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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)

by Anne Rice

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Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of Christ the Lord, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.… (more)
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It was an interesting look at what Jesus' younger years might have been like and how he may have reacted to realizing his true identity as God's son. I think it may have held more meaning if I came from a Catholic background or read more para-biblical literature, but it was still enjoyable, and portrayed a deep faith. It also contains the first believable explanation I've come across of how Mary could have remained a virgin and stay married to Joseph after giving birth to Jesus. ( )
  Annrosenzweig | Oct 15, 2021 |
Anne Rice has stated she wants book reviewers to be required to post with their full, real name. In response, I am removing all my reviews of her novels as I am unable and unwilling to do this. I am no longer comfortable reading or reviewing her work. Thank you.
  kaitlynn_g | Dec 13, 2020 |
I expected more from Anne Rice. ( )
  Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
It was all right, and I'll probably read the next one, but Orson Scott Card does bible character fiction (Women of Genesis) better. ( )
  jenbooks | Oct 5, 2020 |
I really gave this book a chance but I had to stop reading it about half way through the book. It just did not catch my attention. ( )
  jocelynelise_ | Aug 10, 2020 |
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Usually you couldn't pay me to read a religous based book but Anne Rice is not everyone's common author. She does her research, and sets the tone of the time in which her characters lived. It is more of a human perspective than a religous one. Jesus is a child and he knows he is different but not the backstory. His family is protective and we follow him as Herod the king who has sought him since birth for assignation has died and the fight for the succession to the throne of David. It is a multi level plot line; the life of jesus and his family members, the plaques, the warring of the Romans and the Jewish fight back in Alexandria. The fear of being Jesus and the miracles and the unexpected reaction by the community when Jesus raises a member of the clan who has died. His fears at the direction of his power and the temptation by the devil to use it for otherwize appropriate needs. Not a sucky book and everyone should know that Anne Rice takes her writing very seriously no matter the subject. it will not be what you expected at all!
added by 23563111RobertsonV | editPersonal, Valerie Robertson (Mar 4, 2024)
 
It doesn't really matter about accuracy - a novelist should be free to play with the facts to get nearer to the truth. What's wrong is the lack of skill in imagining and then depicting a time, a place and a person. In Christ the Lord, Anne Rice has conscientiously taken all the drama, elegance and urgency of the Gospels and the Apocrypha, and flattened them into a tedious and mediocre potboiler. Which is a pity, because it's still a hell of a good idea for a novel.
added by 2wonderY | editThe Guardian, Jenny Diski (Dec 3, 2005)
 
As for the plot, it's a year in the life of a rather plodding 7-year-old boy. As for suspense, he discovers that several mysterious events attended his birth, but we already know that, and so do all the other characters, who are made entirely of cardboard. Mary is innocent; Joseph steadfast; Mary's brother Cleopas laughs so continuously that he might as well be at a vaudeville show; and James, the savior's older brother, glowers throughout the book with big-time sibling rivalry.
 
Rice's Christ reads like a bland young-adult novel, written in language that's supposed to be unadorned and poignantly simple but is instead as flat and leeched of poetry as the Good News Bible.
 
The book's steady attention to such details slows its progress. It stops frequently for scenery, not all of it the kind that a young boy might notice. "It seemed that the women of this place used a loom with one pole to it," he says of Sepphoris, a town near Nazareth, "and one crosspiece at which they had to stand. But we had brought back from Alexandria bigger looms, with two sliding crosspieces, at which the woman could sit, and the women of the village all came to see this." This gives the book a hint of museum diorama.
 

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When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
What ailed thee, O thous sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
-Psalms 114. King James Version
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For Christopher
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I was seven years old.
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Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of Christ the Lord, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.

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