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    The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles

    Written by Anne Rice

    Narrated by Jonathan Marosz

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 4, 2000
    ISBN9780375418341
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    The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles
    Author

    Anne Rice

    A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.

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    Reviews for The Vampire Armand

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    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book by Anne Rice. I absolutely fell in love with Armand. All of her books are amazing, but Armand is my favorite character.
    • 2/5
      Gay vampire sex, Armand gets duped into joining/leading a cult, Lestat fucks shit up (as usual), Armand and Marius make amends. The end. Not her best work by any means.
    • 5/5
      I was seduced. Another time the lesson was learned. NEVER read anything outside the privacy of your home for the first time. You never know what emotions lay in a book. You never know how you might be affected.
    • 3/5
      Practically Gay-porn.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful read.
    • 4/5
      As with the previous book I enjoyed this story more during this reread than I did when I first read it years ago. Then, I was enamored with Lestat and only felt annoyed at all the other story. This time I was able to really fall into Armand's story. There are still parts of Rice's writing that I scan over - the flowery descriptions of the landscape for instance. You can certainly see her as an author warring with her own beliefs in these last few books. It shows in her character's widely different beliefs. Great series! So on I go to plow through the rest of the books.
    • 1/5
      I'm completely unable to like this book. I just can't. I only read it because I'm a fan of Anne Rice's Vampires' series. I was never really Armand's fan and this book only made me hate him even more. I even tried to see the story through his and Marius' point of view, but no matter how beautiful may be the story of a mature man trapped in a angel-like boy, the constant and exhaustive repetition of this fact is simply annoying. Armand himself thinks he is too much of an adult, but during the WHOLE BOOK his acts contradict his thoughts. And there are too many things that Armand does that you just can't understand and not even his moments of supposedly "insanity" explain, unlike what happens with Lestat.

      The little flashback scenes of the red-haired baby-vampire were only enough to increase my hatred towards this childish character, that did nothing more than cry for his master during more than half of the book (so that he would abandon him for no plausible reason). The only thing that made me want to finish reading this book was nearly the ending, when he finally realizes his own mistakes.

      Absolutely awful. I'd even read VIOLIN again, but won't ever want to look at this book ever again.
    • 3/5
      Good Rice and a good narrator for a good tale. Of all the vampire tales, and other than _Lestat_, this is my fave.
    • 2/5
      Couldn't finish it. Soft porn, and pretty boring porn at that.
    • 4/5
      After a not-so-impressive (to me) story of Memnoch the Devil, Rice has drawn me back in with Armand telling his story. He goes back to when he first met Marius, his time as a coven leader, the Theater of the Vampires, all the way to modern times when he saw the Veil.

      A definite good read!
    • 2/5
      I'm not sure if it's because of the recent chaos going on in my life or if this book really wasn't that great... It bored me. It couldn't hold my attention at all. This book took me longer to read than any of the rest of the series has.

