When Anne Rice fans are asked which of her books they feel most passionate about — whether positively or negatively — the answer is almost invariable: Memnoch the Devil. Acting as a bit of a precursor to Rice’s Christian fiction novels of the mid-00s, this book is tonally out of step with the previo...
After writing the two best novels in her Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice puts out a dud in this fifth installment. In this novel, the Devil, Memnoch, recruits Rice’s vampire bad boy Lestat, to fight God. Perhaps the premise was too far reaching for an effective novel, but the novel had too much backst...
Memnoch the Devil takes Lestat on an extremely long tour of the past, creation, angels, evolution, the passion of Christ and more – because he has a job proposition for the Brat Prince Memnoch the Devil, also known as “the Bible according to Anne Rice” or “Anne Rice’s theological musings”. P...
Finishing this book was a chore. A sad realization considering how much I loved Anne Rice's previous books, but boy am I happy to be done with this one. My reading experience can be summarized the following way: Yay! Lestat!, ok I'm bored, holy mother of vodka this is dull, should I drink? maybe i...
Not as good as some of Rice's other works, but all in all, it is an interesting story. I liked how Rice depicted God as a flawed being not unlike ourselves; however, she kind of made him, for lack of a better word, a douchebag.
This is a book that makes you think. From Lesat's point of view we learn about heaven and hell in a whole new way. Is God truly good, is the devil truly evil?
Good, but the ending completely set me off. Lestat acts completely out of character. It's really more of a transition into Anne Rice's own, personal religious conversion. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who has fallen in love with Lestat's tortured character in previous books.
I suppose my love from this book comes from the fact that I tend to be fascinated with religious based lore, and I love when authors choose to take something and put a different spin on it. Anne Rice's style was wonderfully used in this book as Lucifer or Memnoch told his side of the story and allow...
“How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.” - LestatRe-read in March 2001
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