How long does it take to read The Vampire Armand?
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice takes about 9 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of The Vampire Chronicles
Previous: Memnoch the Devil Next: Merrick
About 9 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 500 pages, about 137,500 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of death. Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the Vampire Chronicles returns to the glittering story of Armand, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven at the eighteenth-century Theatre des Vampires in Paris (seductively played by Antonio Banderas in the film of Interview with the Vampire). Snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice, Armand's story sweeps through several hundred years, to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century, where Lestat lies waiting for immortality, and the legend continues to grow....
Subjects: Fiction, Renaissance, Vampires, Ficción, Kievan Rus in fiction, Renaissance in fiction