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The Mummy
by
Anne Rice
Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent 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. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memor...more
480 pages
Published
2004
by Arrow
(first published 1989)
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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
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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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...more
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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...more
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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 place everyone arou...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 place everyone arou...more
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Jan 01, 2008
Slayermel
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys Anne Rice or Fantasy
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 also because...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 also because...more
I give you the book the movie The Mummy was SUPPOSED to be based off of. In the end they butchered the story so much Anne Rice wouldn’t put her name on it. Which is a shame, because this book is (if not better) sexier than the movie.
A lot of reviews call it “vintage Anne Rice” and I couldn’t agree more. It gets back to the feel of Interview with the Vampire; darkly sexual with the most compelling plot. She’s seriously one of the best storytellers of all time.
A mummy rises, he falls in love, and...more
A lot of reviews call it “vintage Anne Rice” and I couldn’t agree more. It gets back to the feel of Interview with the Vampire; darkly sexual with the most compelling plot. She’s seriously one of the best storytellers of all time.
A mummy rises, he falls in love, and...more
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...more
First, I'm a middle-aged guy who does not read bodice-rippers as a rule. Perhaps "ever" is a better word. But I happen to love mummy fiction, be it in the form of a movie or a book. That was what prompted me to dive into Anne Rice's "The Mummy," which, prior to "The Da Vinci Code," was the worst book I could not put down. Perhaps anticipating the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies that came along several years later, this Mummy is not a shriveled, bandaged, mute zombie hit man, stumping around and stra...more
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 lectura amena y rápida. A...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 lectura amena y rápida. A...more
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 is clearly not...more
I read this book after reading Interview With the Vampire; this is clearly not...more
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Apr 24, 2011
Simona Bartolotta
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2 of 5 stars
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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.
Julie è come se non esistesse, una...more
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.
Julie è come se non esistesse, una...more
Feb 20, 2011
Indah Threez Lestari
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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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 perlu waktu lama untuk adaptasi, hanya den...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 perlu waktu lama untuk adaptasi, hanya den...more
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.
By the time Ramses and his modern love Julie return to Egypt, I wa...more
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.
By the time Ramses and his modern love Julie return to Egypt, I wa...more
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 history that go beyond le...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 history that go beyond le...more
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 remainder of the...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 remainder of the...more
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 when the major...more
The plot of this book is very stale, even a little disappointing. Part 1 is still sort of OK, but when the major...more
I was instantly swept up in the narrative. I wanted to be Julie and take this ancient figure on a tour of the world. Its like Tarzan and Jane in London! There so much innocence and discovery in the first half. There was also a darkly hidden sinister layer that continued to boil and bubble. I loved it!
The second part of the book was more suspenseful but also full of soft erotica sections. I was disappointed in the way Cleopatra was portrayed. It just felt too much like the Roman stereotype of her...more
The second part of the book was more suspenseful but also full of soft erotica sections. I was disappointed in the way Cleopatra was portrayed. It just felt too much like the Roman stereotype of her...more
I have to say that what I enjoyed most about this book was when I would say "I'm going to go read my book now. The Mummy. Or Ramses the Damned." Which was always said in my best scary horror announcer voice. I loved the first part of the book. I thought the second part of the book was incredibly boring and difficult to get through. I don't mean to spoil anything, and if you haven't read it and don't want to know, then stop reading now.... but I was especially disappointed by Henry's fate. It was...more
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I haven't read Anne Rice in forever and this book reminded me both why I love her and why I'm incredibly annoyed by her writing all at the same time. Anne Rice, IMO, is one of the best authors I've ever read. Her use of language and her descriptiveness really make her stand out among the rest. She has a way of taking a really cheesy story and telling it in a way that sounds lyrical and not ridiculous at all. But if you think about it, all her story lines are incredibly ridiculous! While the over...more
This is the immortal mummy story I've always been looking for -- a story from the point of view of the mummy itself. Anne Rice wrote this book long before the Brenden Fraser "The Mummy" movie came out, and I think that Rice's is the better story. (Though, I do like the other, I admit.)
