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Summary: Bored me to death.
Review: I finished this book because I paid for it. Honestly, it bored me to death. If it got any worse, I may have slipped into a coma.
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Summary: Confusing, Next to "Feast of all Saints" her worst
Review: I found this book confusing to follow. Most of her work is very discriptive to an Extreme but this was farther form her best then her worst.
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Summary: the best book I have read yet
Review: This book is a must for music lovers, even though it was concentrating on the violin music, and I have a passion for piano music, the writers passion for the music came across brilliantly. Somehow, the story twice made me cry, something a book has never done before, I really felt as though I was one of the characters, more involved in the story than I have been with any other book. Its just a shame it had to end and I was expecting more in the ending, I guess I wanted it to never end.
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Summary: Avoid if you are prone to Migraines
Review: What can you say when a favorite author writes a truly souring book...? Didn't even finish it..therefore I treated it as a ghost and it disappeared!
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Summary: Nightmarish
Review: I have a repeating nightmare of mine, in which I go through the world, not being able to see anything but a blury outline of the places and people I see. Highly annoying and distressing. A dream I try to wake up from as soon as possible. And that was how it was reading this book, the characters are but a blur of the usual Anne Rice characters who are rich and somewhat easy accessable. I just didnt wake up in time to save myself from the boredom and misery of this book. Another thing that hindered this book was the clumsy and REPEATING metaphores. Without these my guess would be that the book had only been of about 300 pages instead of the 372 pages of my version.And though I think it is no fault of Anne Rice's the back of my book (published by The Ballantine Publishing Group, ISBN 0-345-42446-8) reads this: "This big, luscious novel carries us from nineteenth-century Vienna to present-day New Orleans and Rio de Janerio as it tells the story of three charismatic figures bound together by their obsession with music. One is an exquisite young woman who dreams of becoming a great msician. One is a violinist, the ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who preys upon the woman - using his musical genius to enchant, command, and minipulate her and draw her into his spectral realms. The third in this triumvirate - is the crank shade of Ludwig von Beethoven. A fabulous trio. A seductively opulent world. An amalgam of the eerie and the romantic that could only come from Anne Rice at her inimitable best. " The main characther Triana who in the back is discribed as an exquisite young woman is in her fifties, and is discribed to be at least plumb. The ghost of Ludwig von Beethoven only appears a few times and is indeed a bit cranky, but beside continuous words of praise, he doesnt play that big a part in this story. In fact I think the father of Stefan is more a part of this book than Ludwig von Beethoven. Using the name Ludwig von Beethoven on the back is but a cheap trick in my eyes. All in the hopes that the version will sell better. After this book I dont know what I will do about me reading Anne Rice, I have ambivilant feelings about it. I want so bad to read more of the vampires that have given me countless hours of pleasure, but on the other hand if this is how Anne Rice's new style is then I will rather live in ignorance of the doings of Armand and Pandora.
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Summary: Lush but disturbing tale of grief and dissapointment
Review: In *VIOLIN* Ms. Rice spins a tale of grief, and the loss of ones dreams. The main charactor has just lost her beloved husband to AIDS, and begins to hear haunting melodies played by a tall dark spirit. Altho I found parts of this book rich and beautiful, I believe that Anne is beginning to ramble in her work. The story dragged horribly in parts, which resulted in my loss of interest. Painfully, I finished the book, and couldn't help but think that Anne is running low on inspiration.
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Summary: I can't believe I wasted my time with this
Review: I've been an Anne Rice fan for years, but I started having my doubts with The Witching Hour. The ending to that story was completely out of character, and it seemed to me it was just a hook to get you to read Lasher. I yelled at the book when it ended, I was so disgusted. But I've enjoyed some of her other work, so I've read on. Not anymore. This book was wretched. This is my last Anne Rice book ever. I'm giving my whole collection of her works away, to avoid having anyone see them on my shelf and think I might like one of her books as a gift.
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Summary: A Failed Attempt by Rice
Review: I have read every book that Anne Rice has written under the name Anne Rice. I was enthralled from the beginning with the vampires and the witches and have remained so through her lastest,The Vampire Armand. This book however did not meet the expectations that I have when seeing the name Anne Rice on the dustcover. She fall short in not only her imagery but with the failed sense of continuity of the story line. I will make this extremely short. Although Ms. Rice remains one of my favorite authors, it is by far the worst of her books. My recommendation is to skip it and you will miss nothing.
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Summary: This is one of my Favorite Rice Books and I've read them all
Review: I just wrote a really long winded review of "armand"...4stars...and only have time to write a few lines here. The first part of this book is very unpleasant to read, but stick with it. It is basically Rice's supernaturally enhanced autobiography. How she took the pain in her life and used it to write "Interview" and letting go of the pain...wondering if she could still write without it. She can by the way. Her novels have become deeper and richer, although less accessible to the general masses who read for plot only
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I couldn't wait to read this book when it came out. Now I wish I had. Anne Rice's characters are unbelievable. She jumps around from one character thought and dream to another with no apparent connecting thread at times. The only good thing about this book was the end, for then I knew I didn't have to read another jumbled paragraph.
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