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Mar 30, 2008
Gina
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Loved this book...couldn't put it down once I started it. I really wish she would have done a series out of this story.
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Jul 31, 2011
Marianne
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Before I rant, a little background: I’ve always enjoyed horror stories, in particular, vampire and mummy stories. As a young teen my favorite author was H.P. Lovecraft, and one of my most favorite horror stories was The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker which is a “mummy” story. Starting in 1984 I began reading what came to be known as “The Vampire Chronicles” by Anne Rice. The first book, Interview With the Vampire, was sensuous and atmospheric and rewrote traditional vampire mythology. Intri
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Feb 21, 2009
Katie
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Can't believe it took me so long to read this one. There are only one or two of Rice's books that I haven't liked, but this one was classic Rice. She captures the historical mood perfectly, the grandeur and romance and mystery, the eroticism that is somehow woven into every scene, without being trite or distracting. Just when I think I know how she's going to resolve things, she goes in a completely different -- yet perfectly fitting and satisfying -- direction. There are a lot of themes in this
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Sep 10, 2008
LJ
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The Mummy: Ramses the Damned - VG
Anne Rice - Standalone
Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will More...
Anne Rice - Standalone
Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will More...
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Jan 01, 2008
Slayermel
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This is the second time I have read this book, as the last time was years ago. The story is different then any mummy tale I have seen to date. It deals more so with immortality then raising the dead, and the emotional turmoil that accompanies being immortal.
The Story moves quickly and the characters are very likeable. The reason I only gave the book four stars is because three quarters of the way through the book, I found the characters where not behaving quite like themselves and a More...
The Story moves quickly and the characters are very likeable. The reason I only gave the book four stars is because three quarters of the way through the book, I found the characters where not behaving quite like themselves and a More...
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Mar 18, 2009
Kaila
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I will admit that I approached this book with a great deal of trepidation after being warned about Anne Rice's writing style but I am happy to say that I enjoyed it much more than I thought would be possible. As far as the writing style, I enjoyed the detail included in the novel and found the two main characters endearing. I was afraid that her style was going to be comparable to Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter with whole paragraphs devoted to one sentence and instead found that she i
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Aug 09, 2011
Carles
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Leido... Y la verdad es que me esperaba más y solamente le doy un aprobado...
La novela aunque empieza de forma prometedora enseguida la historia se estanca y se vuelva lenta y monótoma. No es hasta pasada la página 300 (mi edición de bolsillo tiene 541 págs.) que la cosa se anima un poco, pues la acción y la tensión van in crescendo conforme llega el final. El desenlace no está mal: es abierto y lógico aunque para mi gusto, poco singular...
El estilo de Anne Rice hace la l More...
La novela aunque empieza de forma prometedora enseguida la historia se estanca y se vuelva lenta y monótoma. No es hasta pasada la página 300 (mi edición de bolsillo tiene 541 págs.) que la cosa se anima un poco, pues la acción y la tensión van in crescendo conforme llega el final. El desenlace no está mal: es abierto y lógico aunque para mi gusto, poco singular...
El estilo de Anne Rice hace la l More...
Jul 31, 2011
Sheila
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A British archeologist in early 1900's Egypt uncovers a mummy's sarcophagus covered with all manner of dire warnings about disturbing the occupant. Undeterred, the mummy is removed; but instead of the mummy claiming vengeance on anyone, someone else murders the archeologist. The mummy is sent back to England to the home of the archeologist's wealthy daughter for display in her home, and the story takes off from there.
I read this book after reading Interview With the Vampire; this More...
I read this book after reading Interview With the Vampire; this More...
Apr 24, 2011
Simona
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La 'mummia' di un romanzo, forse.
Da premettere che la prima parte mi era piaciuta: l'idea di partenza è affascinante. Già dopo primi capitoli però, l'autrice inizia a perdersi in assurde ripetizioni, diventa incoerente, scostante, tutta la storia acquista un'inverosimiglianza quasi inaccettabile. Ogni singolo sviluppo si basa sul presupposto che tutti i personaggi, chi più chi meno (ma io sarei propensa per il più), siano affetti da una acuta forma di demenza.
