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Summary: I'd read Anne if she wrote a cookbook, so.....
Review: I had heard this wasn't the best, but it still interested me. I mean, how can a vampire from the golden age not be interesting ? Well, he really wasn't. Sorry. The book was so garbled with angelic visions that it was easy to skip 2 or 3 pages at a time to get on with the story. I was enlightened by the sory of Fra Fillipo, his art, his expose`s , but it took to long to tell what could have been a better tale. The end was okay, which led me to want to know more of his future as a vampire than the short and dreary life as a human. As a vampire, he has a much more promising tale to tell.
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Summary: Not one of my favorites
Review: I've read almost all of Rice's vampire books, and this one would fall very low on my list. Her obsession with religion becomes overbearing at times, at least to this non-Catholic. The ending was abrupt, and it seemed that Vittorio's entire personality changed. I am a fan of Lestat's, and Rice's early books. If you are too, I would recommend Blood & Gold and Armand over Vittorio.
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Summary: Anne Rice Cannot Write
Review: I knew I shouldn't have bought this book (luckily I bought it at a used book store) because although I enjoyed Memnoch the Devil, I didn't care for her other writings. Well, I am a big fan of historical fantasy, namely Jack Whyte, and almost anything from the ancient Roman/British era, but this book sounded interesting, so I gave it a go. Not only did it drag, but the main character was not well rounded, and I am convinced Anne Rice cannot write worth a darn. Maybe I'm just not used to her style, but I was halfway through the book, bored and wondering if the guy was going to become a vampire, and how lame that he would probably end up with the vampire woman. I hate leaving books unfinished, but The Tribune (which I found quite good) was waiting, and so Vittorio fell by the wayside. I would encourage anyone who's used to reading excellent authors, and hasn't yet read Anne Rice, to consider borrowing this book from the library. I gave it two stars because it started out interesting, but it would have been a better story had there been a different auther, I'm sure.
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Summary: Italy: dark and beautiful
Review: Anne Rice always transports readers to other times and ways of thinking. This book is certainly no exception. While I read, I felt as if I were in an ancient land, traveling with Vittorio as he avenged his family.
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Summary: Great story
Review: Ah Vittorio, seems so long ago I read this book. I read it before I began the Chronicals series, which took me into another world for months. It is a shorter book of Anne Rice, but still a wonderful tale. I recommend it, of course.
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Summary: totally diferent... but still exellent
Review: i have the impretion that this book was made by another person, in the mind of anne rice, she keeps doing an exellent work, she is the queen of the writers, modern novel with such charming characters, she can transport you throught diferent years and make you feel you are part of the story, that you are a watcher, she really keep us with that hole, because you allways want more, but doesnt mean that you cant get satisfied with the story, but you want to read many times the book, i just cant discover where she get all that inspiration, that pasion, that desie, that feelings, the romantic vampires she created for us, even draculla is not as romantic as this beautiful vampires...i hope you read this book, you don have to read the others, because this is part of the same story, but at the same time is an independent book. is just the story of annother vampire, in other situation, in other place, in other world. just prepare yourself a cup of coffe, relax and enjoy this beautiful story.... do not expect anything equal to the other books...
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Summary: Please...no more!
Review: That it I'm afraid. I'm finished with Anne Rice after following her since the first - there's only so much angst you can take before depression sets in. Anne Rice novels, the first Lestat books in particular, carried you along in wonderment at a new view of the world, but that wonder has grown stale and stagnant, and lanquid posing while waiting for the next sexual frisson does not, for me anyway, make for interesting reading. Wondering about your place in the world is all very well, but most of us grow out of it in our teens. Maybe that's why these Vampires do little more than gaze at their own navels - they are emotionally stunted. Too much new-gothic lounging and not enough plot.
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Summary: Alright I guess
Review: this book was alright. i was not as drawn into it as i was the others. most definately the high point for me was when the angels argued with one another, and then with Vittorio himself. Also, i enjoyed the fact that Vittorio is a completely different breed than lestat and marius and armand. David Talbot was right to tell Pandora in the cafe that with each new generation of them, there are those with such unique abilities that are soley their's.
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Summary: horrible book!
Review: Yes,I read it recently and it was such a chore going from page to page only to be reading it with pointless talks of God and Angels! I have no offense against any religions, but I'm not Catholic and i'm just getting very tired of hearing how in this book, it seems to me, being Catholic is the only right way. Seriously, I also have other problems with the book besides religion. The book starts out great at the beginning, but then i'm beginning to now notice same character repetition, and same plot repetition. Is it me, or does it seem to me that starting with Vampire Lestat and a few other books I read that the characters who become vampires are the last of their families with no future generations to succeed them? That same process i notice in Pandora and in Lestat. Literally I'm just tired of hearing how much Anne Rice's characters love Jesus and all that, I could stand it in Interview, Lestat and a few others, but please, enough is enough, and if you want to have me back as your fan please make some of the characters different religions and backgrounds and personalities. because it also seems that the people who become vampires (within exception of Pandora) are Christian. I'm glad that once and for all, this book cured me of Anne Rice fixation. Is it me or 90% of vampires are gay or bisexual in her books?
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Summary: Warm but not Hot
Review: This book was very tame compared to the rest of Vampire Chronicles. I couldn't buy that the angels couldn't foresee that Vittorio would not kill Ursula. I knew this was where the plot was developing all along! One of the weaker titles in the Vampire Chronicles. Read, only if you are a diehard fan of Anne Rice.
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