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Summary: Once again, Anne Rice leaves her readers thirsty for more.
Review: Anne Rice has meet all preset notions about herbooks with 'Armand' and surpassed them! 'Armand' was breathtaking and left me on the edge of my seat through the entire book. Anne Rice seems to entrance you with descriptions, and 'Armand' is no exception. I await the release of her next novel, hoping to be as riveted as I was by this one.
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Summary: Bad Book
Review: This book was a disappointment. Couldn't help feeling Ms. Rice had a deadline to meet. I found little character develpment, even less exploration of the "world of vampires" Anne Rice created with such richness with her previous Chronicles...I found the (seemingly) preoccupation with homosexual sex both mechanically written and generally uninterestingly, adding nothing but "filler". After the richness of "Pandora," this was one paultry sequel... Morgan
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Summary: Armand falls to the mainstream
Review: Let me assure you that in the past, I have delighted in the works of Anne Rice. I have enjoyed her style, imagery and character development. It is for this reason, I am surprisingly saddened by the lack of imagination brought forth to us in this edition of the Vampire Chronicles. It is my feeling that Armand has become a character of the 90's and not one of those originally introduced and developed in Interview with the Vampire. He lacks the historic flare,charisma and hunter instinct of his brothers and sisters. This book lacks a true plot structure that the others had while at the same time developing the character history. I was waiting for a new development that never materialized. Armand, the novel, is more of a history lesson on geography, economics, fashion, and politics than a book about one of the most powerful vampires in Anne Rice's world. The fear, love, passion, eroticism and terror...elements that kept me from even thinking of placing the other books down are evidently missing from this novel. If it is true that these characters speak to Mrs. Rice while she writes their words, this time, she should have tuned the voices out. But can we expect "The Vampire Lestat or Interview with the Vampire" every time??
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Summary: Anne Rice Does It Again
Review: In yet another intense tale of the supernatural Anne Rice brings you to feel both sympathy and love for this beautiful and lonely monster...Read It..It is well worth the time...
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Summary: One of Ann Rice's best books
Review: This book contains much more raw sex than previous books. It is less flowery than Pandora with more action. She has managed to make Armand a more sympathetic character and tied things together nicely. This one makes you want to re-read all the others including "Memnoch" which I did not like when I read it the first time. Ms. Rice has a way of making the unspeakable and repungent sensual and acceptable and even desirable. I was never able to see Armand as a 17 year old, especially after seeing Interview with the Vampire, but this book allows you to see him as a young man, innocent and nieve. Unlike the "Body Thief" which is enjoyable without having read the other Vampire Chronicles, you should have at least read Lestat and Queen of the Damed to get the full effect from "Armand". Ann Rice give the Vampires in Armand new & interesting insights and powers they did not previoulsy have. In this book the humans are not always victums but caretakes of the Vampires as well. I can't wait for the next one.
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Summary: YAY!
Review: I dont want to take up a huge space here, so I'll just say how pleased I was with this novel. Im not going to say it was 'Better' than this novel or that. Armand stands alone as its own novel, with its own story and its own voice. I think that Rice captures our attention throughout the book, and brings us an interesting character with an interesting story. Some parts were a little *blah*, but overall any Anne Rice fan should find this an enjoyable read.
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Summary: Why I won't read this one (yet)
Review: Violin was HORRIBLE. Pandora was weak. I loved all her pre-Memnoch stuff: vampires, witches. BUT... Very disappointed lately, so I will not shell out for hardback. Will check reviews here (sorry this isn't quite a review of this book, but...) Could have avoided Violin if only I'd checked here first. Gag!
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Summary: I love ANNE RICE!!
Review: I just started reading the vampire chronicles this summer, and I completely fell in love with all the books. The Vampire Armand is no exception. Even though my favorite character, by far, is Lestat, I still enjoyed reading about Armand. Although people who have read the vampire chronicles knew about Armand before the book, Anne Rice brings more depth and story twists to this tragic character.
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Summary: Been there, done that...
Review: This woman isn't beating a dead horse...she's nuking it!!! Stick a fork in it, Anne, it's done!! The book is just more of her purple prose, homoeroticism (Marius would simply be a pederast if he weren't a vampire), and overwrought religious imagery. Oh, yes, and that revisionism (Armand didn't order Claudia killed, you see, but he did do icky experiments on her). I gave up trying to read the whole crap and just skimmed through it. I still think "Interview with the Vampire" was the best of the bunch. I guess if the franchise keeps selling, Annie will keep churning them out!
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Summary: A massively problematic work
Review: Through most of this novel, I figured on my review being two stars. It wasn't abysmally bad, but rather failed to justify its own existence - it didn't tell anything worth saying. Rice fails to find an original or compelling voice for Armand, and the plot is largely dull repitition of what we learned in The Vampire Lestat. It was the Claudia sequence which initially made me go down to one star. It was stupid, pointless, and incredibly ill-advised. It warps out of nowhere, unwelcome, and leaves without even being satisfying! What was Rice thinking? That he readers wanted to learn that garbage? The ending third of the book, although Sybelle and Benji are dull characters, was better handled since it provided Armand an interesting dilemma, so it's two stars overall. But still, a great disappointment.
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