![]() ![]() ![]() "I really wanted to bring really question? What did he do to become an adversary of God?" she asked. Like many people, she wants to know how a loving, caring God can allow so much suffering. The book delves deeply into Rice's own questions about faith and God and spirituality and is as close to a treatise on her own philosophy as any of the Vampire Chronicles, she said. In "Memnoch," Lestat - a 200-year-old hedonist with a matter-of-fact viciousness - meets Satan and God, both of whom try to convince him that their worldview is right. So Rice, who started the chronicles in 1976 with "Interview With the Vampire" and now has produced five books in the series, decided to send her wandering hero out with a huge, cosmically enormous, spiritually engulfing bang. "This time, Lestat told me this was the last one. ![]() "For 15 years this character's been leaning over my shoulder saying, Put me in the book, put me in the book,' " Rice said in an interview from her New York apartment. When novelist Anne Rice sat down to write "Memnoch the Devil," the latest chapter in her Vampire Chronicles, she knew it would be the last one. ![]()
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