I have to admit that in high school I read most of the Vampire Chronicles.  I always thought that The Vampire Lestat was the best of the bunch, but I never ever thought I'd see Anne Rice writing Christian fiction.

Her books were as far from that as anything I'd ever read; often combining the vampiric legend with a strong sexual overtone. In fact I remember much question of the nature of faith itself; what was really good what was really evil, what is god and satan, things of that nature.

Why did I pick the book up originally? Honestly I was bored and in the library one day when I remembered hearing the book read on an old TV show.

(Vampira: mistress of the dark. Showed old horror and sci fi movies.  Anyone remember her?)

So I picked up the book and found it interested me despite my understanding that these books weren't exactly good reading...  As in good for ones mind ;) They were well written however and held my interest quite readily, for the first few volumes at least.

I stopped reading Ms. Rice around my early twenties, although I had a friend that read everything she put out with a ferocity that he applied to most things he enjoyed. (Big Kiss fan too, even owned the action figures.)

It surprised me when I read an article about Anne converting to Christianity and selling her once vaunted New Orleans estate.  I also read she was writing a book about Christ, from his point of view no less...  as a child.

Sometimes when you learn what to expect out of the world; things get flipped and turned upside down.  For me this is one of those cases; I never in my life thought this writer of sexual gothic horror would ever writ something like this:

Out of Egypt

I guess it goes to show you what I really know about life and that despite what we might think about people they are merely... human. 

I've read both positive and negative reviews on this book; I'm thinking about picking it up tomorrow just to see what the book is like.

Anne Rice now says she will only write for the Lord.  It'll be interesting to see what else comes out of this new found commitment.