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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I am a big fan of Anne Rice, and while I loved her Vampire Chronicles and the tales of the Mayfair Witches, this is by far my favorite book by her. It weaves a superb story of love and lost, of vengeance and sorrow, incorporating the wonderful history and essence of Egypt in it as well. I simply loved it and I advise all to read it!
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Summary: The Mummy
Review: Anne Rice's The Mummy is based on the reawkening of Edwardian London, who later is known as the mummy called Ramses the Damned, London was cursed before he died. He drank the Elixir of life, which makes him immortal, and slaved to his love who sends him on a killing rampage. The mummy is a must for anyone who appreciates creativity and brilliance. Anne Rice fulfilles all requirements a spectator could fathum. Her brilliance is best demonstrated when she aparted the blocked buster hit the mummy, from her novel. Her creativity was best demonstrated when she preceeded to get into the antagonist's head, instead of focusing on the protagonist actions, like in the big blockbuster hit the mummy. Anne rice's The Mummy is a masterpiece that portrays exquisite imagination, brilliance, excitement, and terror. Thus, if you are one who seeks and favors these qualities in a novel, then Anne Rice's The Mummy is the book that you won't want to pass up.
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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: The Mummy or Ramses the damned, great book if you are into Egypt and the wonderful writing style of Anne Rice. She is the master of the supernatural. As soon as you are done with this book, you will want to read more. Still waiting for the sequel.
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Summary: My Fair Mummy
Review: Rice sticks to her vampire themes by abandoning her vampire trappings, with good results.Like most of Rice's best work, The Mummy deals with the trials of immortality, and existential angst. It reads like an Agatha Christie novel, or a period melodrama or soap opera, and plays with some of the most absurd plot elements imaginable, yet Rice manages to pull it all off and leave you wanting more. Egyptologist Julie Stratford inadvertently awakens the mummy of Ramses the Damned, who is actually an immortal taking a very long nap. He's really a very handsome and urbane fellow, once he's free of those dusty bandages and rehydrated a bit. He's also a very quick learner, not only picking up the English language, but even managing the British accent to go with it, faster than you can sing your favorite song from My Fair Lady. He slips with ease into English society, and becomes embroiled in the nasty and potentially lethal melodrama that is Julie's present life. Along the way, he misses his old mistress, Cleopatra, and makes the mistake of waking her up - she just isn't quite her old Elizabeth Taylor self anymore, being a wee bit testy and homicidal in her brain-damaged state. Yes, it all sounds ridiculous, but it works, in a sort of romantic fantasy way, and is quite dramatic and sometimes horrific, to boot. The one real flaw with this novel is that it doesn't have a proper ending, which is a failing of nearly all Rice's works. The whole thing would fall flat on its face if Rice either cracked a smile at any point during the telling of the tale, or, conversely, made the mistake of expecting it to be taken in all seriousness, but instead she simply presents the piece as a kind of wonderfully escapist 1950s or '60s Saturday matinee. I do have one complaint, however. Rice promised this series would continue. So? When?
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Summary: Blessedly Different
Review: I bought this book expecting it to be about vampires, as usual. I mean, honestly, when you think Anne Rice, you think Vampires. They go together kind of like cookies and milk. But, as I got into The Mummy, I realized it was not the typical vampire story I was expecting. It opened my eyes a bit, and got me looking for more books by Rice that are not amidst the Vampire Chronicles. I was definitely pleasantly surprised :)
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Summary: NICE RENDITION OF THE MUMMY TALE
Review: When I picked up this book, I didn't know what to expect, I was hoping more for a mummy tale where the mummy was wrapped in bandages for the entire story, but what I got was different. Ramsey is this stud muffin that has a romance with Julie the main charactor. To make a long story short, I thought the action was fair and the story well thought out, even if she based it on a screenplay previously written in the 80's. But Anne Rice is not my favorite writer, and it will be awhile till I can get the strength up enough to read another one of her books.
