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Title: The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice ISBN: 0-345-33453-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (54 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Anne Rice at her best
Comment: I knew nothing about the topic before I read the book. I bought "The Feast of all Saints" because I enjoy the author. I was expecting to be entertained for a few hours & I ended up also learning some interesting history & sociology facts.
This is one of Rice's better researched & better written novels. I would highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Overwhelming!!!
Comment: Once I started reading the Saints of All Feast I kept waiting for a Vampire to enter, but to my amazemet, this story unfolded a lot of unanswered questions about myself and my family. Coming from a great grandfather(who I now know to be a gens de coulerur libres)and my great grandmother who was considered a Negro,I understand their reasoning for migrating from Lousiana to Oklahoma, where I have generations and generations of Creole relations.I also now know why my mother was called the Black Sheep. This is a Beautiful Story. I recommend anyone that has any French Creole in their Blood read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great reading for long winter nights
Comment: Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice has almost too much descriptive detail, and made the beginning slow reading, yet it was these details that made me feel I was actually there in the story. The character's physical descriptions were so vivid I could see them in my mind. Their thoughts and emotions were so well described I felt their dreams, their triumphs and their despair as my own. This book was written so that I lived through each of the characters.
This book is written about the "gens de colour" in New Orleans before the Civil War. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them and then set them free. They could own property and pay taxes but couldn`t vote. The laws made them inferior to the whites but they could and did own slaves. They were considered socially inferior by their own relations yet in turn they felt superior to the slaves. It was a complex world and Anne Rice lets us see it through the eyes of the people living it.
Through her characters I also learned to look at things differently. Through Jean Jacques, who taught himself everything he knew, the term "self made man" has more meaning to me now. When Marcel explains the spiritual and material, how he felt all things are alive, I look at material things differently.
I enjoyed this book and while at times it seemed wordy and hard to read it was this wordiness that made it worthwhile. I could read it a second time and get even more out of it. This is what I consider a good book. Every time you read it you learn something new from it.
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Title: Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345396936 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345369947 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345389417 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Taltos by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345404319 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345384466 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 22 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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