Memnoch the Devil

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Summary: Truly groundbreaking
Review: Rice has really pushed the envelope with her own concept of Heaven and Hell, God and the Devil. Lucifer actually WAS thrown out of Heaven, according to ancient sources, and this gives a reason why. I have never experienced a book like this before, with its controversial views of the truth behind Genesis, and the revelations that come to Lestat, who has thought he was a messenger of evil for so long. This novel would be excellent to use in theology classes in universitites around the world, just for the enlightening debate that could come from reading it.

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Summary: Chilling, haunting and very entertaining - One of her best.
Review: I thought this book was phenomenal. Anne takes you to places you may never experience in another book. From the gates of heaven to the depths of hell, you begin to wonder exactly what your own personal beliefs are. Very religious - Anne did a lot of research before writing this one. This book is very deep and you must be prepared to take this journey with Lestat with an open mind, or you just wont enjoy it or get it. This book stayed with me for a long time, but I can't wait to read it again.

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Summary: Egos don't come any bigger than this.
Review: The Vampire Lestat. No more dark mystery. No more dark profound immortal gift. Lestat is now just some git with "long nasty, pointy teeth", as the Monty Python boys would say. Memnoch belongs in Southern California at a victim counselling group, talking about how, you know, like totally misunderstood he is, kay? God is a bad tempered hippy with a beard. Anne tells us all we need to know about evolution and creation, coz she knows, you know. She was there, honest.

Anne is bored and has loadsa money, so its time to muck about with her readers for a good chuckle. If I had as much cash as her, I suppose I might feel like being as mischevious and see if I couldn't get away with writing a bit of old dross like Memnoch the Devil.

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Summary: Why?
Review: I must confess, I am very saddened by the outcome of this novel. I was on edge, excited and waiting for it to be released, only to be shocked by the sheer boringness of it. I do not know what Anne Rice was thinking when she wrote this novel, Her ways of being precise and overzealous with her plots and descriptions went overboard in this novel. I had to force myself to continue reading this mundane literary piece even though I was beside myself with shock. I think Anne Rice's creative juice have either stopped flowing, or are on their way to that destination. She did an extremely excellent job on the first four Vampire chronicles, and she should have STOPPED. I do not recommend you to waste your money or time, this book is definately not worth it. Read the Witching Hour, Cry to heaven or The Feast of ALL Saints, those are soo worth your time and effort!

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Summary: Kind of Boring...
Review: This was the most boring of the Vampire Chronicles. I consider myself a big fan of Anne Rice, yet I found myself skipping large chunks of this book. The character of Memnoch really didn't seem real, and the one thing I couldn't understand is why did Memnoch choose to show Lestat all of these things? As Anne even writes, even Lestat thinks that Louis would have been a better candidate. Or even Armand. However, somehow, this devil comes out to take the Brat Prince and show him Heaven and Hell. My reaction to this book is, "? "

I do enjoy the ending of this book. Especially one of the last lines, "Let me pass now from fiction into legend..." that was a great line. However, the rest of the book was confusing and boring.

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Summary: Can I go lower than 1?
Review: I never even finished it I was so disppointed. Lestat is once again cast into a cartoon light. No longer interesting.

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Summary: Menoch the devil was interesting
Review: This book is chilling. Its is a a great book of the vampire chronicle. It is by far the best book of Anne Rice i have ever read. Lestat the main character of the book who is sly and cunning. He stalks this big time drug dealer who is also a huge Art dealer. Who deals in tiny books by weinkne. Wienken is roger the dealers closeist thing to religon but is just a book about sex. Lestat is also inchanted by the dealers daghter. Dora is also a religous leader but not of wienkens religon but of a cross between cristian and cothlic. Lestat finely decides to kill her father but after killing him he turns to a ghost. He sits down and has a talk with lestat. Roger the dealer tells lestat his whole life story. Lestat promissed roger he would make his daughter except his gifts but not in a ruff way. Sence his daughter would have nothing to do with his elegal things. Once rger pass's into the beyond. Lestat then iherits his fortne. Lestat later is being followed by a shady man. Who later turns out to be menoch the devil. Who takes lestat to heaven and hell and through time. lestat soul is now locked in a battle between heaven and hell. Good and Evil. lestat almost is lot to the dark side but then bites the neck of jesus hanging on the cross and draws blood. Not as evilness but God gave him self to save the soul of this vampire lestat. Personally i could not but the book down. It is a great piece of literature. Deffenitly worht reading.

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Summary: Most disappointing Vampire Chronicle
Review: The best adjective I could use to sum up this book is "boring." All of Anne's other Vampire Chronicles are wonderfully entertaining, but not "Memnoch." It drones on and on with creation theories, about 200 pages of it. The only ok parts in it are when Daniel, Armand, Louis and Marharet have cameos.

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Summary: Interesting Philosophy
Review: The thinking behind this book has some interesting points to make and really does a wonderful job of creating the story. It's unfortunate that this book was (so obviously) written very quickly. Had Miss Rice taken the time to go back and edit and pull it more solidly together she could have constructed a true classic. As it stands, anyone who can look past the surface flaws and work with the core ideas will find material of interest. It should be noted that this is less a story of Lestat than the earlier Chronicles. It has the feel of an idea she wanted to explore which she chose to do by throwing Lestat into it, it doesn't seem that the story was really constructed for him.

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Summary: A point to remember.... it is fiction after all!
Review: Ms. Rice bewitched me again, but with this massive tale I was at moments enraged by her seemingly offensive look into our soul's state. But surely one must accept that she, is a storyteller of great imagination and we, feeling the emotions that we do while reading her work, must accept that many of her words have the power to enchant us. I enjoyed the adventure, came to loathe Lestat for his weaknesses and selfishness and all in all I am quite happy now that he is in a state of limbo, one hopes that Ms. Rice can simmer for a while as apposed to being on hot boil.