that's what the cover says - I'm not able to start into it just yet.<br /><br />Checking out her website today, she says she is toying with the idea of returning to her vampire character Lestat and writing a story where he finds the savior he's always been looking for. My own sense in reading Interview with the Vampire was that Lestat is plainly looking for Jesus Christ - and that it makes perfect sense for Rice to have ultimately found Christ as the fruit of her search and the promise of all her longing. It's interesting to imagine what it might be like for her vampire "hero" to stumble across the transforming love of Christ as she's done such excellent and influential work in the vampire genre. But for now Rice works on her third volume in the Christ the Lord series, Christ the Lord: The Kingdom of Heaven", the focal point of which is apparently the raising of Lazarus.<br /><br />All in good time.Andrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16626782654130983699noreply@blogger.com