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  <title><![CDATA[Servant of the Bones]]></title>
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  <default-description>Her first book since  &lt;i&gt;Memnoch the Devil&lt;/i&gt;, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and  the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel,  Servant of the Bones.  He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible.  He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world.  There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This started out as a five-star book for me. Already after the first few pages, I was ready to give it the highest rating. I was immediately fascinated by the story, by the characters. I like stories that build on history, as long as they don’t get too long-winded about it, which this one didn’t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67601554">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was something I read for one of my book clubs. It's the story of Azriel, a demon/angel/spirit who is called forth from his preserved skeleton by whomever owns it, and must do that person's bidding. We see how he is turned from a regular person into the demon, hear a bit about the various master...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55384741">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 12 07:33:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like most of Anne Rice's later work, this book is written in a loose, breathy semisoftcore, purple overwrought style and is sprinkled with too many one sentence paragraphs. The premise of the story isn't bad and I didn't have a hard time getting though it but it does give one that creepy squirrely f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1878295">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 05 13:09:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never been so happy to finish a book in my life. Ok that's probably not true. In fact I think The School on Heart's Content Road was probably worse.  I only read this book because it is for one of my book clubs.  For this book club whoever is hosting gets to choose the book.  The person hosti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55047149">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes Ann Rice is just too frickin weird for me, but I liked this. I guess I don't know much about Hasidic Judaism, so I don't know how accurate her representation of that is, but I was fascinated, and I really liked the descriptions of ancient Babylon. I was also amazed and sort of shocked to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44213167">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Anne Rice book that I've read, so I can't say for sure if this is a typical Rice book or not. Either way, I'll give my impressions of it.<br/><br/>The book is written in first person, and therefore comes with the limitations of that type of narration. I didn't perticularly like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20723396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65071882">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story about Azrael in Babylon is beautiful, but I suppose Anne Rice is attempting to validate the Book of Enoch which is apochryphal by including a prophet named Enoch among the exiles in Babylon. The Enoch mentioned in the Old Testament is Methuselah's father from a much earlier generation. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65071882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Azriel, né à Babylone, est transformé en fantôme malfaisant, le serviteur des Ossements. <br/><br/>Il est appelé par des maîtres qui s'en servent comme d'un jouet pour faire le mal et semer la terreur pendant des siècles. <br/><br/>Au XXe s. à New York, il se retrouve projeté au milieu ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66298865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29769454">
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    <body><![CDATA[The basic idea of this story seemed to come out of left field: A charming, fairly spiritual Babylonian sacrifices himself in a beautiful ceremony for the sake of his people. He dies (very, VERY horribly), and becomes a powerful spirit in the control of whoever owns his gold-plated skeleton. It's qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29769454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51012212">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not being an Anne Rice fan, didn't know what to expect when I found this book at a book sale. However, the ancient Babylon setting and Judaism mythology behind the story line really drew me in. Very compelling storyline and one could develop a real connection with the 'bones' by the end of the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51012212">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the historical take of this book, and how it so vividly painted the picture of another time and place. I read it a long time ago, but will never forget the scene toward the end, when the main character is encrusted in gold, the center of the parade...very vivid imagery. I loved this one.]]></body>
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    <review id="27901947">
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    <body><![CDATA[The first 50 or so pages were a little slow, but then I was hooked and didn't want to put it down.  Definitely not a light read.  It's about a man in ancient middle east who ends up being used in a ceremony to replace a god--they paint his body with &quot;gold&quot; and let it harden to make him a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27901947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes you on a rich journey through the life and afterlife of the Azrael. It is a very well crafted world that paints the picture beautifully of what perils and beauty's await him in his path to become the servant of the bones.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting perspective of Babylonian times. A bit too long; could have ended 100 pages sooner. It served its purpose for me, though, since I needed to be entertained on the flight over to Japan.]]></body>
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    <review id="72633337">
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    <body><![CDATA[Gut geschrieben, spannende Handlung, aber so richtig fesseln konnte es mich nicht. Lag vielleicht auch an dem Hauptcharakter, mit dem man einfach nie so richtig warm werden konnte...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this one autographed at a signing in Little Rock, Arkansas.  I could barely speak as Anne signed it and had to go lay down on the floor between some bookshelves.  HA!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book when i was in high school.  It got packed away when I moved and never came back from hiding until about 3 years ago.  I finally picked the book back up and I started reading it like I had never sat it down.<br/><br/>For me it was hard to get through, but I think it is b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1969925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Admittedly, I didn't finish this book. I read 60 of 360 pages and found it more tortorously boring and overly descriptive. I think the book was laced with a sleep aid.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A departure from the Vampires and Witches books. A supernatural wonder that is so vivid, you can be made to believe that the Servant exists in the real world.]]></body>
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