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Summary: Armand
Review: Unclouded by what the mass is saying, I believe this is one of the best books I've ever read. Being that Armand was my favorite character in the first few vampire chronicles, I had to read this book. Armand explains his life to David, from Kiev to Venice, to Rome, to Paris, and finally to America. Some fans of Rice's Vampire Chronicles think that this is the most boring and terrible book in the series, but some might like it. I'd recommend it to someone who loves the character Armand, or enjoys the latter books in Rice's series, or someone like me who enjoyed every book in the series.The first few times I read it, I thought it was an amazingly beautiful written piece of literature, but after you've read it two or more times, it starts to become a bore. I have no wish to go back and read the entire book over again, I just skimmed through to the parts I enjoyed. Anne Rice tends to be a transcendent author, albeit at times some portions of her writing seem to lag on and on. Originally, I had given a five star rating, but I decided that it isn't that exciting of a book.
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Summary: When the plot got lost
Review: Perhaps one of the most enigmatic of Anne Rice's vampire community I was so looking forward to reading about Armand. Her characters have a way of being wholly believable and it was with great enthusiasm that I began this book, after all her makebelieve world is usually so vivd and consumes you so entirely. I was sorely disappointed with this book, although Anne Rice is known for her purple prose this book takes it to new heights of tedium. So consumed is she with the power of the pen the story gets lost and left behind early on in the book. This book is an exercise in endurance, you really don't care about the story after the first 50 or so pages you just become determined to see it through to the end. For any "fan" of the vampire chronicles it is a must read book, but it isn't a good book and definitely not one to return to again and again like an old and welcome friend.
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Summary: a little boring
Review: Thought I'm a Vampire Chronicles fan and Armand is my favorite vampire, I don't really like this book. Armand's story was already described in the other chronicles, it's just more details and the Armand's view of his story in this book. I myself like new and fresh story like the Body Thief, not the same story again and again, If Armand would be main character angain, I hope that will be a new story.
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Summary: Such a dark angel
Review: Armand, a complex man indeed. Beautiful, as are all of Anne's vampires. This story is a must read for anyone insterested in the "Chronicals".
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Summary: armand
Review: thought this was just as good as interview and never knew marius was such a dirty old man
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Summary: Why is this woman progressively becomming more perverted???!
Review: I only read it because I'm drawn to the series and I'd like some closure...but it just PISSES ME OFF to no end when I...a Black man from Brooklyn have to read about gay (explicitly gay) vampires! All I wanted to do was read a good story...but to get through it....you have to be subjected to disgusting filth...if you're heterosexual (that means "normal", as in you prefer the opposite sex)....it really screws with your head....GOODNESS!!! Can these vampires bite some women more often or fall in love with female vampires??!! And why the hell do their penises ("organ" as described by Anne Rice) have to be impotent (and why tell us?...repeatedly?) Does her husband have an erection problem? I mean, damn, she has a son, (who wishes he had some writing skill)...is her husband so horrible in bed that she wishes some woman would please her or something? She should stick to the story in terms of their power, the covens, and their struggles, not the homosexual behavior! In the first novel (Interview w/...) when vampires bit a man you merely shrugged and brushed it off...but now...ughhh! Whatever...this woman is alienating people and ruining an initially good idea. The rights to the characters should be snatched away and given to a stable author...
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Summary: Former Vampire Chronicle Fan
Review: I gave this book 1 star, because zero wasn't an option, however, it is my true rating. I was hooked from the first book when I was about 12. I have all first edision hard covers (and even an autographed first edition of Interview with the Vampire). That should tell you what a fan of the chronicles I have been. I re-read them again and again when I rediscovered there was a series again later in life. I've re-read them multiple times. That was until they started going slowly down hill beginning with Tale of the Body Thief (still a very worthy read), but this is, in my opinion, when they began to slip. Then Memnoch The Devil (another worthy read), but slipping just the same. Then Pandora (awful, is all I can say). But I held out hope--still. Then came the Vampire Armand. It truly took me about 3+ years to read it. I will never start a book without finishing it (unfortunately for me). AWFUL, BORING, A REAL SNORE! Though I have almost all of Anne Rice's books (many still to read) and many other very good reads. I have to just face it Anne's love and our love of all the vampires is gone. I cannot ever see myself giving another chronicle a try (and I was so holding out hope for a return some how of Claudia--and that might be the only thing that could get me to give it one last try--that is Claudia's return, not her life prior to turning to a live of the undead). Please Anne, either find your pasion which is our pasion of vampires being vampires (not their past lives and all the boring details of art and music and details of forein lands, blah, blah, blah). I don't read these books for history lessons. I read them for the story of vampires--their CURRENT tales of interests. Their past lives (which deals to much in their human lives) is when it just got boring. Please go back to current tales, as they live now. Not their human tales and how they came to be...or end it now before we all go into the fire, to escape our misery.
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Summary: I'm hooked!
Review: Another great installment in the vampire chronicles. Armand's story is gripping and well written. Keep them coming Anne..I'm addicted!
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Summary: Utterly unarticulated , and vacant!
Review: Weakly planned and reharsed, the story does not flow at all. Probably the author has a small story in the middle of the novel but not before or beyond . Very repititive and lean ,a total turn-off.
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Summary: Awesome novel
Review: As, you can see, I greatly admire the character of Armand. He is truly the number 2 vampire to me, after Lestat, but far in front of Louis, Marius, David, and especially ...Pandora. That was a book I did not enjoy. But anyway, this book gets the full 5 stars, especially for the outstanding ending!
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