Hi Dark, Well, the Vampire Armand wasn't exactly one of my favorite books either, but I will say that homosexuality and so forth is extremely common in Anne Rice's books. The relationship between Marious and Armand I personally found disgusting. Especially, since in Blood and Gold and in the Vampire Armand that relationship began when Armand was just a boy. I think I'm less disgusted by the entire vampire eroticism than I am by the anything goes attitude Anne Rice has when creating relationships between characters. It doesn't seem to matter if the relationship is homosexual, incestual, or whatever no taboo is beyond consideration with her.
I don't know if you have ever read Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy but after a while the erotic scenes get down right kinky. I don't mind sexuality in books as far as it goes, but Anne Rice has a way of being too kinky, delves into subject matter too extreme for my tastes, and I have to take Anne Rice's books a little bit at a time. She just goes too far for my sensibilities. Of course, Biography did a show on Anne Rice and from what I gather she has something of an alternative life style herself. She likes hanging out at Gothic clubs, hanging with vampire wannabes, and apparently digs the weirder crowds. I have no idea exactly how far she gets into the Gothic and vampire clubs, but I do know some of them can get pretty extreme. For example, on Taboo, a show on National Geographic, they did a program on Taboo sexual practices. One segment dealt with drinking blood during sex and some of these vampire cults are pretty extreme. I found the entire concept of people drinking their lovers blood as erotic beyond disgusting. During the show I felt like puking when they showed this one chick taking a vile of her lovers blood and drinking it down like Cool Aid. So its not just books where people get off on that kind of weird stuff. Cheers! On 9/5/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > This was precisely my problem with the anne rice books. I liked some of the > > ideas and descriptions of different vampires and their habbits, but the > concentration on the romantic aspects of vampires was just annoying, ---- > indeed the point where I utterly gave up was reading my second novel, the > vampire armand where there is a detailed description of how much a six year > > old boy enjoyed doing you know what with an adult man, ---- who I believe > was supposedly a vampire (though really, blood drinking would've been less > disturbing). > > While I admit I do have something of an over sensativity to that sort of > thing in fiction (I had to skip past several passages in the dresden > novels), anne rice just went waaaaay! too far for my taste, particularly > because as you said yourself, the association of drinking blood and > eroticism is just plane weerd anyway! > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
