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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. My favorite Anne Rice book. Rowan Mayfair is a neurosurgeon in California. Michael Curry renovates old houses in the San Francisco area. After a near-drowning, Michael acquires an odd power to "see" things and their histories when he touches them with his hands. Michael and Rowan are destined to cross paths, and inevitably they do. Having both been born in New Orleans, they find their way back there, together, when Rowan's birth mother dies and she discovers she descends from a long line of "witches". But was it really fate that brought Rowan and Michael together? This was a re-read for me, and was a totally different experience the second time around. I remember reading The Witching Hour many years ago somewhat by accident, when the cassette tape audiobook version was in the company car that I was driving. I had never experienced a book on audio before, so I stuck the tape in and was subsequently entranced for the next few days during my commutes to/from work. I literally fell under this book's spell and have had an obsession with audiobooks since then. I also greedily consumed the next two books in the series, though didn't enjoy those quite as much. At any rate, when I heard that there was to be a series adaptation based on The Witching Hour, I decided to revisit the book. I wanted to repeat the audio experience, so borrowed a copy via the Libby app (be prepared for 50 hours if you're listening), but it wasn't the experience I remember at all. My best guess is that I previously read an abridged version, with a different narrator. This time around, the book really dragged for me, and that magical component just wasn't there. Anne Rice was great at researching history and creating a story with loads of historical context. However, I found that the excessive detail and repetition bogged down the story, and by the time the climax came at the end of the book, it was rushed and too fantastical to be credible. It was hard for me to come to terms with this re-read, as I found it so much more disappointing compared to my initial read those many years ago. And if that weren't disappointing enough, don't even think about watching Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches series on AMC. It's one of the worst adaptations I've seen of any book. The story is completely different and the casting is all wrong. Just don't do it. If you haven’t read an Anne Rice book yet, do yourself a favor and pick up one now! This book is THICKK but don’t let that scare you away. It’s broken up into 4 parts, so go into thinking you are reading 4 books 8466300279
Novela escrita por Anne Rice, y primer libro de la trilogĂa de "Las Brujas de Mayfair", en el que se explica el origen, tanto de la familia de brujas más antigua, (sobre la que se tenga conocimiento en el universo creado por Anne Rice), como el de las criaturas llamadas Taltos, las cuales son tratadas con mayor profundidad en el tercer libro de la saga. Is opgenomen inExit to Eden / Feast of All Saints / Interview With the Vampire / Lasher / Merrick / The Mummy / Pandora / Queen of the Damned / Servant of the Bones / The Tale of the Body Thief / The Vampire Lestat / Vittorio the Vampire / The Witching Hour door Ann Rice Vittorio the Vampire / The Vampire Lestat / Interview With the Vampire / The Vampire Armand / Queen of the Damned / Merrick / The Witching Hour / Blood Canticle / The Mummy / Memnoch the Devil / Taltos door Ann Rice BevatHeeft de bewerkingIs verkort inHeeft een naslagwerk/handboekHeeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenDistinctions
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HTML:"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." â??The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witchesâ??a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women. Moving in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we belie Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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