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Da premettere che la prima parte mi era piaciuta: l'idea di partenza è affascinante. Già dopo primi capitoli però, l'autrice inizia a perdersi in assurde ripetizioni, diventa incoerente, scostante, tutta la storia acquista un'inverosimiglianza quasi inaccettabile. Ogni singolo sviluppo si basa sul presupposto che tutti i personaggi, chi più chi meno (ma io sarei propensa per il più), siano affetti da una acuta forma di demenza.
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Feb 20, 2011
Indah "Threez"
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198th - 2011
I love this book.
Lupakan The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty yang mengerikan itu, buku ini mengembalikan penilaianku pada Anne Rice.
Tokoh utamanya, Ramses, sang Firaun yang terkenal itu, membuatku terpesona. Kombinasi antara ketampanan, kekuatan dan kecerdasan memang formula hero sepanjang masa...
Konon, rata-rata manusia hanya menggunakan 10% kemampuan otaknya, tapi hidup abadi bisa memaksimalkan kinerja otak. Begitu bangun di abad 20, ia tidak pe More...
I love this book.
Lupakan The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty yang mengerikan itu, buku ini mengembalikan penilaianku pada Anne Rice.
Tokoh utamanya, Ramses, sang Firaun yang terkenal itu, membuatku terpesona. Kombinasi antara ketampanan, kekuatan dan kecerdasan memang formula hero sepanjang masa...
Konon, rata-rata manusia hanya menggunakan 10% kemampuan otaknya, tapi hidup abadi bisa memaksimalkan kinerja otak. Begitu bangun di abad 20, ia tidak pe More...
Jan 13, 2011
J.C.
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This was a book highly recommended. It’s also the first Anne Rice I’ve ever read.
After finishing this novel, I’m don’t feel it’s representative of her best work.
Not that it’s that bad. The beginning popped for me and I was thoroughly engrossed in the story and characters. Bascially, this is a love story between a mummy brought to live and the daughter of the man who freed him from his tomb.
Sounds…unique. And it is. But to a point.
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After finishing this novel, I’m don’t feel it’s representative of her best work.
Not that it’s that bad. The beginning popped for me and I was thoroughly engrossed in the story and characters. Bascially, this is a love story between a mummy brought to live and the daughter of the man who freed him from his tomb.
Sounds…unique. And it is. But to a point.
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Jan 13, 2011
Austin
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Anne Rice has a thing for immortality. In the Vampire Chronicles (of which I've read the first 3 books) she symbolically explores a detachment from God through her characters, a cast of vampires.
In "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned" she also deals with immortality. However, this book isn't concerned with spirituality. Instead her characters are immortal because it allows her to explore the beauty of the past. Ramses II, Cleopatra, Mark Antony - These are all characters of h More...
In "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned" she also deals with immortality. However, this book isn't concerned with spirituality. Instead her characters are immortal because it allows her to explore the beauty of the past. Ramses II, Cleopatra, Mark Antony - These are all characters of h More...
Nov 23, 2009
Elizabeth
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I picked up this book because I’d read Interview With A Vampire and wasn’t that fussed. I thought I’d give Anne Rice a second chance by picking something completely unrelated.
Julie Stratford’s archaeologist father uncovers the tomb of Ramses the Great, a pharaoh said to be immortal. The archaeologist is promptly murdered and the mummy shipped to Julie in early 20th Century England. Ramses revives in time to save Julie from being similarly murdered and the pair fall in love. The remaind More...
Julie Stratford’s archaeologist father uncovers the tomb of Ramses the Great, a pharaoh said to be immortal. The archaeologist is promptly murdered and the mummy shipped to Julie in early 20th Century England. Ramses revives in time to save Julie from being similarly murdered and the pair fall in love. The remaind More...
Oct 02, 2009
Adastra
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A rich old archaeologist digs up the mummy of Ramses the Third, a former great king of Egypt and rumored immortal. Despite all the written warnings in the tomb, the archeologist takes the mummy to his home in England, where slowly but surely Ramses awakens from his 2000 year slumber. The inevitable happens as he falls in love with the archaeologists daughter, and eventually screws up.
The plot of this book is very stale, even a little disappointing. Part 1 is still sort of OK, but whe More...
The plot of this book is very stale, even a little disappointing. Part 1 is still sort of OK, but whe More...
