The Vampire Armand, Kiddie Porn

[Cazzle]

*Originally posted by Scylla *
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I got fifty pages into it, and literally got sick and through it in a trash can. I can’t beleive they actually published this.

Within the first fifty pages or so, a young prepubescent boy gets brutally sodomized. Fortunately, he is rescued by the pedophilic vampire Marius who takes him to his artsy home where he performs loving fellatio on him to the boy’s delight!

I was in shock, but hoped the book would move on, and kept reading. Five pages later it happened again! That’s when I tossed the book.

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**NOTE: SPOILERS **
I enjoyed all of the Anne Rice books I’d read, so I bought Armand when it came out. Normally, I’d expect to finish a book that size in a week - less if it’s really good - but Armand was too damn sick to read, and it took me over a week just to get 50 pages in. After that, I threw it under the bed for 6 months, before attempting to read the rest. I eventually got through the whole thing, but I wish I’d never read certain parts of it, they were so disturbing because they were just plain wrong and evil. Somewhere, Anne Rice has dropped the thread, and Armand is just an attempt at sensationalism rather than a genuine story-that-had-to-be-told.
Spoilers
At the end of the book, we find out that Armand survived the fire in Memnoch… how many of these vampires are going to be “truely” immortal. We’re told that the only thing that can kill a vampire is fire, or the rays of the sun, but apparently that’s only true for a few hundred years. Lestat, Armand, Magnus, Akasha, Marharet, Makare… the list goes on. I hated the character of Armand, and wanted to see him dead anyway.

[Eft]

I’ve read quite a bit of Anne Rice, although I gave up on the vampire chronicles after reading The Tale of the Body Thief and should have given up on the witch stories after The Witching Hour. (I read the second and third books and found them profoundly dull.) I like a lot of her older stuff pretty well, and think that her two best books are The Vampire Lestat and The Witching Hour. Although I haven’t spent a lot of time on her more recent stuff, I’m generally pretty well disposed toward Rice as a source of fluff fiction.

The other resident of the EftHouse bought The Vampire Armand while on a business trip, came home, and put it on my bedside table with the comment, “You’re not going to believe this.” I picked it up and flipped through the book at random. Everywhere I turned, I came to another sex scene, generally one involving children. I finally gave up. I’m incapable of throwing a book away, but it’s on the shelf, unread, and I don’t see getting back to it. Rice is still a good, vivid writer, but I don’t want good, vivid images of child orgies running through my head. Just flipping through the book gave me more than I wanted.

I don’t think that the sexual depictions of children has anything to do with historical accuracy. I don’t think that Rice gives a rat’s patootie about historical accuracy except so far as it supports the story that she wants to tell; she is superficially accurate, but I would never turn to her as an authority. My guess is that she got popular enough to tell any story she wants, and she wants to tell a story about child sexuality, even if she’s dressing it up as a vampire story. Rice is and has been openly interested in the issue of childhood sexuality; look in Camille Paglia’s Vamps and Tramps for Paglia’s interview with Rice. They spend quite a bit of time on the subject.

[foxfyre]

I didnt remember The Vampire Armand having any gay kiddie porn…

For some incalcuable reason(perhaps because of my breakup with my GF), I was on an Anne Rice stint for a month or so. I started with Exit to Eden and read all the Vamp Chron books except Merrick (which ive heard is a crossover from her Witches books). After the first couple of books I started to ignore all homoerotic parts and this became so automatic that by the time I was done with Armand, I didnt remember any gay kiddie porn… Funny how the human mind works, eh…

Besides, everyone knows all the Vamp Chron books are true, although extreemly embelished. The characters of the book say so themselves! Also, Anne Rice IS a Vampire! Have you ever looked at her pictures in the dust jacket of the books? She doesn’t age! In the newest book, she looks even younger than in the others! Also, almost ever convention shes gone to, shes arrived after dark! (ignore the fact that most Goth/Vamp conventions are held after dark…)

Anyway, back to the topic, I agree with the statement: “if you dont like it, dont read it”
-Fox

“Minds are like parachutes: They only function when open.”

“I can’t explain myself,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.” -Alice’s Adventure Under Ground