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| Original Title: | The Vampire Armand |
| ISBN: | 0345434803 (ISBN13: 9780345434807) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Vampire Chronicles #6 |
| Characters: | Marius de Romanus, Bianca Solderini, Santino, Armand |
| Setting: | New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) Louisiana(United States) |
Anne Rice
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 457 pages Rating: 3.76 | 62594 Users | 902 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles #6) |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 457 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2000 by Ballantine Books (first published October 10th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy. Fiction. Supernatural. Urban Fantasy |
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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms. Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.Rating Appertaining To Books The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles #6)
Ratings: 3.76 From 62594 Users | 902 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles #6)
I have no words for how unendurably horrible and boring this book is. Armand knows only how to cry, beg people to love him and seemingly can't get his head around Christ. He is a pathetic wanker that can do nothing on his own, with an unhealthy obsession with Lestat...whom he both loves and hates. He's 17 when turned a vampire, but when he's 500 years old and still 17 in his head, all you want is to strangle him. Apart from that - the narrator being an idiot and a madman - the book lacks plot.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
This next installment in the Vampire Chronicles continues from the end of Memnoch the Devil. David Talbot approaches Armand to convince him to share his life story with him. Up until now, we have only viewed Armand through the lens of others and from a distance, knowing him to be the "Botticelli Angel", the beautiful eternal adolescent. We now get taken back to Venice 500 years prior to where Armand is a young slave brought over from Russia and rescued by Marius, the ancient vampire, who takes
For me, The Vampire Chronicles are the be-all-end-all of vampire novels. And while I have my favorites within the series, I find myself comparing every other vampire novel I read to the entire set. So, if you want to discuss them, go ahead and send me a note. And if you're new to the vampire genre, you can't go wrong with Anne Rice. This one is my second favorite of the series.
The first half of this book was absolute rubbish. It was basically random assorted sexual encounters, interspersed with the parts of Armand's backstory we already learned in other books. The second half was of passing interest, I enjoyed the story picking up where it left off, and learning what happened to Armand after the end of the last book - but some of the main plot points were pretty confusing. (And Armand and Anne Rice through Armand seem to make note of this....).What absolutely has to
I am giving this book two stars only because Anne Rice is a talented author, and I cant bear to give this a single-star rating (though, honestly, it might deserve it). Man, what a bummer. I loved the last four volumes in this series, but this was a mess. Written after a short hiatus from the Vampire Chronicles, this volume follows Memnoch the Devil, which Rice said was supposed to be the series finale. That would have made sense, and it would have been a fine note to end on. Instead, three years
Lestat lies in a coma-like sleep in a chapel and while vampires gathers around him, Armand tells his story to David Talbot, Lestats former Talamascan fledgling. Armand takes us with him through his childhood in Kiev; from where he is kidnapped and sold to slavery, to Venice where Marius saves him and eventually gives the dark gift and to Paris where he led his Satanic Vampire cult. Maybe I should start this telling that this was 4th or 5th time reading this and yep, I still love it! Armands
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