It really is just one long exposition on what the Bible could mean or a spin on it or on the nature of god. An info-dump that I cannot even imagine having even the slightest relevance to the series.

ONE LONG INFODUMP! One horrendously long, unbelievably unnecessary info-dump. There’s something tucked at the end (a teeny tiny something). Oh there’s something tucked at the beginning. For a story or a plot to happen, well, things have to happen. What it isn’t, is much of a story or a plot. Perhaps even “Memnoch lectures you endlessly while Lestat practices his melodrama”. Memnoch the Devil, also known as “the Bible according to Anne Rice” or “Anne Rice’s theological musings”. 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.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 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. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history. 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. It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. Lestat is also growing fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's not a fraud. 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. The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial books.

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