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Summary: Anne Rice's feelings on the reviews
Review: This message is from Anne Rice through her assistant Scott Zebley. Anne has read these reviews and is pleased that the novel created such controversy. Not since the 19th century has there been such a real potential for critical debate and discussion of current novels as that which appears here. Anne may post her own comments soon
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Summary: Not worth the money I paid for it
Review: As an avid reader of the Chronicles, I expected an upswing after Violin (another disapointment), but was let down again.... In fact, I've consistently been let down since Queen of the Damned...come on Anne... take a vacation... get the muse back in your corner and don't do less than you can....
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Summary: I couldn't even finish it!
Review: I have been a long time Rice fan and am appalled at this book. I tried for almost four months to trudge through it. I agree with the "gay porn" reviewer. Sad-sad!! I hope Vittorio is better.
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Summary: Living off the flesh of the dead
Review: How many times can an author tell the same story over and over again...very tiresome. I have read each "1st in a series book" of Ms. Rice's with relish (Witching Hour=fabulous; Interview=fabulous) but now maybe a new story outline should be thought out. This is probably the last Anne Rice book I shall ever purchase.
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Summary: Fantastic!!! A Must Read for All Vampire Fans!!
Review: For many Anne Rice fans, the topic of lavish historical splendors, the wonders of sensuality,the delicacy of intamcy,and love and companionship on a vampiric level was reached in the form of The Vampire Armand. It was brilliant! Rice delivered a more enveloping story for the once hated Armand. In Armand's story, Rice filled in holes and gaps that many fans had been dying to know about for years. She weaved a story of lust, love, anger, evil, temptation, and absolution all into a single volume of storytelling. It was Rice at her best and this one should not be left unread. Armand was and still is a very intriguing character. I was shocked to have read in Memnoch the Devil, that she had killed Armand and another vampire off. Both of whom had wonderful possibilities for a back ground story. She brought Armand back from the dead and gave him such vigor once more. This book explored every side of Armand, some that we never knew existed. Her gift of homo-eroticism was in full swing, enriching the relationship between the aged Marius and the very, young and beautiful Armand to new heights. Her gift of making her vampires sensual and powerful is mesmorizing. Sometimes, the historical vlaue fits the mood, but lags the action and suspense to make you speed through her mental tour of lands not spoken. The Vampire Armand is a great addition to the Vampire Chronciles. Now with the New Tales of the Vampires, starting with Pandora and continuing with her newest creation Vittorio The Vampire. I'm sure her new works, will be as sexy, intriguing, perplexing, and even more senusal than her last.
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Summary: big disappointment
Review: i have been a longtime fan of anne rice. but this book was a huge disappointment for me. i found the many pages of explicit sexual encounters to be boring and without merit. i think there could have been a lot less of that without losing any understanding of armand's character. much of the dialogue seemed very stiff and hokey. i guess i was just expecting something more like the books about lestat. i had stopped reading rice's novel's for a while but came back for PANDORA;not impressed. THE VAMPIRE ARMAND was one more try...i don't think i'll be back for another.
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Summary: If your into gay porn, don't skip the first half!
Review: Having read several of Rice's Vampire Chronicles, I found myself re-evaluating the entire series after finishing THE VAMPIRE ARAMAND. The two main vampires, or rather "vamps" in this case, have been reduced to nothing more than a couple of sniveling fops! Having bathed in the lake of immortality seems to have produced a ravenous appetite for nothing more than rabid homosexual lust, sacchrine laced proclamations of love and commitment, and fawning over the latest fashions. Marius and Armand, former icons and pillars of strength within the 'chronicles, have been transformed into a pair of Harliquin Romance candymen. Once beyond the vacuous relationship of these immortal lovers, Rice regains some of the pacing that made her other works classics. Unfortuneately, the nose dive is recovered too late.
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Summary: The aboslute pitts - I rate this book ZERO STAR
Review: I finished this book last night (2/10) thank goodness it is over. She ruined Marius - she ruined everything - i have always enjoyed the AR poetic style, her historic descriptions but this book was just the pitts - i thought violin was a fluke - now we can add armand - it was just alful I have read every book she has published - now there are 2 i thought were alful - i hope she shakes this whatever it is.
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Summary: A good, but not great, book.
Review: I have read all of Anne Rice's vampire books, and have enjoyed them. The Vampire Armand was interesting to me, however I don't know if I could recommend it to someone who has not read a number of her other books. It seemed to help fill in the blanks left in the Armand/Marius story, but it was unquestionably the least compelling of all the Vampire Chronicles series. But let's face it: if you're a fan of Anne Rice, you are getting this book. What choice have you?
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Summary: I don't think Armand can carry his own novel
Review: Not Rice's par at all. The spark and sensuality evident in the other Vampire books just isn't as present. The sexual, visceral descriptions illuminated the behaviors of previous Rice vampires. It's stale in this book and Armand is just a really flaccid character here. The androgynous boylike nature that made him so fascinating in "Interview" just makes him seem weak in "Armand."
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