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Memnoch the Devil

The Vampire Chronicles 5

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Memnoch the Devil

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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In this terrifying novel from the phenomenally successful Anne Rice, the illustrious vampire Lestat makes a Faustian pact with devil.

Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch, this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space and time, offering an alternative and personalised account of the Bible, exploring the events which shaped our world.

Their journey comes to an apocalyptic conclusion in hell, from which Lestat returns frail and broken. The experience has shattered his perceptions of the known universe, but can you ever trust the devil?

©2016 Anne Rice (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks Classics Fantasy Horror Scary Fiction Paranormal
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So of course I loved it! I truly miss having the time to physically read her books, but this narrator makes me feel like the world of Lestat is coming to life just as it did when I read the book in the physical sense...

It is highly religion orientated, as I've seen described in some more scathing reviews, but if you read the blurb, it clearly states this premise.
Spoilers?: Lestat ends up contemplating Christian religion in such a way that those narratives almost don't feel like religious ones at the end of day, despite their clear reference to biblical events.

It's an idea on religion, and so well spoken one tends to get sucked in even if we aren't religious, if only we stop looking at it that way?

To add my own Lestat-esque touch to this review with a personally poignant and all together bohemian memory- after reading this book as a high school aged girl in a Catholic boarding school, I felt the truth of this fictional philosophy so deeply I ended up in weekend detention due to my elicited papers in Religious Studies!

It's a kind of personal delve into the personal philosophy of a person experiencing one particular religion. That 'person' also happens to be the Vampire Lestat!

Huge Anne Rice Fan...

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Wow. Anne Rice really went to a new level with this one. Having a break.

This is heavier than the previous books.

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It was rather different to how I remembered it from reading it maybe 20 odd years ago. Back then it was the first book I read of Anne Rice, from that moment on I was hooked! Like always great performance by Author and Narrator!

Satisfied I have revisited this one

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Good story , would've liked Lastat to question god abit more ending abit vague.

Well makes more sense than the bible

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Did Raglan James steal Anne Rice’s body to knock out this existential crisis on a typewriter? It seems the only logical explanation.
Nothing wrong with Simon Vance’s performance, but I do think both he and I deserve an award for getting all the way to the end!

A departure from form

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