Perhaps I like it because this story is more about the emotional turmoil of immortality. Reading as much teen literature as I do, the subject of immortality comes up quite a bit, and the older I get, the less desi...more
Perhaps I like it because this story is more about the emotional turmoil of immortality. Reading as much teen literature as I do, the subject of immortality comes up quite a bit, and the older I get, the less desi...more
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 of im...more
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, it is destroyed...more
Anne Rice's beautiful, lyrical writing is again present here. Unfortunately, it is destroyed...more
I picked this up at the library because I hadn't read it in twenty years and i was curious to read it again.
That was the wrong thing to do.
I read this as a teenager and maybe it had appealed to the romantic in me, but as a 41 year old, this book just started to annoy me!
I did love the first part, in Egypt...and all the mystery and tension around the discovery etc.....but when you get to the romance and the part where the mummy is alive and well and living inLondon...well, I just couldn't take...more
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...more
Jan 11, 2013
Lori McD
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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3.5 stars, maybe more
I liked this book a lot, so admittedly, the prejudicial rating is my own; I wasn't keen on the story direction or where it ended. I wasn't expecting a HEA - this isn't a full-fledged romance book. But I was surprised and disappointed in our main character, Ramses the Second, aka The Mummy.
I don't really want to get into spoilers here, so I'll just say that for as wise as this man is and for the number of years that he's lived, he didn't think too far ahead. I know, I know......more
I liked this book a lot, so admittedly, the prejudicial rating is my own; I wasn't keen on the story direction or where it ended. I wasn't expecting a HEA - this isn't a full-fledged romance book. But I was surprised and disappointed in our main character, Ramses the Second, aka The Mummy.
I don't really want to get into spoilers here, so I'll just say that for as wise as this man is and for the number of years that he's lived, he didn't think too far ahead. I know, I know......more
I went back and forth on whether I liked this or not. First, let me be honest and say I have not read an Anne Rice book since college. ( A few years ago!) Next, this was not as graphic as I remember, thank goodness.
The development of Ramses' character was fine as it went,but I was hoping for more. Like the book ended before we really got to know all of him.
Spoiler - got rid of an annoying character before he *really* got on my nerves. He didn't do much for the story anyway.
What I was waiting for...more
The development of Ramses' character was fine as it went,but I was hoping for more. Like the book ended before we really got to know all of him.
Spoiler - got rid of an annoying character before he *really* got on my nerves. He didn't do much for the story anyway.
What I was waiting for...more
This has to be the worst book by Anne Rice, except of course the "Sleeping Beauty" series, which don't count as books. I can't even believe she wrote it!
Had to struggle to get through every page and I don't think I ever considered stopping reading a book after I started as seriously as I did for this one.
For the entire first part, I was just repeating in my mind that miss Rice can kindly go on an extended vacation to Hell for writing this, which also works now, since I heard she decided she beli...more
Had to struggle to get through every page and I don't think I ever considered stopping reading a book after I started as seriously as I did for this one.
For the entire first part, I was just repeating in my mind that miss Rice can kindly go on an extended vacation to Hell for writing this, which also works now, since I heard she decided she beli...more
This is a book I have re-read several times. I am always fascinated by the premise of someone awakening in a different time period. Is it harder to jump forward or to go backwards?
I am enamored of all things Egypt and this story evokes such a romantic feel for it. It makes me long to see things in the past and travel on a great liner (first class, of course!).
There is the magical, mystical element that Anne Rice is so capable of threading in the story. Sometimes it is so subtle, you forget that...more
I am enamored of all things Egypt and this story evokes such a romantic feel for it. It makes me long to see things in the past and travel on a great liner (first class, of course!).
There is the magical, mystical element that Anne Rice is so capable of threading in the story. Sometimes it is so subtle, you forget that...more
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.
If you like supernatural romance, this is the novel...more
If you like supernatural romance, this is the novel...more
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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold near...more
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