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Devoted Anne Rice fans will love Lasher. Those unfamiliar with Rice's work will do better to read the Vampire Chronicles. Lasher, the sequel to 1990's The Witching Hour, for all its apparent ambition, lacks the mesmerizing narrative power and cohesive, intriguing story line found in the other Rice novels...
...Lasher, Rice picks up the narrative thread left hanging at the end of The Witching Hour. At the end of The Witching Hour, Rice situates the reader in present-day New Orleans after a global jaunt through time tracking the incestuous Mayfair family of witches from their roots in Scotland to the powerful, respected family living in modern day New Orleans. In the opening chapters of Lasher, the heir to the Mayfair throne--Rowan Mayfair--has been spirited away from New Orleans by the demon Lasher. The whole of the novel is then taken up in the relentless pursuit...
...University of Cincinnati's William Lasher remarks, "Slang doesn't get written down, so it doesn't endure. If you do write it down, it gets into the language, and stops being slang." In a maniacally open electronic society, the news and entertainment industries sift hungrily through the culture searching for color, anecdote, personality, uniqueness and, of course, slang. All these items instantly become part of the show. Slang is wonderful entertainment. But its half-life is shorter now. Good slang gets commercial in a hurry, like certain country-music singers...
FIREFOX Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay by Alex Lasher and Wendell Wellman