Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

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Author: Anne Rice
Narrator: Josh Heine
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christianity
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Date: November 2005
Length: 9 hours, 30 minutes
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Overview

Offering her most ambitious and courageous work yet, Anne Rice presents a novel based on the Gospels about the early years of Christ. The power of this story is derived from the passion through which its author summons the voice and words of Jesus, who tells the story.

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Wonderful!

by Lori
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Did not like it

by Tom
  • Book Rating: 2/5

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Reviews (13)

Wonderful!

Written by Lori on September 11th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Breathtaking! I would highly recommend this book! She sure surprised me! I read all her vampire books, then to come across this. I hope she does more books like this having to do with the bible.

Did not like it

Written by Tom on June 28th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 2/5

I listened to the first 5 or 6 chapters. I found it difficult to get into. It was very unlike Rice's typical spell-spinding novels.

Christ The Lord: Out Of Egypt

Written by Christopher McCaffrey on April 18th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Anne Rice has written a remarkable book that took me into the world of Jesus as a child. Through Ms. Rice's extensive research, I learned a great deal about ancient Alexandria, Jerusalem and Nazareth. Her Afterword which explains why she wrote this book, and how she researched this book, was also very illuminating.

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt

Written by Anonymous on January 22nd, 2008

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Interesting book with unique insights (guesses) into what the early life of Jesus may have been like. The book's main problem is the pace, which is ok early on and then begins to drag. The dialogue becomes a bit repetitive and boring at times. However, I still enjoyed the book,but was a bit disappointed by it.

vampires, please

Written by Raven on June 5th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 2/5

For years, I was a great Anne Rice fan. I read every one of the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches books and recommended her to friends. I don't, however, understand what happened to Anne Rice. Even with the Chronicles (and other departures such as Violin), she had lost her touch ... almost as if her success had gotten the better of her and she was churning the books out. Her writing became long, drawn out & repetitive, and one had to search for the story. I decided to give this book a try. What I found was a book that was aimless and boring. When my interest would pique, Rice would go into one of her pointless soliloquies (such as Joseph telling a Bible story verbatim)that did nothing to move the plot, altho' the character of young Jesus had great potential. I couldn't even bring myself to listen to the 2nd half of the book. Perhaps Rice is out of her element, and should return to her witches and vampire tales ... the way she used to tell stories.

Christ the Lord

Written by Lore Hiney on May 20th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I have read all of Anne Rice's books and this follows her detail for historic accuracy and intimate character development. Very difficult subject to write about and she does it as only she can and still respect the subject matter. Her ability and integrity in this book shine. This is a subject dear to her heart and the development of her character is intiguing and thought provoking. Points of interest are how she dealt with Jesus discovering who he was and how people close to him dealt with him. I honestly never gave it much thought, but her character study, if you will, brought a new demention to my prespective. Loved reader as well. Yes it was show at some points, but well worth it in the end.

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt

Written by Cindy P from New Hampton, IA on March 27th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Outstanding! A departure from Ms. Rice's usual subjects, but done with the same attention to detail. She paints a believable picture with words of everyday life during the early childhood of Christ. The dialog between characters flows naturally, and even though it is a work of fiction, I believe it gave me a greater feel for the time and culture that Jesus was born into. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

Written by Barbara Necastro on January 4th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Great history, but the book seemed to me to end abruptly.

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt

Written by Taos B&B lady on December 2nd, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

This is my first Anne Rice book, so I can't compare her writing here to her previous books. The thing that caught my imagination was the quality of her research and the idea of what Jesus thought and felt as a child. This very human approach to the Christ was interesting and not the usual Sunday school stuff. This seems to be the first book in a series, and I look forward to hearing the others as well.

Zzzzzz

Written by Anonymous on October 17th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 2/5

I loved the premise, I am very please that Ann has decided to write about the life of Jesus. However, this book moved so slow and the narrator had not emotion in his voice and did not change his voice as each character spoke. I also felt that this book didn't have Ann's usual writing that flows so well. I found myself hearing repetitive phrases as well as she explained each character several times over. I hope she doesn't give up on this genre, I just hope she gains her usual writing style back. She seemed to have lost herself in this book.

Selected Reviews

Wonderful!

by Lori
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Did not like it

by Tom
  • Book Rating: 2/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Rice, Anne

Born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Named after her father, Anne changed her first name in 1947 on her first day of school. She studied at Texas Women's University (1959Ð60), San Francisco State College (1964 BA; 1971 MA), and at the University of California, Berkeley (1969Ð70). After a variety of jobs, including waitress, cook, and insurance claims examiner, she began her career as a writer of erotica and vampire novels.

Rice gained a vast cult readership for her supernatural novels. Her first, Interview with the Vampire, was published in 1976. The book was the first in her popular Vampire Chronicles series, which includes 1985's The Vampire Lestat and 1988's The Queen of the Damned. Interview with the Vampire was made into a film in 1996 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Rice was also known for her sadomasochistic erotica, including Beauty's Punishment (1984). Later novels include Servant of the Bones (1996) and Vittorio the Vampire (1999). She also writes mainstream fiction using the pen name of Anne Rampling.

Much to the chagrin of her fans, Rice renounced her vampire novels after her return to the Catholic faith in 1998. It was then that she published Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, her first novel in a trilogy chronicling the life of Jesus. She has since left New Orleans to live in Southern California in an effort to escape her fame as a novelist and live a simpler life.

Rice was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Their daughter, Michele, was born in 1966 and died of leukemia in 1972 at the age of five. Their son, Christopher, was born in 1978 and is a novelist.