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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345409676
ISBN number: 0345409671
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: May 28, 1997
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: May 28, 1997
Sale Popularity Level: 6929
Studio: Ballantine Books
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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 very first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo
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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
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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-religious book. Fans of Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and even Tale of the Body Thief will enjoy volume 5 immensely. Those who preferred Queen of the Damned, I must say you're out of luck again... But never fear, another child of the millennia tells the story of his live and afterlife with David Talbot's help: The Vampire Armand.
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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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When Lestat is confronted by the devil and is told that he has an explanation for his actions and that God is the one with problem, I thought Anne Rice had backed herself into a corner that was impossible to write your way out of. But she did it! This book is dark and gruesome and well worth the read just for the dialogue between Lestat and Memnoch and how the author spins biblical lore in a new direction. The only drawback is the ending that is a bit deflating. I expected more of a revelation for Lestat and it never came. But, that's just me.
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This was so different from her other books, but in a delighfully dark and good way. You really get sucked into the storytelling and you envision Lestat and his journey. It is full of religious passages and undertones, yet, it doesn't derail you from the fact that you are reading a wonderful vampire novel. Its all quite interesting, even for someone who is not religious. It is most definetely a controversial book, no doubt, but I found it stunning and amazing. It gripped me from beginning to end. Every character is filled with flaw and its heartbreaking at times and always mesmerizing. I have read it 3 times already and I could read it another 3 without ever getting tired from it, there is always new secrets to discover. A must read.
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