Vittorio, the Vampire

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Summary: Simply majestic
Review: Vittorio is one of the most charming of all Anne Rice's vampires. The irony of the novel is that Vittorio HATES vampires; except for the one called Ursula. Ursula saves Vittorio from being sacrificed at communion and implies that he should be admitted into the Court of the Ruby Grail. Vittorio despises the vampires in the Court because they have slain his family and left him alone. Vittorio tries to get Ursula to confess her sins to God with the guidance of Ramiel, Setheus, and Mastema, the guardian angels. Ursula the seductress, brings Vittorio into a world against his will that he cannon even imagine...

A must read for any Anne Rice fan. Beautifully told through the eyes of a 400 year old vampire.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Unlike most of Anne Rice's books, this book was very slow. The entire book is about how Vittorio became a vampireand almost nothing of his life as one. It was extremely slow moving and the love story was not believable. I found myself skipping many paragraphs to see if anything interesting was every going to happen. It did, but very occasionally. I would recommend saving your money and just rereading some of her better books!

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Summary: Very disappointing!
Review: This would have made a decent short story, if Rice had pruned it down to the essentials. As a novel, though, it isn't really developed enough to be interesting. Poor compared with some of Rice's earlier works . . . and a waste of money!

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Summary: This book was disapointing!
Review: Vittorio the Vampire read like a well written soap opera. Rice spent so much time describing how he became a Vampire that she forgot to tell us why we should care. The characters were not fully developed and it was hard to care whether they lived or died. The love story between Vittorio and Urcilla is completely unbelievable and fails to inspire.
Overall, this book pales in comparison with her other Vampire and Witches chronicles.

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Summary: Worth the read.
Review: One could not put this tale on the same level as Ann's previous failure Pandora. The story reviels Vittorio's past ( pre vampire life) with colorfull and briliant imagry. Despite her continuious flare for homosexual tendencys, one will not be let down by this book.

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Summary: Good book
Review: Vittorio is an interesting read because it is has some dramatic departures from the Anne Rice style of writing while maintaining her characteristic high level of character development and reader's empathy.

Vittorio is not part of the Lestat, Armand, Louis crowd and gets that out of the way immediately. This is a book only about his creation given out almost in answer to a dare - a stark contrast to the overburdened soul confessing to a fatherly figure. Much of the rest of the plot follows the formula lines, really good guy gets converted against his will, etc. But the layout puts that late in the book so it is alright that that is a given. This is almost more of a book of historical fiction than a vampire novel though there are certainly vampires - and angels - in it. In fact, there is something akin to a bibliography in the back for where to get more info on people and places talked about. The time frame covers his life and lifestyle leading up to the time of his making.

I love the angels. It is a ripe field for her although it is not as loosely philosophical as Memnoch, it is thought provoking in a way. It is also refreshing to find a vampire that seems to enjoy being a vampire (in a more outright fashion than the others) and makes no excuses.

One other remarkable change - no skipping pages. Every detail and side rant was not long enough to interfere with the story and enhanced and embellished the way I think that she intended. Maybe a better editor this time round?

Overall, well worth buying and reading.

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Summary: Vittorio, the Vampire...or is it Vittorio, the wannabe?
Review: My very first Anne Rice novel was Interview with the Vampire--quickly followed by the other members of her Vampire Chronicles, my favorite being a tie between Interview and The Vampire Lestat. The moment I saw Vittorio upon the shelves, I rushed to the checkout counter and ran home to begin reading. While it was a wonderfully vivid and imaginative text, especially in its descriptions of Vittorio's guardian angels, I was wholly disappointed. The chronicling of Vittorio's life and ascent into vampirehood was interesting, no doubt, but the sudden ending after Ursula's blood initiation of the young Italian left me wanting more. The detailed relationships and descriptions of nightly occurrences which characterize Rice's Vampire Chronicles are no where to be found within Vittorio's text. While this second installment of the New Tales of the Vampires is a quick, easy read, it in no way challenges the awesome tale that is Interview with the Vampire.

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Summary: Not great, but passes the time
Review: Vittorio isn't terribly original. I found the whole *angel* development sort of trite and contrived... But it did help pass the time when I was stuck in a national airport waiting for my delayed plane, so I guess that's a plus for it.

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Summary: Vittorio the Vampire
Review: This book is extraordinarily remarkable! Through the tragedy and extensive death the book intices the reader to never want the book to end...I didn't. Vittorio's story is so much different from all the other books on vampires that I have read and I admire it's originality. I give this book a well earned and deserved five stars!!!

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Summary: Lovely!
Review: I'll try to make this short and sweet, as I know everyone is probably dying to read other reviews. I thought this book was lovely, I was very interested in learning more about the lives of other vampires besides the standard characters and was happy to hear a new voice. What a new voice it was! Vittorio sounds like a confused little boy- which is what he is, and he is trying to live out his life in good, but is finding it increasingly difficult. I saw no confusion in this story at all (except the usual Anne Rice rambling that occasionally takes place). Oh, and a reviewer noted, as I saw, that "how did Vittorio survive the burning of Akasha and Enkil, anyway" to this I answer, he lived not in that time, read the book and you, too will discover my genius (just kidding!).