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Loading... Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, Book 5) (original 1995; edition 1995)by Anne Rice
Work detailsMemnoch the Devil by Anne Rice (1995)
Thank God!!!!! I made it through this book! (  ) Dbookwhore | Mar 30, 2013 |  VOTO: 9Sinceramente mi aspettavo una storia diversa. Ma anche questa va benissimo! Attraverso Memnoch ci vengono svelati molti "segreti" e molti "misteri". Affascinante (come al solito...) (  ) Malla-kun | Sep 22, 2012 | In the late 80s, I was a big an of Anne Rice. She wrote two of my favorite novels--The Vampire Lestat and The Witching Hour--and others that were just great, fun reads like Queen of the Damned and The Mummy. Then something happened in the early 90s. The Tale of the Body Thief was the first indication of a problem. Then Lasher and Taltos were so bad that I just stopped reading her books altogether. Over the next 20 years, the only one I picked up was Pandora, which was OK but not good enough to rekindle my relationship with Rice's work. Then last month, I saw Memnoch the Devil in a thrift store for a dollar and decided I would give it a try since it was the next book in the Vampire Chronicles from where I left off with Tale of the Body Thief. What a frustrating read. The first half of the book is actually pretty good. Interesting characters, settings and plot points are introduced. Everything is moving along and quite promising. Then at the midway point, the whole thing shifts to a self-indulgent mess when Lestat basically leaves the entire story set up in the first half and goes off with Memnoch on a tour of heaven and hell with just endless boring monologues about creation, the Passion of Christ, God, angels.... For over 120 pages, Lestat basically has little to do or say. The ending is just totally bizarre. I just don't know what was going on with Rice in the 90s or whether the Vampire Chronicles series ever gets back on its feet. But unless you're a hardcore Rice fan, avoid this one. ( ) HenryG | Jul 24, 2012 | The best of the Vampire Chronicles. Provocative and if you are of the Christian faith you might find it scandalous and at time blasphemous. (  ) talksupe.blogspot | Oct 24, 2011 | tamaranth | Oct 1, 2011 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inThe Vampire Chronicles (complete) by Anne Rice 3 Book Set by Anne Rice~Lasher/Memnoch the Devil/The Witching Hour by Anne Rice 9 Book Collection of Anne Rice: The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Interview With The Vampire, Memnoch by Anne Rice THE Vampire Chronicles - 5 Titles - Interview with the Vampire - The Vampire Lestat - The Queen of the Damned - The Tale by Anne Rice LASHER/CRY TO HEAVEN/PANDORA/THE FEAST OF ALL THE SAINTS/THE MUMMY/MENNOCH THE DEVIL/THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF/TALTOS/SERVANT OF THE BONES (ANN RICE NOVELS) by Anne Rice Vittorio The Vampire, The Vampire Lastat, Interview with The Vampire, The Vampire Armand, Queen of the Damned, Merrick, The Witching Hour, Blood Canticle, The Mummy, Memnoch the Devil, Taltos (11 Books by Ann Rice) by Anne Rice First 6 Titles in the Vampire Chronicles Interview with a Vampire - The Vampire Lestat - The Queen of the Damned - The Tale of the Body Thief - Memnoch the Devil - The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice Anne Rice 3 Pack- The Tale of the Body Thief / Memnoch the Devil / The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, 4, 5 & 6) by Anne Rice
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0345409671, Mass Market Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:29:17 -0500) In Anne Rice's extraordinary fifth novel of "The Vampire Chronicles", irresistible antihero Lestat encounters his most dangerous adversary--the mysterious being Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Ushered through the realms of Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, Lestat must finally decide if he can believe in the Devil or God--and which, if either, he will serve.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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