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The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Author: Anne Rice

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780345360007 - ISBN-10: 0345360001
Publication Date: 5/6/1989
Pages: 448


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette

Book Description:
An archaeologist has just unearthed the find of his career, the tomb of Ramses II. The door to the tomb is lettered with a curse, the mummy of the king who claimed to be immortal lies shriveled inside. The archaeologist dies and the treasures are shipped to his daughter Julie in England, who finds that the mummy comes to life as a perfect man. Julie grows to love him and introduces him to modern life, including the museums that purport to reconstruct his time. He becomes disturbed and disgusted with the modern portrayal of his beloved Cleopatra. Ramses and Julie, her ex-fiance and his father Elliott in tow, travel to Egypt. There, Ramses is further upset by the tourist flavor given to his ancient civilization. In one of the museums, he recognizes an "unknown" mummified woman as his beloved Cleopatra. One night, he returns with the immortality elixir and raises her from the dead. But Cleopatra is not restored to her beautiful body or mind. She is a horrid monster, a walking corpse of rotting flesh and a disoriented mind that kills without mercy. Ramses abandons her, leaving her to Elliott, not realizing that he too is in peril. All in the party partake of the elixir, with Cleopatra and Ramses in the shadows.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Jennifer M. (medinaserpa) wrote on 2/25/2008...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This was a fantastic book. I have never been a fan of Anne Rice espically not her Vampire series but this book was great. I really wish that she would have made it a series.

Shauna P. wrote on 11/1/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Absolutely one of Anne Rice's best. This book has a little bit of everything for everyone; romance, suspense, historical. I read it in less than a week and then read it again a few months later.


Please Rate these Book Reviews

Alan M. wrote on 3/23/2007...


Not a true lover of Anne Rice but this is one great read. A real page turner and lots of fun.

Carla H. (carlamo) - Richmond, TX wrote on 1/25/2007...


Another entertaining Rice novel. Reads as if it were written to become a movie script.

Stephen P. (thelad48) wrote on 9/12/2006...


Not the vampires but just as good

Tami B. wrote on 7/16/2006...


Probably one of her best!!!

Christine G. (Cricket) wrote on 1/3/2006...


Interesting story and kept my attention enough, but not one of Anne Rice's best. Still a good read and quite enjoyable.

From the back of the book:
In her bestselling "Vampire Chronicles", Anne Rice created a world of haunting sensuality and seductive power-- "Interview with the Vampire", "The Vampire Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned" are novels unsurpassed for the hypnotic, erotic quality. Now Rice takes the theme she has always explored to such chilling effect--the interplay of the undead with their mortal brethren--and has fashioned it into an electrifying entertainmen.
Ramses the Great Lives....
but 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--for food, for wine, for women.
Reawakened in opulent Edwardian London, he becomes Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He is also the close companion of voluptuous, adventurous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites of their own to appease.
But with the pleasures Ramses enjoys with Julie cannot soothe him. Searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved Queen of Egypt, burn in his immortal soul. And though he is immortal, he is still all too human. His intense longing for his great love, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger...

Pauline F. (Pauline) wrote on 9/13/2005...


Oversized book

Karen H. (Redwitche) wrote on 6/23/2005...


We NEED a sequel, this book has a few crease marks, but in otherwise very good shape.

Ashley G. (Marigold) wrote on 5/30/2005...


I really liked this book and have read it about 3 times. Its romantic and it has a twist to the story. Ture its is different from her other books but well worth the read.

Jill J. (jilly) wrote on 5/11/2005...


I felt this was a bit of a twist from her traditional vampire novels, kind of slow moving, like many of her books, but worth the read if you are an Anne Rice fan.


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