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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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Any book by Rice is a hot commodity, especially in the wake of the movie version of Interview with the Vampire, but even so, a million copy print run for her latest, the fifth in the cultishly beloved Vampire Chronicle series, seems extreme. Rice has brought her suave and deadly hero, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, back to center stage at a tricky conjuncture in his long, monstrous life: the murderously powerful and seductive immortal is being stalked by some terrifying force he can't identify. This is interfering with his plans to kill Roger, a handsome drug dealer whose passion for religious art is only exceeded by his love for his daughter Dora, a lithesome televangalist. As Lestat spies on Roger, falls in love with Dora, and tries to figure out who or what is after him, he finds himself in the grip of a spiritual crisis. Yes, this dandyish bloodsucker wants desperately to discover the meaning of life, and, lo and behold, his stalker, Memnoch, the Devil himself, is just the creature to guide him. Memnoch claims that God is merciless and he is compassionate, and he needs Lestat to help him rescue humanity from this vale of tears. Rice routinely fills her novels with tedious pseudotheology, but she really goes overboard here. Not only does Memnoch take Lestat to Heaven where he talks with God, he even takes him back in time to the Crucifixion where the vampire drinks Christ's blood. This clumsily told tale manages to be both ludicrous and offensive. Surely only die-hard Vampire Chronicle fans will be able to stand it, but they, like Rice's monsters, seem to be rampant. Donna Seaman
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Rice has really pushed the envelope with her own concept of Heaven and Hell, God and the Devil. Lucifer actually WAS thrown out of Heaven, according to ancient sources, and this gives a reason why. I have never experienced a book like this before, with its controversial views of the truth behind Genesis, and the revelations that come to Lestat, who has thought he was a messenger of evil for so long. This novel would be excellent to use in theology classes in universitites around the world, just for the enlightening debate that could come from reading it.
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I am rather sick of people saying "Why does Anne Rice have to change? I want her to write the same stuff she was writing 15 years ago!" or "Stick to your old formula, Anne Rice". I loved the first four novels in the Vampire Chronicles, but Memnoch absolutely blew me away. I read the book, and it made more sense to me than probably anything I have ever read on organized religion. Sure, she could have "stuck to vampires", but she chose to expand, and I thought it was incredible. It fit the character of Lestat to a "t" -and who else would capture the interest of the devil? The book completely fulfilled me. I had heard, before I read it, that it would be the last book that she would write about Lestat, and I was sad. I considered begging and threatening her to never stop writing about him, but then I read the book, and I didn't need anything else. When I reached the end, and read the time, it was over for me. The story was completed, and though I have reread all of the novels in the Chronicles several times over, I hope that she doesn't tell us any more about Lestat. She took him to Heaven and Hell, and ripped the world apart while doing so. Rice writes about universal issues that she's always written about, that her vampires have always dwelled upon: if you just want a story about bloodsuckers, I wouldn't suggest reading this, but if you are open to more, Memnoch is an incredibly powerful book.
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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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Anne Rice entdeckt Christianity
Warum wuerde sich ein Vampir mit dem Elend der Menschen mitfuehlen? Das war auch so bei der Queen of the Damned, aber hier ist es noch heftiger. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 7 Monaten von E. Xenou veröffentlicht
A Vampire in Hell
Something else entirely...
For lovers of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, this must have come as something of a surprise, but to reject on the grounds of unfamiliarity seems a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. November 2003 von Hamilton Kent
Anfang gut - Ende gut - aber mittendrin?!
Ich habe die Vampire Chronicles soweit alle gelesen. Doch mit "Memnoch - the devil" habe ich mich bisher am schwersten getan. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Mai 2002 veröffentlicht
the devil's view
one never knows what'll be next in Anne Rice's novels. This time Lestat is taken on a journey with Memnoch, the devil himself. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Dezember 2001 von Andrea Maier
Nicht gerade leichter Lesestoff...
Als bekennender Anne Rice Fan muss ich sagen, dass dieses Buch von allen am schwersten zu lesen war. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Februar 2001 veröffentlicht
Poor, mediocre, moderate perhaps, but far from good.
A good enough novel from another author perhaps, but from Anne Rice? It feels as if she has straight jacketed herself in the mythic laws of both her own vampire history and those... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Juli 2000 von Duncan Kennedy
Very Entertaining.
I must say this is Anne Rice's best novel. It was very interesting to read that Lestat was afraid of Something or Someone for once! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Juli 2000 von Sarah
Interesting biblical view
I like this book. It wasn't extactly like the other ones, but it was very good.
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2000 von Jennifer Stenton
Strange and thought-compelling
At first I found this book hard to get into, but gradually I accepted what Anne Rice was trying to do and was then able to go along for the ride. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von James
My Favorite of the Vampire Chronicles
Memnoch the Devil is my favorite of the Vampire Chronicles because it mixes religion and the supernatural very well. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 2000 von K. Hewitt
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