Memnoch the Devil

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Summary: Changed My Perspective
Review: When I read this Rice novel, I didn't expect much. I thought the Vampire Chronicles were going downhill, so I didn't even bother buying this one and instead borrowed it. Boy was I surprised! This is the best book I've read in ages, and it definitely made me think long and hard about what I believed in. If you're looking for a quick, light read, this is not what you're looking for, but if you like to explore the extraordinary and enjoy using your mind, pick this one up!

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Summary: Earnest Goes To Hell
Review: Memnoch the Devil can't be written by Anne Rice, that's for sure! A weak plot, disappointing characters and an incredible end. This book is certainly NOT a part of the Vampire Chronicles, and the only hope is that Anne found back to her original writing style. More books like IWTV, TVL and QOTD, and no more Memnoch!

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Summary: TERRIFYING-THANK GOD IT WAS ONLY FICTION!
Review: My favorite Vampire is at it again, Lestat is Back! This time there is one Problem The Devil is after him. Looks like our Brat Price has finally met his match. After Reading this fifth enstallment of the Vampire Chronicles. I totally feared of what is going to happen to me when i die. Thank goodness it is only fiction, Pray that it is! Rice is at her best in this novel. This is a must read.

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Summary: Not the best
Review: I have read the other 4 vampire books (as well as Pandora) and this was not her best...in fact it could be pretty slow going at times (although not as excrutiating as "Violin"). If you want a good one, read "The Witching Hour" or "The Vampire Lestat." And what is the deal with killing Armand (so stupidly)? Her new book is an Armand chronicle. Does that make sense?

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Summary: A great finish to a great series
Review: As an avid Anne Rice fan, and a fanatic for her Vampire Chronicles, I thought Memnoch the Devil offered a riveting conclusion to a series of books filled with mysticism and intrigue. I didn't want to put it down, but had to because I didn't want it to end.

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Summary: Ann Rice goes to Vampire Sunday School
Review: Though in the past I have enjoyed Ann Rice's rich and colorful writing through the Vampire Chronicles I must say I was woefully dissappointed in this tale that seemed more like a Sunday school teacher on acid than the quality works of fiction I have in the past enjoyed.

After a nicely set scene about good old Lestat the reader is taken, literally, into Ms. Rice's chronicle of Christianity. Unless you are devout in your interest of such theology you will soon become desperate for a small bit of interesting upstaging or bloodsucking by Lestat, or anyone, only to suffer through hundreds of pages that look and read as boringly as the Bible itself.

I felt, truly, that Ms. Rice was attempting to make amends to a Christian god for her past writings, in the hope that he would now let her in through the Pearly Gates. As such, she should have dropped the middle 200 pages, and written a little short story.

I also know friends that were so terribly dissappointed it what she did with Armand that they swore never to read Ann Rice again.

Singly, the most dissappointing book I have read in the last several years.

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Summary: Fascinating Theological Journey
Review: This is not a book about vampires. It is an utterly absorbing subversion of our perhaps most deeply ingrained preconception--that the Devil is evil. I don't consider myself a fan of either Anne Rice or theological reading, but I was absolutely captivated by this new (to me) perspective on Judeo-Christian principles. The rest of the story (the vampires and so forth), offered nothing extraordinary. In fact, the first hundred pages or so seemed to get in the way of the thought-provoking material that followed.

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Summary: THE BEST WORK OF FICTION EVER DONE. PERIOD.
Review: While there is a stunning amount of poor review for this book, I personally would consider this far beyond "Rice's Best Work"; This is the best piece of fiction created in this century! I believe that people of less than intellectual standards will find this more difficult than the other books of this series, which may explain some poor reviews. Hardcore devout Christians might also be offended by Rice's views of creation, Heaven and Hell, and an extremely different view of the Temptation of Christ-told from the devil's point of view. The thing I found most fasinating was the realism presented in the plot-Rice has done her Judeo-Christian homework for the foundation. Aside from that, a brilliant plot and well developed new characters Memnoch and Roger. The first time I read this book, I read start to finish-I literally could not put it down. If you love fiction, regardless of your opinion of vampires or even Rice, READ THIS BOOK!!

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Summary: A great novel!. Outstanding.
Review: This book made me question my own theological beliefs. Anne has obviously mixed and matched various fringe religious beliefs. (Some of it matched some Gnostic beliefs). Nevertheless it has caused me to delve into various archane religions. Lestat was great as usual. People that are very religious and inflexible to new beliefs should burn this book before reading. Again, this is a top notch book. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Should never have been written
Review: I'm a huge fan of the Vampire Chronicles, and I love Lestat as much as any other obsessed fan. ;) Which is why, as far as I'm concerned, this book never should have happened. It completely destroys all of the theological/philosophical ideas that Rice was developing in the previous books. It would have been a great, even fascinating, book if she had NOT used the characters and "world" of the Vampire Chronicles. And I really don't think the book required them, she could have made her point using a new cast, on another world. But as it stands, I just hate it. It's well written (if you like Anne Rice's style), and does raise lots of good points to think about. But I cannot believe that the events of the book could *ever* happen to Lestat and the rest of the vampires. It takes _Queen of the Damned_ and just disintegrates its whole storyline! *WHAT* was Anne Rice thinking??

And the funny thing is, Anne Rice herself seems to have (by now) gotten over whatever compelled her to write this behemoth of sappy Catholicism, as she is now continuing her vampire series as if the events in Memnoch never even happened... (YAY!)