Memnoch the Devil

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Summary: Not worthy of the chronicles
Review: As a big fan of the first four Vampire Chronicles books I was extremely disappointed by this book. The author spent too much time preaching a rather unusual theological perspective and lost the main flow of the story. I found myself skipping huge sections of text without missing any of the plot. The Chronicles have always had a theological aspect to them, but it never consumed the story until this book. Your time would be better spent reading or re-reading the first four books in this series, particularly the second one.

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Summary: Anne rice's best novel by far
Review: While many fans of the series may find this book a more difficult read than the earlier and now later novels, the book offers more intelligence than the previous novels (and many of the later ones as well if not all) The wordyness in the book helps to define the different characters and show on a grand scale the world in which these characters live, have lived, and how it all begins. just from talking to people i know who have read it and reading the reviews on here... older people seem to appreciate the book more. As for Lestat...well i must say i liked his character both ways here and there because they are one and the same...the more human lestat comes from seeing the devil and hell itself....i suggest reading the book again in a few years (even if you were older when you read it the first time) and taking your time while you read it...but overall i felt it was my favorite of rice's works thus for becuase the book showed off beautiful language and the characters where extremely deep and well thought out.

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Summary: What to say about a book like this?
Review: This is one of those books that will capture your imagination. It has it flaws, but it was still well written. I don't hate this book, but I didn't love it. I think that Anne Rice was running out of ideas and decided to write something about the two most controversial things on this Earth, God and the Devil. The fact that God was depicted as being evil and not caring was a bit too exagerated. Memnoch seemed too good. He talked about the history of God and his angels, yet we still know nothing about him and God and why they truly fight. You need to know Christanity quite well, which I don't, to understand this book. I loved the other books much better and hope that Anne Rice makes books like the first ones. This book just shocked me a lot and I just don't really know how to describe it!

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Summary: Could have been much better
Review: Having read almost the entire series now I can say this is not one that I would ever go back and read again. I found this book very difficult to finish, not because it was hard to follow but just because it was so wordy, and extremely boaring. It took much longer to get through this then I expected it to. I had to force myself to finish this book. I couldn't just skip through it and then read the others and expect to know what was going on. So I eventually finished it. The series as a whole is great, but this book in the series is not one that I would reccommend, or say is the best, I wouldnt even call it the 2nd best. In my opinion it was more like the worst.
I like the idea of useing Memnoch, and writing a book about him. His actual historical background is really interesting. However had it been done in a different way then it was and had it not been as lengthy and wordy as it was then maybe it could have been better. Anne Rice seems to have this problem. She sometimes gets to discriptive and leaves NOTHING to the imagination. She uses 500 pages to say what some could say in 300 and it still be as effective. I am now reading The Vampire Armand, and it is MUCH BETTER than Memnoch was... I would definatly reccommend TVA....

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Summary: One of the best
Review: Well, this one was certainally different. I loved it. It was the kind of book that really put you to thinking. A book that you remember. One of the greatest of the Vampire Chronicles. It was the kind of book that you keep around and read again.

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Summary: Definately Not the Best In the Chronicles
Review: I am an extreme Anne Rice fan, But this book has to be the worst in the Vampire Chronicles. I found it very hard to read but forced myself to finish it after an attempt to skip the ending made it difficult to follow the later books in the series. I felt that it was extremely long winded and the point was often lost.Before this book the thought of over describing a situation had never crossed my mind, Rice definately managed to do so. Had it not been a necessary step in the evolution of the chronicles I would have never gotten past the first chapter.

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Summary: Yeah!
Review: In the fifth Vampire Chronicle, Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and wants something from him. While torn betwen his vampire world and his passion for Dora, Lestat is sucked in by Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil himself. Memnoch presents Lestat with unimagined opportunities: to witness creation, to visit purgatory, to be treated like a prophet. Lestat faces a choice between the Devil or God. Whom does he believe in? Who does he serve? What are the elements of religious belief? Lestat finds himself caught in a whirlpool of the ultimate choice.
This one matched the first two and with a more *magical* touch in the way Anne presented the first 50 pages. It was alluring and more of a spider web the way she spinned the events around the reader.

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Summary: Why is everyone bashing this masterpiece.
Review: This book is undoubtably her best work. Anne Rice takes Chrisitanity and rips it up by the roots to remake it in her own image. Im sure at first this is hard for some Christians to stomach. In my mind this is a perfect explaination of who and why we are. For me this is the only thing that would give Chrstianity any real basis and proof. It is a must read for anyone. I dont thing this deserves to be bashed like it is for it is a amazing book.

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Summary: More whining from vampires
Review: This one was disappointing to me. I thought it better than Tales of the Body Thief, but that is not saying a whole lot. I think a lot of the problem is that I am just getting tired of L'Estat's whining, and tortured, repentant vampires in general, even when they do meet god and the devil.

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Summary: Horrible
Review: I hated this book. I had read and loved all the other books in the series, but this one just (wasnt very good). You simply don't mix religion and fantasy. It takes the wonderful setting from the previous books, and turns it upside down. DON'T read this book. It is stupid and disgusting. If you are reading the vampire cronicles, just skip over it. Its not worth the time.