Sometimes, there are no words.

[meteordust]

From the June 2005 issue of Locus Magazine:

"Anne Rice has turned her attention from vampires and witches to a different sort of supernatural protagonist: Jesus Christ. Her new book, Christ the Lord, is set in 1st-century Palestine and begins when Jesus is seven years old. This fictional biography, based on Biblical scholarship, covers the portion of Christ's life that is not addressed in the Gospels. Rice thinks her old fans will follow her in this new direction: "They like supernatural heroes, and Jesus is one. They like outsiders, and he is one. I hope and pray they'll see the continuity, and they'll like it." Christ the Lord will be published in November 2005."

Comments

[evilhayama.livejournal.com]

That's pretty unfathomable. If she's trying to be controversial, I think she has succeeded.

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was stunned when I first found out about it. Now I hear that it was inspired by her recent return to the Catholic faith - but it still feels like some kind of hubris to me.

[calla-s.livejournal.com]

As per the comment above - I wonder if she's trying to make anyone, anywhere, *care* about what she writes, once again.

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Well, she must still have fans, because her books still sell. But considering how bad a rep her last one had, I shudder to think what this one might be like.

[harukitty.livejournal.com]

Case of self promotion through controversy.

There's very little information from the Bible about Jesus pre-30's. At best you may have "fictional" or "speculative" records of Jesus' childhood from stuff like the Dead Sea Scrolls and some other stuff that I can't remember off hand whose authorship is unknown, and therefore dubious.

Come to think of it... if that's the stuff she's basing it on... then you could possibly consider this to be a high profile fanfic :þ

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

I can only remember the conversation he had with the elders, and the water into wine incident. I don't know much about what other sources of info there might be. But I think there would be very, very few writers who could attempt something like this and be taken seriously, and Anne Rice is not one of them.

I'm also kind of amused that one of the Amazon reviews calls it "little more than a novelization of the Gospels". XD

[evilhayama.livejournal.com]

Well Meteordust mentions above it was inspired by her return to catholocism. Perhaps she's such a big fangirl she reckons fic is the best form of worship for her? :)
Or maybe she's a new prophet!... Jesus' official biographer, Anne Rice. -_-