Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-28
ISBN: 0345409671
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
Book Review: My favorite of the Vampire Chronicles.
Summary: 5 Stars
After the impressive Tale of the Body Thief I wasn't sure what Anne would come up with next.
I literally tore through Memnoch in about three or four days.
What a story it is.
The imagery of the next world is nothing short of amazing.
The entire story between God and Memnoch is brilliant.
It really is a reflection of my own beliefs, is God really the good guy and the devil the bad guy.
What are their motives for doing what they're doing, and like Lestat, will we ever really be given the answers.
I find it strange that Rice has gone back to the church for answers, they never had the RIGHT answers for me.
Oh well, it's her life and her career and she is free to do as she pleases.
Besides, this really was the last great Vampire book she did.
The books after this? It seems she was losing interest in the whole story.
Then she started crossing the Vampire books with the Witches and the whole thing just got too..........messy.
As for Memnoch, easily the most brilliant of the Vampire books.
Interesting story, interesting characters.
A page turner from first to last page.
Highly recommended!!!
Summary of Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News
"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."
--Rolling Stone
"SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PACED."
--USA Today
"Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series. . . . Fans will no doubt devour this."
--The Washington Post Book World
"MEMNOCH THE DEVIL OFFERS PASSAGES OF POETIC BRILLIANCE."
--Playboy
"[MEMNOCH] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."
--The Seattle Times
The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud.
Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.
Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's just that her imagination ran away with her.
If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo
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