Nov 15, 2010
Kerry
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Aug 09, 2011
Ramses.. my tall dark and handsome prince! I am an Anne Rice fan and adore all her characters but she broke the mold with Ramses! Again she visits the old Egyptian stories and brings the past to life with her tale! I can picture the archeological digs, the suspense and forbidden finds. It makes me what to comb the desert myself in hopes to find the man of my dreams hidden away for centuries! I love the passion and love/lust Anne brings through in this book. I also really like the new breed
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Nov 03, 2011
Amanda
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Julie Stratford’s father is a retired shipping mogul who now spends his time as an archaeologist in Egypt. He uncovers a tomb that claims to be that of Ramses the Damned, even though his tomb was already found. Everything in the tomb is written in hieroglyphs, Latin, and Greek, and the mummy is accompanied by scrolls claiming that Ramses is immortal, was a lover of Cleopatra, and can and will rise again.
Anne Rice's beautiful, lyrical writing is again present here. Unfortunately, i More...
Anne Rice's beautiful, lyrical writing is again present here. Unfortunately, i More...
Feb 20, 2011
Bella
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I read this book in 2004 during the summer after I had dropped out of college.At that time I had no idea who Anne Rice was or that I was reading one of the awsomest books ever. I knew of course that it was an awsome book. Not very long ago I ordered this book through www.bookmooch.com an international site for those that want to excange their books with other books. I had no idea that the book I had read back in 2004 and the book I ordered was the same book. This is one of my favourite books eve
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Jul 01, 2011
Madelene
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This is a romantic novel. Not my favourite genre. But, it is also a historical one, and that I love. Rice takes the myth of Ramses and puts her own twist on it. Ramses, who is immortal, wakes up in England in the early 20th century. He meets a girl, and they fall in love. They travel to Egypt together, where Ramses sees Cleopatra's corpse in a museum, his old love. He realises that he misses her, and is now torn between his new love and his old.
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Jun 09, 2011
Willowfaerie
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This is actually my favorite Anne Rice book. It definitely has Anne’s trademark gothic prose, but it’s not excessive. There are touches of the macabre that are dark and disturbing. This hideous idea that Rames cannot die no matter what, is a grim thought. No rest for the wicked I suppose. LOL
I also really liked the character of Rames. He wasn’t the typical, feminized, androgynous guy, like so many of Anne’s male characters. I wish Anne had continued this series, but she didn’ More...
I also really liked the character of Rames. He wasn’t the typical, feminized, androgynous guy, like so many of Anne’s male characters. I wish Anne had continued this series, but she didn’ More...
Sep 01, 2010
Munki
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I was stuck in a library waiting and had nothing to read. I picked this up thinking 'Ancient Egypt, the undead, how can it be bad?' without looking at the author.
After first few pages I checked. Oh dear.
I really do not like Anne Rice.
It was in reading this book for a few hours stuck in a library and continuing out of an awful sense of self harm that I realised that Anne Rice wants to be immortal. She doesn't care how she manages to do it, she wants to be un More...
After first few pages I checked. Oh dear.
I really do not like Anne Rice.
It was in reading this book for a few hours stuck in a library and continuing out of an awful sense of self harm that I realised that Anne Rice wants to be immortal. She doesn't care how she manages to do it, she wants to be un More...
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Dec 11, 2011
Kyra
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This was the book that taught me to love reading.
I read it at least once every year, and I still love it just as much ever time.
I find the characters endearing and dreamy. I love idea of attainable immortality, and the question of "What will you do with it?"
Cleopatra may be my favorite character. She is so dangerous at first and so unstable. I definitely enjoyed every page that she was on.
I wish that Anne Rice would have written a sequel to it, as the book leaves More...
I read it at least once every year, and I still love it just as much ever time.
I find the characters endearing and dreamy. I love idea of attainable immortality, and the question of "What will you do with it?"
Cleopatra may be my favorite character. She is so dangerous at first and so unstable. I definitely enjoyed every page that she was on.
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Aug 12, 2010
Linda
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Loved Loved Loved the characters in this book, I still re-read it occassionally. I loved the very prorper English daughter and the naught mummy whose dialogue is seemless and fun. Loved that she had fun with this book and did not try to make it a creepy mummy gets even kind of story. Enjoyed RAMES so much, I would have a cup of wine with him and listen to his stoies, ahh to move through the ages with all the time in the world to read, study and lean the ultimate fantasy (of course that he was
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Jun 30, 2011
Daniel
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Anne Rice writes another classic tale. This is great book bringing back to life the two great ancient egyptian mummies Rasmes and Cleopatra. Anne Rice makes you think that you are back in the time that cleopatra has reigned.
