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Summary: A Dud Again
Review: Anne is writing cardboard vampire characters. As a Rice enthusiast who's read everything she's written, it has been all downhill since TALTOS. Rice fans who give this book rave reviews are engaging in wishful thinking. VIOLIN I excused as an experiment in a new genre, but PANDORA is inexcusable in all but an aspiring novelist seeking to be published. Shame on you, Publishing World, that put this synopsis of a could-be great novel out and at the same time refuse to take a chance on the better writing of never-before-published novelists! To Rice readers I say: Even though we adore the earlier Rice for great non-vampiric works such as CRY TO HEAVEN and FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, don't let that blind your critical eye to the fact this is thin gruel to the hardy Rice novels we used to devour. PANDORA could have been a great story, but it is not; it is bare bones. And if the disappointed Rice fan wants to still laud it for its treatment of Roman history, a better job can be had for the money reading Margaret George's THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA--a gripping, thickly textured rendering of a queenly character and along with it, learn more about the cult of Isis and the ancient world. Why do I continue to read Rice like so many others? On the chance, growing ever slimmer, that the embers of the former firey plots and passionate characters will be revived. A book a year just isn't long enough to produce an unflawed, fully wrought novel. I regret to report that Rice is producing pulp. Everyone knows it, but loyalists won't admit it.
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Summary: Her best vampire
Review: I love the fact that at least one female figure in this vampire world is given the chance to talk! It is impossible not to fall in love with her. She is strong, intelligent and the descriptions about old Rome are amazing. There isn't a single unnecessary word in this book. Once you start reading it, you fall into Pandora's world and never want to leave her side. Her story with Marius is also heartbreaking. I love them both. I wish there was a book about Marius also, to tell about all those years Pandora did not see him.
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Summary: If only it was longer...
Review: I thought it was brilliant! The history mixed in the excitment of an intriguing tale is amazing!Pandora is a goddess to remember. I definitely recommend it for those die-hard Anne Rice fans out there...I was left hungering for more at the end... My only complaint is that it ended too soon!
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Summary: A Great documentary on Roman history!
Review: I believe I found this book in the wrong section, it was in Fiction. This is only the second Anne Rice book I've read, first being Vittorio. Of these two books, I believe they both focus on the incorrect elements of the story. I wanted to read a Vampire story, however what I read was a dissertation on Upper-Class Roman lifestyle and Religous History. I was dissapointed that the books were not about the story of a Vampire's life as a Vampire, but rather as the events living up to the point they become a Vampire...do you agree? I am starting on the Interview series next, maybe Lestat, since I already saw the movie, and Im hoping this book is much different. Good Points; well...It is available in the supercool format of BIG PRINT !
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Summary: She's back at top form again.
Review: Anne Rice's last few books are positively monstrous in their incoherence and long-windedness. Thankfully this one is almost right on the mark. Pandora is feitsy and heroine material, though her relationship with Marius could be better fleshed out. Her baptism into darkness makes compelling read, and I read this book way into early morning. Now, Anne Rice is on top of that hill again with this book. May she stays there!
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Summary: Beautifully written but too much Roman history
Review: I enjoy Anne Rice's books for their great detail, and the ease with which you can picture the events as they happen. However, this one was too full of history, and lacking in actually story. If I had torn the middle of the book out, and made it a short story, it would have been great. I wanted more about Padora's 2000 years! More About Marius, and less Roman history. I envy her skills, but I wish she would use those skills to fill out the story better. While enthralled, I was left hungry at the end!
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Summary: Pandora, the irreal woman.
Review: I liked the book for it's descriptions of ancient Rome and Antioch but I cannot say that I liked the caracter who is everything but Rice's. Pandora has a very special way to live. She is quite alien to her environment and although she pretends the contrary she is loveless to everything not even to Marius. I find in her caracter something far more repulsive: Pandora reflects the very northwestern philosophy of the 21 century although she is supposed to be a chaotic,passionate Roman figure. In other words this woman has no life, no light and thus no relevance, no reality. It is not surprising that she likes her loneliness. I like her alone too.
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Summary: Ranks right up there with the first of the Chronicles!
Review: A subtle book, but it was still a page turner. It was written in a way that was eaiser to understand then the rest of the chronicle books. I strongly recomend this book to anyone who loves to read.
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Summary: A non stop reader
Review: Pandora was quite a interesting book, I couldnt stop reading it, It was " cool " because, it was truly a life story of a vampire God ! Hopefully anne Rice will come out with another bok with Pandora in it ! after reading this book It made me think that not all vampire's are bad.
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Summary: A must read book for all the Anne Rice freaks out there!
Review: I found this book impossible to put down and it had a great story line. I fell in love with Pandora right from the beggining and I was so happy to learn more about her in this book when they rarely ever talked about her in the other Vampire chronicles. This is a Five star book and everyone should read it. ^_^
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