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Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5)
by: Anne Rice

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345409676
ISBN: 0345409671
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: May 28, 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: May 28, 1997
Studio: Ballantine Books
Sales Rank: 9512

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Editorial Review:

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"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

Amazon.com Review:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A Reality Unlike Anything I Have Ever Read Before
In the dark futile recesses of my once lurid imagination there existed a place close to what Memnoch would describe as hell. I was fascinated by this character and the world he hid so easily in. This book gives a strong presentation of what I always enjoyed about Anne Rice's novels. It envelopes the reader into the shadows of soggy street corners and mysterious silhouettes only to reveal a hidden underworld that makes even vampires cringe. Are we being inducted into an alternate theology or introduced to a feeling that can only be visited by our souls? That is up to the reader to decide. Either way, it was one of the few stories that truly pulled me from this reality and into another that appeared unlike anything I have ever read before.

Rating:

- tedious and unenjoyable
Being a fan of the other books in the Chronicles, this was especially disappointing. I found myself repeatedly glancing at pages ahead to see how long until the chapter ended so I could put the book down and take a break. As I read, I kept thinking to myself "blah, blah, blah...." You move from a gangster's ghost blathering on about his life, to Memnoch doing the same with his "take" on Creation and the Fall. Neither character made me feel sympathetic or that either made a convincing argument in their self-justification. I typically re-read books later on, but I'll be skipping this one when I re-visit the Vampire Chronicles.

Rating:

- Poor Anne
I confess, I didn't make it very far into this book. Anne's battle with christian bs really shows with this entry into her once interesting if not fascinating vampire series. It's sad how she regressed from her intriguing pre-jesus vampire mythology going back to ancient Egypt to the same old god devil jews and their damn bible Bermuda triangle. Oh well. Pandora I think came after this and is surprisingly good. Go figure. Now she's all about the big J

Rating:

- Glorious Take on Dante
The Vampire Lestat is at it again and now, back from his romp in a human body, the Devil himself is after him. (****Spoilers****) Upon stalking and finally killing a drug baron in the shadow of St. Patrick's, Lestat is visited by his ghost, who tells him a tale of human morality and a heretical sect of the church only to be interrupted by The Devil Memnoch himself. As Dante was led through Hell into Heaven, Lestat is lead by the Devil (who prefers the name Memnoch by the way) from Heaven and the tale of earth's creation and his own, perhaps inevitable, fall, and into the depths of hell itself in his quest to make Lestat his Lt. What Lestat decides will change the course of humanity and vampires forever.

Once again, Rice offers an intense, highly thought-out philosophical and quasi ... Read More

Rating:

- Increible libro de Anne Rice
En realidad pienso que este libro vale mucho la pena, y la verdad el precio es increible en mexico este libro cuesta al rededor de $500 pesos asi que esta super barato.

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