The Vampire Lestat is my favourite too! I love it! All the vampire chronicles are good though.. I have't read her other books yet

Now that Anne Rice has given up on vampires and occultism, perhaps it's only courteous to consider that the first volume of her latest project "Christ the Lord" (1st vol is called "Out of Egypt") is her best
work. Sounds like that's what she would want us to say.

Unfortunately I haven' had the chance to read her new work as it has been published in Italy yet (last were the Taltos ones)....and I will as soon as it will be published. By now, I'm a big fan of her "past" works

I really don't think it makes any sense to say someone's best work is their most recent Especially without having read it first, and as such I have to disagree that that's what she would want us to say!

I do agree that her focus has shifted away from the occult.. to be expected after the loss of Stan and the destruction of her beloved New Orleans Nevertheless, whilst Memnoch the Devil is officially a "Vampire Chronicle" it's certainly more religious than occult.. so is her latest project really a whole new direction or just a continuation of themes she's touched on before?

LOL Michael....this is much to comment!!!!!!! Well...maybe I asked my question using the wrong words...I meant the book mailfriends people preferred

Well, I didn't mean to say that we are obliged to agree with what Anne Rice herself would say was her best work, merely that it is one consideration.

Odd, though, isn't it, that a writer who made her name with vampire novels should now have taken such a different turn?

She may have made her name with the Vampire Chronicles but she's been doing very different stuff for years, for example her erotica! Written under a pseudonym but her work nonetheless

EROTICA? lol I would have never imagined such....and...what's her pseudonym ???????

I know! It is pretty shocking.. Her pseudonym is A.N. Roquelaure

I'll try to look for this writer in a bookstore ...but I'm afraid I won't be able to find anything. In Italy we're always 2 years behind

My personal favorite is "The Vampire Armand" .

He saw the face that he had painted, now darkened slightly with the thing we naively call wisdom. Quoted from the book "The Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice.