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Memnoch the Devil [Mass Market Paperback]

Anne Rice (Author)
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Release Date: May 28 1997 | Series: Vampire Chronicles
"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."
--New York Daily News

"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."
--Rolling Stone

"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."
--USA Today

"Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."
--The Washington Post Book World

"MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."
--Playboy

"[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."
--The Seattle Times

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The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud.

Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.

Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's just that her imagination ran away with her.

If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo

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Rice has made a career out of humanizing creatures of supernatural horror, and in this fifth book of her Vampire Chronicles she requests sympathy for the Devil. Having survived his near-fatal reacquaintance with human mortality in The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), the world-weary vampire Lestat is recruited by the biblical Devil, Memnoch, to help fight a cruel and negligent God. The bulk of the novel is a retelling of the Creation story from the point of view of the fallen angel, who blames his damnation on his refusal to accept human suffering as part of God's divine plan. Rice grapples valiantly with weighty questions regarding the justification of God's ways to man, but their vast scope overwhelms the novel's human dimensions. God and the Devil periodically put on the flesh of mortals, and too often end up sounding like arguing philosophy majors. Meanwhile, the ever-fascinating Lestat, whose poignant personal crisis of faith is mirrored in Memnoch's travails, becomes a passive observer, dragged along on trips to Heaven and Hell before being returned to Earth to relate what he has witnessed. Though Rice boldly probes the significance of death, belief in the afterlife and other spiritual matters, one wishes that she had found a way to address them through the experiences of human and near-human characters, as she has done so brilliantly in the past. One million first printing; BOMC and QPB main selections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Simply Awful Jan 16 2004
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have read nearly all of Anne Rice's vampire/witch chronicles and fell in love with the stories. A friend and I trade the books and can't wait to discuss each new twist, however, Memnoch will not be one which we will ever read again. This book was dreadfully wordy and the story was awful. There was nothing about this book which will lead me to read it again. After I finally reached the mid-point of the story I began skimming the paragraphs just to get through. I have never done this with any other Anne Rice book. I cringe whenever anyone asks me what I thought of this book and quickly refer them to The Witching Hour, Blackwood Farm, Blood and Gold, Interview with the Vampire, etc. as those books are where Anne writes a wonderfully absorbing tales. Don't bother with Memnoch. Future stories do refer back to ideas and scences in this book but it is just not worth spending the time to struggle through this book for the minor mentions in other books.
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5.0 out of 5 stars it is a real page turner!!!! Jan 8 2013
By Pyretta
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I promise you won't be disappointed, especially if you are an Anne Rice fan! Beware that you must read 'The Vampire Chronicles' in order as to understand the characters and their history.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Too emphasized on God Mar 22 2012
By Christine Déry
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I find Anne Rice's book way too descriptive at moments.
Usually, I find it takes too long for the story to become interesting. However, when I start liking the story, it lasts until the last page.

However, with this book, it was the opposite.
It started very good and then it became bad... very bad...
I stopped reading it.
I was in the middle of the book and nothing was going on... no action... just Lestat talking about God to Memnoch...
It was way too religion-oriented for my taste... big disappointment.
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2.0 out of 5 stars It's not the same fluent story..
After the 4th book-THE STORY OF THE BODY THIEF-that was mesmerizing, convincing and lots of fun, I was looking forward to this one, and... was deeply disappointed. Read more
Published on May 2 2010 by P. Gurevich
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking
I found this to be Anne Rice's best book. On one hand it is not a typical "horror" story, but then, what greater horror is there than to be considered by the devil an equal? Read more
Published on Mar 6 2007 by AvidRdr
5.0 out of 5 stars Review by Bonnie
This book was absolutely phenomenal! I own the entire Vampire Chronicles and this is Anne Rice at her very best! This is by far my favorite book in the series so far. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2004 by Bonnie Lynn Appel
5.0 out of 5 stars what a fast read!
While i consider Anne Rice to be an exceptional writer, sometimes i find it hard to work through a few of her books. Read more
Published on May 29 2004 by Griffin Amaris
5.0 out of 5 stars should get 10 stars!
Love the philosophical aspect of this novel. Totally recommend this book!
Published on May 22 2004
2.0 out of 5 stars Way Too Much of a Religious Theme for a Horror Novel
Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice's fourth book that came out before this one, was one of my personal favorites by Anne and I never thought that one day I would rate one of her... Read more
Published on April 28 2004 by Rocky
5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Rice's Divine Comedy
This is modern mythmaking at its finest. In the first three books of her Vampire Chronicles, Rice reinvented the vampire for our times. Read more
Published on April 10 2004 by Rick in NYC
5.0 out of 5 stars Good!
Good book, Anne Rice told her views of what Heavan and Hell is, it convinced me, except the whole Memnoch trying to get Lestat on his side. But the rest of it could be true. Read more
Published on Mar 19 2004 by "thecrowchicky69"
5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding
I wasn't sure if I would like the story or not, seeing how completely unreligious I am, but once I got into it more, it really hooked me. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2004 by "beautiful-midnight"
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Just a great book to read, a nice book to sit down and relax with because it will just bring you to the edge of your seat! Read more
Published on Mar 11 2004 by JET
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