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Summary: Don't even bother.....*SPOILERS*
Review: This book is so far fetched, it makes flying pigs seem believable! What this book should be titled is "Anne's Religious Diatribe". From start to finish it is nothing but a theological study. If I want that, I think I'll buy book about it! Not a novel which is supposed to be about vampires. There are horrible inconsistancies in this book. Vampires are supposedly unable to see spirits (based on what we are told in QotD by Maharet and Jesse) but suddenly in this book Lestat can have an endless (and I DO MEAN endless!) conversation with one. Vampires who have no interest or professed faith in God commit suicide for no apparent reason over a christian artifact. And then we have the character of Dora, who is nothing but a Mary Sue so Anne can fantasize about herself ... This character is so loopy and pointless it's frustrating! Don't bother with this. It's not worth the paper it's printed on, and has *nothing* to do with vampires. Read the first four novels and then stop. You're not missing anything.
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Summary: Disturbing in a way I cannot articulate.
Review: You're probably wondering why I titled my review, "Disturbing in a way I cannot articulate." and then gave the book five stars. The answer is simple, really.It's incredibly well written and imaginative. Anne Rice is famous for pushing the envelope with what society thinks is acceptable. That's one of the reasons I love her work so much. She has the courage to write what she envisions, social morays be damned. I respect that. Her imagery and descriptions in this book are haunting and unnerving, yet she presents it with a poet's grace. This book made me think. Actually, it made me think about things I didn't want to think about. Things I found disturbing and frightening. That's why I cannot read it a second time, as I do with most of her books. But she did it with her charateristic elegance and brilliance - which is why I gave it five stars. It's beautifully written. A remarkable book for those open-minded and intellectual enough to read it. For me - it caused nightmares of the most vivid and horrific kind. Your average vampire story just can't do that.
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Summary: Prepare to alter your view of Fiction
Review: This is not a book for the meek hearted or the narrow-minded. This book will challenge every belief you've ever had about God, the Devil, Heaven, Hell, Christ, Evil, and Good. It will Rock your foundation and force you to take another view at your reality. Every 'programmed' belief you've even had will be UN-programmed by this book. If you are mentally and psychologically ready for this, then pick this book up and do yourself the favor of reading it. Otherwise, leave well alone because you will not enjoy it, nor will you understand it. Lestat is his usual lovable, adorable, unbelievable self. He pushes all the boundaries. He explores all possible, and impossible realms. He's the worst Vampire, the most powerful, and the best! This time he challenges no less than the Devil Himself. Memnoch opens-up to Lestat, he shares his life, and his pain with him. He explains creation, and God to the Vampire we all love. He takes him on a journey through Hell, and a tour of Heaven. By the time you put down the book, you'll be saying "I wonder if..." Rice writes in her usual addictive style. Give yourself plenty of time.. this is not casual reading that can be done in small stretches and over a long period of time.. once you start, you'll not be able to put it down, even if you hate it! If you have not read of Rice's Vampire Chronicles, then do yourself a BIG favor and buy them all. They will change the way you see humanity...
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Summary: The Devil and This Book
Review: Of all of Anne Rice's books this is the one I like the least. I fact, I did not finish it, so I will review only what I read of it. It does not have the charisma of the other books. You really don't care much about what Lestat is doing. While all her books flirt with being a little sacrilegious, this one goes to bed with it. To me it's not so much an entertaining book as maybe one that is dealing with Anne's own questions of religion. That may be fine with some people, but I just want to read about the vampires, not religious conviction. It had a typical great beginning that draws you in, but the more I read, the more I got distracted by my own morals and ethics involved with what was happening to Lestat. I don't need that in my reading world.
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Summary: Complete and Utter Beauty
Review: This is an awesome continuation of the Vampire Chronicles. Anne's imagery and utter emotion are astounding, you can actually imagine yourself in Lestat's place. It's topic is controvertial, but what's the point of free speech and thinking if you can't have some little bit of controvercy? The book covers the age old conflict God vs. Memnoch (I have put memnoch in place of devil, because I just don't like the word devil. It's too vulgar), good vs. bad, truth vs. lies. I loved the book. And if you're a true lover of the Vampire Chronicles, you'll pick up the book anyway you can because I know you'll love it too.
