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Have you noticed how many werewolf novels have quotes from reviews on their covers that claim the author of the book has 'done to werewolves what Anne Rice did to vampires"? My collection has three books that say this. Fortunately, none of the authors mangled werewolves as badly as Anne Rice mangled vampires The ones I have are:

The Werewolf's Touch
Moon Dance
Silver Wolf

Any others that you have seen?

i think the idea of the anne rice referance is more about how she drew people into the books world and empathized with the vampires. not how she portrayed vampires, precisely. personally, i liked her books. but that's my opinion.

For future reference, if anything says that the author did to werewolves what Anne Rice did to vampires, it's an insult.

Anne Rice is the lunatic behind Interview With the Vampire, a book which takes one of the great horrors of European literature and downgrades it to a teen hearthrobbing P.O.S.

The cloest thing to an Anne Rice of the werewolf world would be Annette Curtis Klause (Blood & Chocolate), but unlike the three authors of the books you just listed, Annie was at least smart enough not to compare herself to Anne Rice.

So for future reference, treat "Anne Rice" like a synonym for: "DANGER! DANGER!"

"DANGER! DANGER!"

Will Robertson DANGER!!

(sorry couldn't help my self. )

well, i liked them. i'm not really into the horror genre, so i guess that'd explaine it. i ignored the whole vampire mythology and enjoyed the books characters and the scenarios.
you hate her all you want, i still like the books.

Anubis wrote:

"DANGER! DANGER!"

Will Robertson DANGER!!

(sorry couldn't help my self. )

Hm. I was thinking more in Croc Hunter terms myself, but yeah, that works too.

Terastas wrote:

Anubis wrote:

"DANGER! DANGER!"

Will Robertson DANGER!!

(sorry couldn't help my self. )

Hm. I was thinking more in Croc Hunter terms myself, but yeah, that works too.

no croc hunter is more like

DANGA!! DANGA!! DANGA!!

I stay away from any book or movie that has the name Anne Rice in, on, or used in a description about it. I don't understand why so many people think the woman is brilliant. I wrote better stories when I was twelve! I read Interview With A Vampire and I only got halfway through it before I gave up and threw it away is disgust. Not only was is crappily written, but it was exceedingly dull. It's the only book I've never finished.

Anyone who uses that to try and make whatever it is they wrote sound better is only gonna keep me from even looking at it.

Heh, I know what you mean.....when I started reading the Dragon Delasangre series ( were-dragons ) the same quote was used on his book from some moron.

Her sister I think wrote 3 werewolf novels that were quite good.

Silver Wolf among the ones I mentioned is one of the books of her sister. It is indeed not bad.

anne rice never really did anything to vampires in the first place, I do not feel as though she destroyed them either, I read one of her books for a short while and it was quite good, although not much action the book was still good.

if you ever read one of her books and still did not like it then I can understand that but I hate it when people come along and say "oh she compleatly screwed vampires over" when they never read a single book of hers.

sorry if im ranting

-+Searif+-

Anne Rice does nothing to make the vampire folk richer but what she merely does is showing the human side of vampires and the way they handle their emotions, makes them more human till you occasionaly remember ow, yeah, he's a blood- sucking daemon.
I absolutely hate the way Anne Rice talked and talked and talked about every slight detail in her first books of the Vampire Chronicles. I'm actually reading Armand the Vampire and I must say that I ended loving it: so you hate Interview with a Vampire and Lestat the Vampire, skip til the most recent, it's gone loads better and you don't miss the big deal (any way, this last book is not for homofobic people of you'll vomit with the first mention of Marius-Armand relation)

It's a matter of likes and dislikes; as for me Anne Rice's

Like it or not, Anne Rice did re-popularize vampires. Complain all you want, but after her books came out, vampires came out of a doldrum and were suddenly popular again. Her works motivated Mark Haagen-Daas to publish Vampire: the Masquerade, and thus laid groundwork for its sequel, Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Both, of course, are what prompted the original scripting of Underworld. So, yes, it's all her fault, but, if it weren't for her, vampires might still be idling in the Dracula archetype.

OK, so The Lost Boys updated them first. Still, her role in the matter cannot be ignored.

anne rice.... blah. get that taist out of my mouth.
she did nothing but over glorify the 'taboo gay sick and twusted lets have sex with no penis' thing, personaly i think she sucks. i think they say she is cool just cuz one person thought she was and every one wanted to fallow in the trend.
like Brittany and young teens.

Scott Gardener wrote:but, if it weren't for her, vampires might still be idling in the Dracula archetype.

i would give an arm and a leg to get it back to that instead of the crappy goth stuff thats pumped out nowadays.

[quote she did nothing but over glorify the 'taboo gay sick and twusted lets have sex with no penis' thing, [/quote]


As far as tastes go, I found that woefully lacking in any other Vampire novel/movie.
basic romantic vieuws of vampires adhere too strictly (in my vieuw) to human biological behavior of become just another watery image of a tragic love-story (version 315.267)... perhaps it was a bit overdone, but it sure as hell made up for the percieved lack of it elsewere...

plus : explain why that's "sick & twisted" ?

its the way she did it. i read one of her books and just though "this is a girl with allot of fantasies that she need to either be a part of or see." there is a difference between porn and really having sex.

and personaly i didn't like they way she put her so called love stories. into words.