The Mummy or Ramses the Damned: A Novel

Anne Rice

Mar 2011 · Sold by Ballantine Books

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ramses the Great returns in this “darkly magical” (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice

“The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Ramses the Great lives!

But having drunk the elixer of live, 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 also becomes 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 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 longings 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. . . .

Ratings and reviews

The Original Mummy. For those that don't know this is what Brandon Frasier's "The Mummy" was based on and while there are definitely some similarities, the book is almost COMPLETELY different. For one, there is no Rock O'Connell (Brandon Frasier) there is no Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) there is no Scorpion King (The Rock) and there is no Queen of England. All jokes aside, seriously the characters in the movie are NOT in the book. It's not necessarily a bad thing but make sure you go into this book with a much lower expectation than the bar the movie sets. However many of the characters in the book are very similar to the movies especially Julie who is basically Evelyn from the 1999 film. While Evelyn is most certainly a stronger more well flushed out character Julie definitely has her moments in the book that by far make her the best thing about it. The first 15 chapters are by far the best while after that it is a slow down hill descend in long boring dialogue and pointless love scenes.

Enjoyed the book , however the ending sucked. What an anti-climax. Almost seemed like she ran out of paper. Very disappointing.

This book is almost unreadable. Throwing in the towel 122 pages in. I've never read an Anne Rice book before but based on this one I have to figure her target audience is teenage girls.

About the author

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.