As egyptologists uncover Ramses the Great's tomb; late at night the dead mummy rises and lives. He drank the elixir which makes him immortal. He meets up with one of the egyptologists Julie who he ends up falling in love with at the end of the book. Ramses goes ba More...
As egyptologists uncover Ramses the Great's tomb; late at night the dead mummy rises and lives. He drank the elixir which makes him immortal. He meets up with one of the egyptologists Julie who he ends up falling in love with at the end of the book. Ramses goes ba More...
Oct 31, 2011
Silver
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I was really looking forward to reading this book becasue I love Anne Rice, and I think she revolutionized the vampire, and I think that mummies are very underappreciated monsters. They are not as sexy as vampires and werewolves, and thus are often neglected, but I myself am a fan of the mummy so I was really excited to read an Anne Rice book about mummies, but I have to say in the end I was left a bit disappointed.
There were some things of which I did rather enjoy in reading. Ramse More...
There were some things of which I did rather enjoy in reading. Ramse More...
Apr 14, 2011
Mckinley
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Ramses is soooo hot! My favorite of her books.
I have been a sucker for Anne Rice novels since I read Interview with a Vampire oh so many years ago. Sure I've enjoyed some of them more than others. And after awhile they get to seem a lot alike. So maybe it's not so very surprising that my favorite of her stories in NOT one of the vampire tales but the Mummy. First off Ramses is so appealingly discribed. (I had to search for a cover without a picture of him on it. The first book cover More...
I have been a sucker for Anne Rice novels since I read Interview with a Vampire oh so many years ago. Sure I've enjoyed some of them more than others. And after awhile they get to seem a lot alike. So maybe it's not so very surprising that my favorite of her stories in NOT one of the vampire tales but the Mummy. First off Ramses is so appealingly discribed. (I had to search for a cover without a picture of him on it. The first book cover More...
Dec 08, 2011
Deni
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I just want to say..dear God I love this book. This has to be one of my most favorite, fun, modern reads. I was cleaning/re-organizing my bookshelves a few weeks back and discovered that I still owned a copy. I hadn't read it for a long while, maybe ten or so years. So, being void of anything to read, I picked up and jumped in for the fourth time.
I completed the book within 2 days, (I have 3 kids, dedicated reading time…not so easy ;) and once again realized just how much I love this More...
I completed the book within 2 days, (I have 3 kids, dedicated reading time…not so easy ;) and once again realized just how much I love this More...
Jul 31, 2011
Harmonybites
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A friend of mine recommended this book to me, telling me that of all of the many Anne Rice books she had read, this one was her favorite, even over the vampire books. Besides this book, the only other book by Rice I've read is Interview with the Vampire, and I think in a lot of ways that is the more impressive book. Interview with the Vampire had its uneven and downright creepy aspects. But it also had a take on vampires that feels original to me even decades after it was published and having re
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Mar 21, 2010
Danny
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This might have been another series like her Vampire books or Mayfair Witches series, but the author seems to have abandoned this storyline. I wish she hadn't, It was one of the more interesting stories from Anne Rice. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed the first few books of the two previous series I mentioned, but Anne's innate weirdness disintegrate much of the coherence and character of both series. This novel is a great start, as always her style and attention to detail make the story. An
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Mar 04, 2010
Rachel
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I'd found Servant of the Bones in my university library and had enjoyed it greatly, so I thought I'd let Anne Rice entertain me again with a book about one of my greatest interests, Egypt. She didn't.
Because of the settings and locations--early 1900s London and Egypt--and the characters--a murdered British archeologist and the main character, his Edwardian daughter--I kept thinking (or hoping) I was reading an Elizabeth Peters novel. But I every time I thought it, I was reminded that More...
Because of the settings and locations--early 1900s London and Egypt--and the characters--a murdered British archeologist and the main character, his Edwardian daughter--I kept thinking (or hoping) I was reading an Elizabeth Peters novel. But I every time I thought it, I was reminded that More...
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