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Summary: Memnoch the Devil
Review: I've read all of Anne Rice's Novels, excludiing Blood and Gold because it is not yet in paperback or in my local library. Reading a few of the reviews I decided to give my perspective.
Interview and all the books after Memnoch are almost from a different series, barring Merrick which I find a little difficult to place in the scheme of things. The Vampire Lestat through Memnoch are stories about Lestat. They are not really about the other characters. They are telling his story/stories. Memnoch, I think, is a look inside Lestat's soul or lack there of. Lestat's whole purpose has been to find truth, and draw attention to himself from everything and everyone. All his previous adventures challenged God and the Devil to see him, to watch him. In this novel he may have found the greatest of all truths or may not have. This is not a religious treatsie and I feel it stays very true to the character of Lestat and her other novels.
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Summary: One of the books that made the burning bush turn to ash.
Review: This was like some horrible alternate universe fanfiction. This is the point where Anne Rice has officialy lost it. The only books of her I hate as much or more than this is the second half of Armand (the first half was fabulous) & her ultimate betrayal to her characters & her fans in Merrick.
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Summary: Not the best Anne Rice book
Review: This is not a bad book, but it isn't a good one either. At times it becomes boring, but the path of logic that Anne carries out is very scary and that's what kept me reading the book. It's not as easy to read as other of the her books and there are better books by Anne Rice.
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Summary: By far the greatest addition to the Vampire Chronicles
Review: Anne Rice has truly done it, a story so unbelievable that if written by anyone other than Rice herself it would be complete absurdity. Anne Rice is a true master of the craft, which is so obviously displayed in this story. Rice boldly travels where few authors have ever dared, Heaven and hell itself. A rich and dazzling tale made for true intellectual thought, this isn't just a story to be read passively. Rice has pain stainkenly and passionately described both sides of heaven and hell. Yet with true Anne Rice style she has made it an open ending for the reader to decide fact from fiction. Can't you see the true genius of the irony in it? The reader is so consumed deciding which side is truth that you completely forget its only fiction. Memnoch is absolute genius, completely brilliant.
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Summary: A Thought-Provoking Piece...
Review: I admit, when I first sat down to read this book, I didn't know what to expect; I had heard so many different opinions of it.
And I will say one thing: this is not for someone just starting the Vampire Chronicles! It is meant for the readers who have followed Lestat through his life, and feel a close connection with him.
While I personally feel betrayed by this book, I can't think of a better way Rice could have written it.
Now, I don't feel betrayed because I disliked the book, rather, I feel betrayed for the lack of ending she gave us...what happens to Lestat??? I know that others, like myself, are eager for Rice to write more of our favorite Vampire.
I can't remember another book so deeply affecting me that I sat for hours just pondering what she wrote...and this book is by no means for readers who like fast-paced action! It is for those who appreciate the more philosophical aspect to Rice's work, which has always been there, from the first pages of Interview With the Vampire. Memnoch truly does tug at your heart with his sympathetic retelling of Creation and Christian lore. I found myself, although already knowing the ending, wanting to believe in Memnoch, wanting his story to be true...or hoping maybe that he had been misinformed by God, that he had misunderstood...because I didn't want Memnoch to be a bad guy!
Memnoch is a perfect reflection of our own dear Lestat. Lestat admits to being evil, and we can't help but love him all the more for it, because we know that his heart isn't evil!
Personally, while reading this, I was reminded strongly of Lestat's journeys with Akasha during Queen of the Damned. Lestat was being told by someone whom he loved, yet was also inherently evil, that they were good, and that they had a plan for goodness, if only Lestat would help them!
A truly heart felt book, I think. I wonder...did Anne cry when she finished it? I would have...
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