A friend who started following the Amazon blather when it started about 2 weeks ago said that the Anne Rice post is allegedly a hoax, and that that wasn't even her real address. Anyone hear? That would mean someone at the NY Times didn't do their facts-checking. What a shocker.
It would be one thing if she recognized herself as good trash, Lexx, but she does think she is the Mozart of la litterature.
And style? That rambling-on, 'free-form,' melodramatic, stream-of-unconsciousness, fawned-over romance-tinged hackery? It's not a matter of proper form... nor is it a more 'sensible' style we honor: we are against gibberish. Mother Chichi has enjoined me on more than one occasion to give her a try. So, loving her, I have tried. I heave to one of the collossi. The feverish little brain each time grazes hopefully ~~ through the rampant repetitions the purple stanzas the florid floribundae, sways vertiginous through boredom into profound snooze.