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...past few years is Anne Rice's portrayal of vampires -- actually gray-suited Pat Buchanan-type homophobes who wouldn't risk a Paisley tie, most of them -- as mincing exquisites. Boldly and impudently, she has caricatured the gaudy world of high-camp New Orleans homosexuals (so the reader guesses) as a cabal of tormented blood drinkers. The mannered dress and behavior, the private recognitions and ironies, the tireless naughtiness, the forbidden seductions and ultimate sterility (vampires cannot breed, Rice assures us) are carried over unchanged to the vampire world. So is a pervasive and undisguised homoeroticism...
...monstrous self- fascination has taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal con man whose extraordinary psychic powers let him cheat the vampire out of his demonic, enormously powerful body...
Johnson said he thought installation of an electronic reader system had increased perceived and actual security of the first-year dorms, and would probably do the same for the houses...
...WEEKLY READER POLL: Right every time since 1956 -- until now. In September its school-aged readers picked Bush by a large margin...
...never had anything to do with theater, puppetry or anything like that. I wrote when I was young. I didn't think of it in terms of being a writer and I was a reader before I was a writer. I devoured books; I read anything I could get my hands...