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Summary: A Great Book Without a Great End
Review: First off I want you to know I won't give anything away about the book. If I'm trying to decide to read a book or watch a movie I don't want to be told the end, so I won't tell it to you. However this will be hard because it's the end of the book that I wasn't happy with! I've been a fan of Anne Rice ever since I saw the movie Interview With the Vampire and HAD to run out and buy the book and poured through the whole series as fast as I possibly could. I LOVED that series. Once I ran out of books in the Vampire Chronicles I went out and found this one. I started it and read the first eighty or so pages and then got distracted and spent too much time away before picking it up again. It wasn't that the beginning was bad, much to the contrary, it was fascinating! I didn't want to stop reading, but things happen and I did. Well when I picked it up again it had been too long so I had to start over. It was a bit tedious to read through again, but since it was such a good start I didn't mind too much. I was determined not to put it down this time and though I didn't have very much time to sit and read, I managed to find some here and there and after a few weeks was finally done. That was when I found my surprise. I had read this great book with terrific characters and a captivating plot only to find that the end fell very flat. Of course it's hard to describe without giving it away, but there are certain characters that you expect to at least end up happy that aren't even given a second thought and are brushed aside and others that are given almost a fairy tale ending that isn't really very satisfying considering how their character had behaved throughout the book! I also hated how one character was built up to be this amazing person and when you meet them you wish you hadn't because you like the other image much better. Considering this has a partially historic basis to it there's bound to be some fictional playing with those ancient characters, but I didn't really like how she did it. As far as plot, here's the basic plot without giving it all away. Lawrence Stratford is a rich man who spends his remaining years as an archeologist in Egypt where he finds the tomb of Ramses the Damned. Ramses has all these things written around the tomb making reference to him being an immortal man which few believe until he steps out of his coffin a little later in the book. The contents of the tomb are sent back to his home in England where his daughter Julie resides. She is about 21 and very intelligent, but engaged to a man named Alex who really doesn't give her the challenge and adventure her bursting heart needs. He's a wonderful man, just a little too "nice" for her if you know what I mean. Enter Ramses who sweeps her off her feet leaving poor Alex to fend for himself, but that's getting a little ahead. I think I should tell you about her cousin Henry who's a drunk and avid gambler perpetually wasting away his fortune and getting into a great deal of trouble. He has absolutely no redeeming qualities which I find surprising because Anne usually give at least some to her characters. Never the less we all hate him and spend most of the book wishing Ramses would rip his head off. :) One more character worth noting here is Elliot. He is the Lord of Ruthford which gives him status in society, but unfortunately the money with the title left long ago and he is spending a great deal fo the book hoping to get Julie, the daughter of his long time friend Lawrence, and his son Alex to marry to bring some of her wealth to his title. Now don't get me wrong, he's not a bad man, he just has a few failings, and as much as he would like the money, he knows it probably won't happen and wants what's best for Julie as well as Alex. Now the characters are generally interesting and I warn you that Anne Rice often spends a lot of time going into great detail about her character's lives, so the actual action of the book is a little slow coming as we introduce the characters, but as I said, the beginning of the book is hardly boring. I recommend the book because the plot was good even if the end wasn't and the characters were engaging. I think you'd enjoy it if you know not to expect too much from the ending. There's some sexual content, so be careful about letting young children read this or any of her work for that matter. However it's nothing compared to other pieces of her work and those scenes are often very brief, but they are there. I hope I've helped and I hope you enjoy the book!
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Summary: Wish there were a sequel, or do I?
Review: This is one of the first Anne Rice books I read in the early 1990s. I loved it! I've also read many of Anne Rice's books in the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches series'. In the 1990s I wondered, Why didn't she write more about Ramses the Damned? But as her books have begun to drag in some areas or contain far too many characters to keep track of in recent years I've thought instead, Why mess with a good thing? If you don't like Anne Rice's later books, you may very well like this one.
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Summary: The Best Book I Have Ever Read
Review: This is by far the best book i've read! It's a tale of mystery, action, and love. It is full of memorable characters from Elliot to Samir and Alex to Cleopatra. I instantly fell in love with the character of Ramses. He is so innocent but at the same time he is regal and sophisticated. The romance between Ramses and Julie was the most beatuiful love I have ever read. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a great story!
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Summary: The Mummy
Review: I am not an Anne Rice Fan. I tried to read Interview with a Vampire, and it was so tedious, I quit. I read the Witch series, but I quit after three books. I picked up The Mummy in a used book store because I was desparate for something to read. I stayed up all night to finish it, and rushed to the nearest book store to get the second volume, only to find out, she never wrote it. I loved it. I would love to see Adrian Paul (Highlander) play the part or Sean Connery (may be too old). I hate that she didn't do the next part, and left us hanging with the monster Cleopatra running around the countryside killing. Nothing heavy, but a real entertaining read. 03/18 I just found out from her website, she doesn't plan to do the next one.
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