Trade Paperback, 965 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 1991 by Ballantine Books.
Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.
Moving in time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in. source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/153717/the-witching-hour-by-anne-rice/
Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.
Moving in time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in. source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/153717/the-witching-hour-by-anne-rice/
A story that could have been told in a quarter the length. Well written enough that when I picked up the book I felt like I was entering another world. But it’s one I skim read through, nothing to be gained from circular flowery writing, pages and pages of characters explaining stuff to eachother.
Necrophilia and rape isn’t really my jam either.
The book endorsement on the back cover of my paperback edition claims that Anne Rice surpasses Stephen King. I do not believe that to be true!
This is quite a long-winded tedious story that could have been much fewer pages. It might make for great movie/series or whatever, but took a long time to get rolling.
This is my first experience with a book by Anne Rice so I will accept that I might have had a better experience starting with some other story. There is a good chance I will not try another book by this author, however I am interested to sample the Mayfair Witches tv series. Lots of space to for the experiences of a hapless husband married to a witch; "Bewitched" anyone? (... I don't think so)
The book endorsement on the back cover of my paperback edition claims that Anne Rice surpasses Stephen King. I do not believe that to be true!
This is quite a long-winded tedious story that could have been much fewer pages. It might make for great movie/series or whatever, but took a long time to get rolling.
This is my first experience with a book by Anne Rice so I will accept that I might have had a better experience starting with some other story. There is a good chance I will not try another book by this author, however I am interested to sample the Mayfair Witches tv series. Lots of space to for the experiences of a hapless husband married to a witch; "Bewitched" anyone? (... I don't think so)
Tiene la nota que tiene porque, en general, es una historia interesante y te engancha. Pero voy a echar pestes porque he terminado muy a disgusto, quizás lo edite más tarde.
Es insoportablemente larga y lenta en algunas partes, la cantidad de paja que tiene este libro debería ser ilegal. La segunda parte, la historia de las Mayfair, podría reducirse mucho. Y en la tercera parte, los interludios de nada que se marca entre las escenas importantes son no aportan absolutamente nada.
No me convence el desarrollo del personaje de Rowan en la última parte, aunque quizás sea algo que tenga que reflexionar. Y la explicación de la naturaleza de Lasher, que la autora quiere vender como algo profundo, interesante y original, es ridícula y echa para atrás. Y todo por la usar un cientifismo innecesario
A very elaborate history of a family, a little longer than it needs to be
