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...pumpkin pot-de-creme, pumpkin strudel, pumpkin preserves, pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin brittle, all for $8. Enough to do Cinderella proud. For a bit more variety, the Harvest Ginger Bread is dense, not overly sweet and peppered with chunks of caramelized ginger. It is normally served with rice pudding ice cream (although quite tasty topped with the aforementioned pumpkin ice cream) and caramelized pear cranberry compote. A traditional yet exceptional thin-crust Warm Apple Tart ($8) is served warm enough to melt the homemade ice cream alongside into a slowly expanding pool of vanilla sauce. Harvest's decisive flavors...
Like Stella, you too can get your groove backwith a taste of warm weather cuisine. Currychicken, jerk chicken, plantains, rice, peas, andchanna will be served at the H-R Caribbean ClubFood Festival. 4:30 p.m., Ticknor Lounge.$5/plate...
...consequence of Rice's turn of phrase here is a remarkably artful handling of sexual scenes. It appears that sleeping with nameless people of both genders is as essential to Armand's becoming a vampire as drinking blood. Armand's coming-of-age becomes a veritable Debbie Does Dallas as he screws his way across Europe. As subtle as Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book...
There are, of course, perils to the sexual preoccupation that makes Armand so enjoyable, much of the disadvantage having to do with the evaluation of Rice as a serious writer. The Vampire Armand, I realized, has to be the literary equivalent of soft-core pornography. While none of the sex is gratuitous, it is still so prevalent that it overshadows the plot and weakens attempted interjections of the story amid the sex. Rice catches herself in a paradox--bringing readers in with the skillful language of her sex scenes and then losing their interest when she uses that writing...
Parts of The Vampire Armand are truly treats to read. Dialogue aside, Rice's writing is surprisingly well-crafted--her characters are complex, her details are rich. It is the ultimate guilty pleasure, long on heaving bosoms and short on intellectual argument. This book left me full--full in an on-the-verge-of-vomiting way. Unfortunately, in appealing too heavily to the gospel of "sex sells," Rice destroys whatever critical exposure her actual writing might receive. Armand will either be condemned to the bowels of the Canon or, perhaps worse yet, become a favorite among the good-time patrons...