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I read her book Memnoch the Devil and she definitely kinda intertwined Christianity into her vampire fiction mythos so I'd say yeah... she was definitely searching for many years based upon her works. An artist (or author in this case) can't help but imprint their own self onto their works so yup... this makes sense.
That was a hard one - a real trudge. But mostly smooth sailing after that one.
really? a Stephen King fan like you should have loved The Vampire Lestat. it was a totally fast read for me. ive read that book many many times. oh well people like what they like.
its been a long time, but was Memnoch the one where Lestat travels back in time to meet Jesus or was that Body Thief?
The former, not the latter. Lestat goes to Heaven and Hell to aid the devil in soul deliverance, yeah.
yeah, i thought that was pretty funny, i wasnt offended, but it felt more like a trope. like everyone always fantasizes about meeting famous and important people in the past to see what they were really like. its why people who claim to have past lives always say they were somebody famous. nobody ever says they were a goat herder who shovelled shit their whole life in the 15th century.
so you dont like the "Harry Sue" aspect? well if you ever pick the book up again, Lestat didnt just pick up a guitar and start wailing on it like it aint no thang. his human origin story was pretty amazing and it was due to that human origin story that Lestat was chosen to be a vampire by an aging vampire. i cant say much more because i really dont want to ruin it for anyone. but as i said, there is some heavy world building in that novel and Lestat before he ever makes it to "present" time is an exceptional vampire even among other vampires. part of that is due to the blood he drinks, but as i said, he also has a pretty fucking cool human origin story.
