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The Vampire Armand (2000)

The Vampire Armand (2000)

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0345434803 (ISBN13: 9780345434807)
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Some time ago i decided to read all the Vampire Chronicles. I started with "Interview With The Vampire" and "Blood and Gold". These books were great, i was so fond of Anne Rice's works. I liked everything in her books - characters, stories, all the dark romantism. So i went on with "The Vampire Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned". I was very inspired, and wanted to know all the stories about all the characters.After some time i've got "The Vampire Armand" into my hands. Armand- very mysterious and somber, with his own ideals and secrets. I looked forward to find his story interesting and exciting. This was a great dissapointment for me, to find the book about him so boring. I looked for strong character with difficult fate, but found only little, always crying boy. He started weeping almost after every ten pages. He was too annoying to feel sorry for him, inspite of the difficulties he had. Second thing, that dissapointed me was sex. Too much sex!! I don't mind if there are erotic scenes in the books, moreover very tastily written scenes, with beautiful people acting in the gorgeous places, as these are in Anne Rice's books. But! All the first part of book there are sexual scenes with men, women, boys and girls, other specifical people from the pleasure-houses. Ok, i still don't mind, that it could be described, because of the age the story is about and the morals adopted that times. But what for were these descriptions so long, that i almost fell asleep while reading?Little more about descriptions. That's very good for the characters to be described in detailes, when we see them first time. But author is doing that every time, when she mentions ones. By the end of the book i almost hated "cobalt-blue eyes" of Marius, and even the word "cobalt".The worst is that even after 500 years of his life Armand remained a 17-years old teenager, with all his psyhological problems, and still looking for someone to love him.

Slow, plodding and a verbose exercise in meandering, religious ramblings is pretty much the way I would sum up this book. Up until this book, I had really enjoyed The Vampire Chronicles; even very much liking the much maligned Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch The Devil, but with this book....I have to agree with the naysayers: it's not good!Armond has always been an interesting but yet vague character of the series and I was anxious to read his story, but it just meanders on and on and on. Some of the religious struggles in this book that Armand goes through, makes no sense to the previous books in this series. Anne Rice was clearly writing her own struggles/battles with religion into the character of Armand and quite frankly, it just wasn't interesting at all to read about. Even though I was on vacation some of the time while reading this, it took me me almost two weeks to finish it and that is by far a low point in my reading habits this year.It's a real shame that the most interesting parts of this book were the parts when they were talking about events that happened in previous entries to the series.I will not stop with this book; I'm definitely going to finish out the series and not let one bad experience deter those plans, I just really hope they aren't as bad as this one was. I give this one 2/5!

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Me gusta mucho como escribe esta autora y siempre disfruto leyéndola, pero hay un par de aspectos que me gustaría comentar sobre este libro en particular que lo han catapultado simplemente a las 2 estrellas. Al principio me sorprendió que el contenido erótico es mucho más acusado que en los libros precedentes de las Crónicas Vampíricas, si bien esto no lo suelo ver necesariamente como defecto, en este caso ha hecho un uso tan profuso de ello que la historia en sí misma llega a verse relegada a un segundo lugar. Cosa que ya no me hace tanta gracia. Aún así, me estaba gustando el libro. Hasta llegar a la tercera parte del mismo. En ésta, se vuelve repetitivo y altamente religioso-devoto. Estamos hablando de un libro sobre Armand, sí, pero aún así algunos capítulos son demasiado religiosos para mi gusto, incluso llegaban a recordarme sermones. Eso acaba chafando bastante el relato que, en esta parte, avanza a una velocidad más lenta. No esperaba encontrarme esto en libros de esta autora siendo sobre vampiros.En fin, salvando este par de asuntos, como siempre, ha sido un placer leer a Anne Rice. No pensaba escribir crítica sobre este libro, pero bueno, supongo que no he podido resistirme.
—marmarci

When I read a book by Anne Rice, I know what'll dominate the plot - rich, picturesque descriptions that overwhelm you and NOT lowers the value of the plot. She makes you see what she writes. I could smell the flowers and taste the delicacies she describes. The beauty of the human body is always so emphasized in her books and can make the most homophobic men fall in love with the same gender; and so she can tell you about thousands of years ago - the life story of an immortal.Unfortunately, I read this book right after Interview with the Vampire because I didn't know the order. It's not particularly tragic, though there are some characters I didn't know about, so I strongly suggest you read The Vampire Chronicles in order.Armand is a fascinating character that passed many of torments and finally found himself under the auspices of Marius, a vampire with a vague past.Those who read Interview with the Vampire has already met Armand and his vampire theater in France. Surprising how different he was and how his nature and characteristics have changed as the years passed.You read one book where he's a minor character, and then you read this book where he's the main character, and you see a completely different person, that over the years, gradually, becomes that same minor character that you remembered. Amazing.That's what I call characters building!Beautifully written and thought-provoking!
—Moriah

For some strange reason I never got into Anne Rice's books until now. When I was 19, I think I read one, but it slipped my mind and I don't remember it. Now, I find myself really liking her writing style. She's got a dreamlike flow to her novels that can either embrace you or bore you to death. You can go from what's happening in real life to some sort of hallucination in the space of one sentence. There were some parts of this book that made me feel as if I just took LSD.The reason why I gave 3 stars to this one is that there is a LOT of religious stuff in it and in her style of writing, it gets boring, especially at the end. And the whole topic of this book is the main character, Armand, losing his religion, so of course I couldn't help but imagine that R.E.M. song playing in the background the whole time I was reading this book. Of course, there's more layers behind the character, but only if you read her *other* books, i.e. I'm also in the middle of The Vampire Lestat and because I'm reading that, I understand Armand a bit better.
—J

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