      I did like some of the imagery in this book, but at points there was so much imagery I forgot what the plotline was in the time it took me to read the descriptive paragraphs...
    • 4/5
      A very good book and very historically fresh. I recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Armand is one of the more interesting vampires, but I'm getting a bit tired of this series.
    • 1/5
      Well written but SO boring and slow, didn't even finish it. I was tired of explicit sex scenes and Armand's fascination with sex.
    • 4/5
      The reader is taken on a journey seeing this time through the eye's of Armand, the beautiful boy vampire of over 500 years old. His life story is unfolded and a better grasp is discovered as to why he lived the way he did as a coven leader under the tombs of Paris for 300+ years. He is overcome by Veronica's veil which Lestat brought back from Hell and goes into the sun only to be saved by the love he has for two mortals. At times the book is very sexually explicit.
    • 4/5
      Aaaaah, Armand. I absolutely LOVE Armand's story. Brought into the blood by Marius, only after a childhood full of tragedy and pain, Armand is one of the most well spoken vampires. The passion shared between Master and pupil is breathtaking, and the narrative is full of philosophy and art.
    • 5/5
      My favorite Vampire Chronicle. Armand is the best vampire in the series. I was ecstatic to get a book devoted to him.
    • 1/5
      Not a good book. I couldn't get past the first half.
    • 3/5
      The 'autobiography' of the Vampire Armand, from his birth in Kiev Rus up to and including the events of Memnoch the Devil.While Armand's life and history were interesting, and something I've been curious about since I read Interview with the Vampire, I was not entertained by the theological discourses Rice has seen fit to engage her characters in more and more frequently in the last couple Vampire Chronicles. Also, an odd juxtaposition, a lot of the description of Armand's sexual relationships with Marius, Bianca, and others. Overall, it was okay, and I suppose essential to the series.
    • 2/5
      Book in a minute: Capture! Pedophilia! Burnination! Loneliness. Lestat. And whining. Liberally sprinkled with whining. If I were a vampire, I would always keep a flame-thrower in my pocket. Just in case I ran into Armand in some dark alley and didn't miss my chance to torch his silly ass.For die-hard fans only.
    • 3/5
      I always thought Armand was a bit of a whiner, but this book only further proves my point. For lovers of the series, it's a decent read but by no means worthy on its own. Appropriate for high school and beyond.
    • 2/5
      A common theme among Amme Rice's novels is that a majority of her characters are either blatantly homosexual or at least have homosexual tendencies, but none come to the level that this book does. A majority of the book (up until Armand becomes a vampire) focuses on Armand having sex with Marius, having sex with other boys, having sex with girls but then comparing it to having sex with boys. Meanwhile the rest of the imagery falls to the wayside. The book mostly takes place in Venice and it would seem that Venice is an uninteresting place given that it is described very little throughout the book.In other books, Armand always comes off as a highly intelligent, devious, schemer. In this book he is portrayed as whiny, self-absorbed, and hopelessly co-dependent. I was bored through most of the book, even though Armand was always one of my favorite Anne Rice characters.
    • 5/5
      Gutwrenching...racy...beautifully woven. Visceral. I was captured by the imagery and made breathless by the violence. Definitely one of the better works by Rice.
    • 1/5
      Unreadable rubbish. Only the second book ever that I've never managed to make it all the way through, which given the amount of TV tie-in Doctor Who novels I've read really means something
    • 4/5
      Too much sex in first part, not enough revenge, romantic beautiful writing, pretty cool God stuff.
    • 4/5
      The most sensual book in the chronicles. If you are a homophobe than you don't want to read it, but you are really missing something!
    • 4/5
      A must read for vampire fans. Anne Rice proves to be the best vampire writer.
    • 5/5
      Pretty good book, kinda long but good. Would recomend again
    • 2/5
      Gay vampire sex, Armand gets duped into joining/leading a cult, Lestat fucks shit up (as usual), Armand and Marius make amends. The end. Not her best work by any means.
    • 4/5
      After a very long hiatus, I recently got back into Anne Rice, having read the first three books of THE VAMPIRE CHORNICLES many years ago. In THE VAMPIRE ARMAND, she takes one of her secondary characters from those books and gives him the center stage, letting him tell his story to the fledging vampire David Talbot in the wake of the events from MEMNOCH THE DEVIL. This book was written back in 1998, after Rice herself had stayed away from her beloved creatures of the night for a few years, but she clearly knew what her fans wanted, and most of all, liked in her fiction, so she went back to dancing with the ones who brought her. Only this dance was not with Lestat, her most famous and popular character, but with Armand, a teenage vampire with the face of an angel. What she was doing was obvious, expanding her vampire universe and seeing if she could do it without relying on, and in the process, exhausting, her most popular character.How good were the results? I think this book will certainly please die hard Rice fans, for all the stuff she does well in on display here, including her mastery of characterization; her ability to make bygone cultures come to life on her pages, and not only that, but long vanished cities and places return in vivid detail. There are arcs in ARMAND that are Rice the story teller at her best, especially in first half, where Armand narrates how he was kidnapped as a child in medieval Russia and sold into slavery in Constantinople, only to be rescued by the ancient vampire Marius, who was once a Roman senator, and brought to the Venice of the Renaissance, where he lives in a house filled with other boys such as himself. How Armand comes to receive the Dark Gift and a subsequent trip back to Russia with Marius, where he is very briefly reunited with his grieving parents, is Rice at her best. In the other books, we have always seen Armand through the eyes of Lestat and Louis, but here we see him in full, and learn that he is truly a damaged child, eternally in search of the love he lost when the home of his maker was destroyed by fanatical blood drinkers. Attempts to find it in a coven underneath Rome, and later in Paris with Lestat, do not work out. Later, in the aftermath of the events of MEMNOCH, a badly burned and injured Armand is rescued by two precocious human children named Sybelle and Benji, and he has a chance to find love and a family once again, but this being Anne Rice, she throws in another twist before the resolution in the last pages. And if the best of Anne Rice is on display, some of her worst faults can be found in ARMAND as well, starting with her well known penchant for over description, making sure we know everything about every crook and nanny of every house, hovel, palace, basement, and back room, it is a wonder she doesn’t describe the interior of the rat’s holes. Rice’s characters always talk a lot, her chatty undead are a staple that many love about her books, but boy do they talk here, as some scenes run on pages longer than they should. In the second half, there are long arguments about faith, philosophy, the nature of man and the mind of God, and what Christ meant. This has always been seen as Rice working out her own views on God and religion and man, and while I do not have a problem with it, I can see how this might try the patience of many readers. Some have noted that Rice was so successful at this point in her career that she no longer had an editor when she wrote this book, if it is true, then it certainly shows. Also, the ever present homo eroticism is not everyone’s cup of tea, and the part of the book concerning the Roman vampire Marius and his house filled with boys may make some uncomfortable in what it implies, but this is Rice portraying an older, and distinctly non Christian culture.In the end, I found Armand to be good company, and an excellent narrator, treating the reader as an equal, as someone worthy enough to share his story with. There have been preparations for a TV series based on THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES, and I am sure that sooner or later, it will come to pass. When this happens, hopefully, they will do justice to Armand’s side of the story.