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i couldn't pick it up...	Customer Rating:
I loved every one of this series, but this one made me yawn, i have owned this book for years and STILL haven't finished it. not riveting at all...

Black and Gold	Customer Rating:
This book stands out as one of my favorites among the Anne Rice novels. I was able to finish it in about three days because I just had trouble putting it down!

Fire really isn't all that important to a Vampire Hmm??

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It's a good thing that Anne Rice has decided to only write inspirationals from now on. Truly it is because her novels have degenerated beyond repemption. At least I won't be surprised if the last two of her novels I have left to read are any indication. Sloppiness can be an art form true. But even well done sloppines is too good of a term for her work in the twenty-first century. Consider herein Rice in 1530s Venice says of a contemporary that they "surely" know the age of an artifact from ancient Antioch. Sheer rubish. Unless of course word-of-mouth is a new power of "creatures" back then. Again folks get ready for the disruptive addiction Rice has to the word "creature." But then fire has always been a way to kill a vampire. Either from the Sun or not. But then Marius spends 400 pages in his book and never says a word about getting burned out of his gord one night. Not a peep. Sloppiness is surely one thing that Anne Rice could spend a little time trying to avoid. I am not one to nit pick over every discrepency in this Author's works only because I am at he close of her career as it stands now. But I will miss her.

What the...?

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I thought this author hated fan fiction. I mean, on her web site she forbade her fans from writing any more of it back in 2000. And yet, skimming through this book, I saw scene after scene, dialog thread after dialog thread, that seemed to have been plucked directly from some of the (much better written) fan fiction I've encountered over the years. Take the scene in which Marius and Thorne go out to the local watering hole and meet up with three ladies, for instance. I read that same scene in a piece of fan fic fully two years before this book was released. The fan's scene involved different characters, but otherwise it was nearly verbatim. Then again, maybe that was the real reason she demanded all fan fiction be removed from the Internets. Outside of that rather intriguing item, this book was a crashing bore.

Not Free SF Reader	Customer Rating:
Blood and Gold is an example of another book of the Vampire Chronicles series that is of around the same quality as The Vampire Armand. Instead of Armand though, this is Marius' story, and Armand is of course part of this. However, the major focus is his discovery of a vapire, his turning, and his eventual custodianship of the two ancient statue-like vampire elders, and the problems this causes.