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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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Summary: Some Good Some Boring
Review: I should have guessed that Armand would have survived his burning at the end of Memnoch the Devil. How could there be Armand the Vampire if he died? This is a long narrative by Armand on his relationship with Marius. The narrative is dripping with description of verything as perceived by the vampire's preternatural senses. This description is wonderful on its own but it gets repetitive - especially after reading it in the other vampire chronicles. As the previous chronicles, Anne builds up to great drama and then she lets off the steam halfway. The steam here is let off when Armand and Marius is attacked by the Roman Coven. Marius burned and left for dead while Armand was saved. That was the last Armand saw Marius and thought him to be dead until 500 years later. (We all knew from the earlier chronicles that Marius didn't die). So the burning question which is unsatisfactorily explained was why Marius didn't save Armand from the Roman Coven? Why didn't Marius sought Armand when he had recovered from his burns? Why did Marius abandon Armand when he had loved him? It all went downhill after that and it ended with Marius turning Benji and Sybelle into vampires against Armand's wishes. Why did the wise Marius turn them into vampires without even batting his eyes, after all his earlier stand against the making of vampires? So many questions to be resolved - another unsatisfying novel.
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Summary: A Literary Masterpiece!
Review: Anne Rice's 6th novel will sweep you off your feet and into a hazy abyss of Italian and French culture. I truly envy Mrs. Rice's ability to write fictional literature in her trademark "otherwordly fashion". This book tells the story of Armand's life, from his apprenticeship to Marius up to the modern world in New Orleans where he finds religion and love for two young mortals. I recommend this novel for experienced readers with free time on their hands and an open mind that will allow them to float into another state of mind. All in all, I believe this is one of Anne Rice's best pieces to date.
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