My favorite of the Vampire Chronicles.

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	• Memnoch the Devil: The Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice Knopf, 1995 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 467 reviews view larger image
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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.

There are two sides to every story.

The Angel Hunter
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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Fabulous!

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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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-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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My favorite of the Vampire Chronicles.

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!!!

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In Anne Rice's extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed.

He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death.

We are in New York.  The city is blanketed in snow.  Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has.

While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is  confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known.

He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation.  He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory.

He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God.  And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve.

In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own.  In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us--into the realms of our own theology.

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