Violin : A Novel

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Summary: I usually like Rice!!
Review: Enjoyed the character Triana, Rice spent too much time on Stephan. I was lost and spent more time trying to understand and deciper Chapter 13. I love her novels, as you can tell by me email address, but this one....well, just bought Pandora today. Hope that doesn't disappoint. Sorry Anne. No hard feelings, your the novelest not I. Tish

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Summary: It is on my top 10
Review: I am surprised to see so many dissatisfied readers. I was throughouly engrossed by Rice's imaginative writing. I couldn't stop reading the section where Triana and Stefan are in Stefan's world with Beethoven and what happens to the Opera House in Vienna. Stefan's life was incredible and heartbreaking and an interesting contrast to Triana's modern life, yet they experienced the same pain. To be honest, in the past I hesitated to read Rice's books because I thought the subject matter would not interest me. But I got this book as a gift and a gift it truly was!

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Summary: Grim and Silly story.
Review: It is hard to believe that someone who has written so many great and interesting stories can also write this book. It was a chore to get through it and although I read 80% of it, I realized I did not need to dread going back to it. I could just put it down unfinished, which I did. This book is a vast betrayal to the many Anne Rice fans. Please, Anne don't do this again!!!

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Summary: I was bored and disappointed.
Review: I read two vampire books by Anne Rice last year and became her fan. When Violin came out I wanted to read it badly. I checked the online reviews but found that many people didn't like this book. Because I always have a strong feeling about music, I thought maybe I could have a better understanding of this book. I borrowed the book-on-tape and listened for 12 hours. It was very boring. Many times my mind just wondered off since there wasn't much to miss. I don't like any of the characters. I have no compassion for them. I cannot feel their pain. The only moment I feel a little upset was when the instruments were on fire, but the description is flat. I'm very disappointed. I don't recommend this book to anyone, especially those music lovers. That's all I have to say about this book.

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Summary: I think I need to read it again
Review: I have read Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Servant of the Bone and loved them so I decided to try her newest title, Violin. I had a really hard time getting through it and haven't finished it yet. It seems like it would be an interesting story but it doesn't move very fast ata all. Getting through it will take a lot of patience.

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Summary: run don't read
Review: Run, do not read! Do not buy. Do not accept if given as a gift. I've read all books by Ann Rice and I can't believe she REALLY wrote this one.

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Summary: This is my first Anne Rice book
Review: This, unfortunately, was the first Anne Rice book I've ever read. Please don't tell me that all her books are like this.

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Summary: If you've enjoyed other Rice books, this one is not for you!
Review: The book was so dry, fragmented and slow! I am an avid Anne Rice reader, and I can't believe that she actually wrote this book! The character developement was sketchy, and some parts seemed out of place. Do not bother to waste your time to read this book!

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Summary: Violin hits a long, belabored, flat note.
Review: Like many others who have left their comments here, I, too, have been a long-time fan of Anne Rice's novels. However, as was true of her last book - Servant Of The Bones - I had to start forcing myself to read Violin before I ever even finished the first chapter. Rice very obviously has cast herself as the novel's main character, Trina Becker. All of Rice's personal statistics and history - a drunken mother, a child dead of cancer, her own physical being - provide the main focus of Violin. I've certainly never met Anne Rice, but if she is anything close to the vain, pretentious, self-pitying, megalomaniac she depicts herself as being in Violin, then I can't say that I feel I'm missing anything. Violin is a bore. I never cared at all about Triana or her co-star, Stefan Stefanovsky - the ghost violinist. Both of these self-important "artistes" whined and pontificated in totally unrealistic dialogue throughout the entire story and left me wishing Lestat would show up and dispatch both of them to oblivion. He's the only thing that could have possibly saved this book from drowning in its own vanity. Others have written that this book was too depressing a story for them too read. I can't give it that much credit. It never even got good enough to be depressing. Rice preoccupation with impossibly wealthy, improbably beautiful and unrealistically perfect characters relegates her to the minor leagues of authorship. Having fallen prey to her own hype and by continuing to churn out half-baked plots and abominably underdeveloped characters, she's really little more now than the Sidney Sheldon of the horror/fantasy genre. I do not recommend reading Violin, unless you want to be able to say you read the book that marked the decline and fall of Anne Rice, the writer, and the sad arrival of Anne Rice, the Mogul.

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Summary: A disapointment
Review: Not as good as Rice's other books, too autobiographical. Does not tell about the characters too much, story tends to go on and on. Not recommended for easily bored.