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Summary: Amazing Read. Quite the wordsmith and storyteller.
Review: Of course, I bought the book to see if he had the "Rice" touch. He has, and better, he has his OWN touch. The descriptive powers have indeed been handed down, but he has his own style very much different from his Mother.I read this in two sittings and was irritated when I had to stop reading it. Christopher Rice can make you feel the steamy humidity and smell the dankness of the cemetery. He crafts characters that won't leave you, and makes you hungry for more. Cannot wait to read his second book, The Snow Garden
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Summary: Without Question.....Brilliant
Review: I read "A Density of Souls" in two days. I just couldn't put it down. Rice has written a book that has shown people that his mother isn't the only author in the family. In my opinion, Rice can be compared to Stephen King and John Saul.
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Summary: A Book That Shows Truth
Review: I read the book in a few days but when I did read it I couldn't put it down. The way the main characters are all friends until highschool, when all of them break off into their own clique and everybody kinda goes their own way. The way Stephen is just hated for his sexual orientation, and the way Meredith is a bulemic, alcoholic, cheerleader was a nice touch, and in the in the process of the book, you end up hating a lot of the characters. But in the end you fall right back in love with the ones you had hoped you would. If there is one person I can at least say "HEY! READ THIS!" It would definitly be this book. It shows the reality of highschool, it shows the grievences of friends, it shows truth about everything. I love the way Rice writes from a more personal perspective being a gay man himself, he could show emotions that really only gay teens have. I loved this book so much that as soon as his second book "A SNOW GARDEN" came out, I was waitin to buy it. I haven't been disappointed by his writing. I will say this though, Anne Rice is a magnificant writer, and she gets as close to "being" a vampire than any other writer I know, but her books just don't have that personal feel in them, Rice has been able to put all this heart into his book. Look I know this review will sound strange, and maybe hard to read, but the main point behind it is, you'll love this book. It's simply divine in my opinion.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: As a huge Anne Rice fan, I was eagerly awaiting this book by her son. It is an amazing tale of four friends from junior high school on to adulthood. It is an intricately woven tapestry and I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: quite the page turner
Review: This was quite the story; full of passion, mystery and suspense. I truly could get into the characters and understand each point of view from where he or she was coming from. It is a great expose' on sexuality and the anxiety and frustrations it brings. The line between gay and straight is a fine one indeed and is the main cause of the homophobia in the book. The author truly captured this aspect rather well. It was interesting to see while Greg and Brandon had to constantly prove their manhood, Stephen just went on with living his life; though at times for him it was pure hell. Could this be why some straight males have a problem with their gay counter parts? I truly felt for Meredith; she was sort of the reluctant hero in the whole story. The secondary characters were well developed as well especially Monica and Greg's mother. The story itself was riveting and it was refreshing for a change to see a gay character take front and center rather then fall back on cardboard heroes. Okay I may be a bit bias being gay myself but hey what can I say? I did like the suspense in this and the ending was truly a shocker even though it bordered on soap opera; though only a bit. There are however flaws with this grand effort mainly with the character Jordan. Men don't turn gay overnight and though I loved the idea of the home town hero rescuing his newly found male lover it truly was a bit unbelievable. I would not have thought so if the author had shown Jordan to be bi throughout his life but that was not the case. At first we see Jordan as this hot college stud who is kept by women and never while attending college seeks any men but in a matter of a short period falls in love with another man and does it without any qualms or inner struggles or whatsoever. Like I said I liked it on the whole but even taking into account I was reading fiction I found it to be a tad too unbelievable. In the end though it all came nicely together and I found myself glued to my stereo listening intently. The reader James Daniels did an excellent job in bringing the story to life. Christopher Rice's writing style is nothing like his mother's and I'm glad. I will read his other novel the Snow garden for sure or rather listen to it. This audiobook contains six cassettes and is read by a single reader.
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Summary: Decent first offering, but not great
Review: I love New Orleans. I used to like reading Ann Rice (one of New Orleans' celebrated writers), then her stuff got too bizarre (Egyptian vampires? Please!). But this book intrigued me. I thought the characters were a bit thinly drawn, but I felt that they were well thought out. I could identify them and often relate to them. Yes, it was somewhat predictable, but not always. In short, it's got its good points and bad points, but on the whole, I'd recommend it. It's good fun reading and quite believable. I think Christopher Rice is a much better writer than his mother. He shows real potential to be a good writer. We'll just have to see......
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Summary: The Apple Falls Close to the Tree!
Review: WOW! The old saying the apple falls close to the tree is definitely true! There are no vampires or witches but Chris Rice certainly has his mother's (Anne Rice) ability to entrance the reader twists and turns and simple you subtle eroticism. A very sad, sweet, beautiful of four kids becoming adults in New Orleans and a great commentary about trying to live up to parents expectations. A great read for anyone!
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Summary: Differently Depressing
Review: I have read many of the reviews on this site and based on my opinion on the book and others, here is what I have concluded. First, do not read this if you are not a fan or you cannot tolerate gay fiction. There are several gay scenes in it and if you are made uncomfortable by this sort of material, I recommend you read another book. Second, this book is not for the simple minded. There are times when the novel changes time sequences and leaves you hanging on mysterious information. It reminds me of simpler version of Toni Morrison's Beloved. If you have trouble understanding things without the author telling you and you can't read between the lines,..., but you will no grasp the book. For those of you who can tolerate gay scenes and consider yourself good readers, here is my personal opinion. The novel is lovely. The first things that strikes me about it is Rice's wonderful use of diction. Though he may come off pretentious sometimes, his vocabulary and the assimilation of it into the novel is highly impressive (it reminds me again of Toni Morrison, but not her syntax. Rice's syntax is quite bland.). The novel also suffers because of it's corny moments (the whole fear poem in the bell tower) and I must say that certain things are predictable. For the most part, the novel is constructed well with beautiful diction. Certain scenes and characters become etched in your mind and you will remember them for years to come. Though the novel is highly depressing, there is something that can be learned from it and I do believe any person who considers themselves an open-minded reader with taste must read this novel some time or another.
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Summary: A Density of souls
Review: I had a hard time finishing this book. Several times I almost stopped reading it, but I kept thinking its got to get better. First of all, there are too many characters to keep track of. He goes back and forth in time and its hard to know when he's talking about. He jumps forward by several years with out telling you. You end up having to go back to figure out when he first told you about something, when surprize he left it out before. I think he was trying to create suspense, it left me frustrated. The book is dreary and depressing. The charactors are poorly developed. His action sequences are hard to follow, he does a poor job of describing peoples action in them. The charactors are trying to be detectives, Several of them think something is wrong with events that happened, but he doesn't give the reader any reason to believe they should be suspicious about anything. There is a lot of homosexual action going on in the book,which doesn't bother me. What was a little much was that he made every boy in the book seem have gay tendnacies which was not believable. Overall the book was like a bad B movie. Sorry.
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Summary: Great start...
Review: I wasn't sure what to think of Christopher Rice's foray into writing. I had a fear that he was going to be a limp retread of his mother. I was wrong. This books shows what a promising writer he is. The book itself was very taut,also surprisingly bittersweat. For me it was very evocative of the time between innocent youth and wary teendom. Excellent read.
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