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Summary: This was her last decent book.
Review: Read it, relish it & kiss Anne Rice's talent & abulity to stay in character bon voyage.This one's spiffy for those who like both fantasy & History, she even did some good research in this one^.^
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: This ranks as one of my favorite novels from the Vampire Chronicles. Pandora was an intriguing character from the moment Marius mentioned her in The Vampire Lestat. We read more of her in Queen of the Damned, and now she has her own stand-alone story to tell. Ms. Rice has certainly done her homework when it comes to ancient Rome and Antioch -- it's like she had a time machine and went back to learn the most minute of details. My only regret with the book is that we didn't learn more of what happened to Pandora after she left Marius, got rid of her mean, Eastern vampire lover, and before the events of Queen of the Damned. She deserved a book the size of The Vampie Armand and Blood & Gold. Ms. Rice's Vampire Chronicles are pretty much hit and miss since The Tale of the Body Thief, but Pandora shines as an example of Ms. Rice's great storytelling talents.
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Summary: Anne Rice does it again
Review: i absolutely love this book and recomend it to anyone and everyone!
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Summary: A Whirlwind Journey Through a Mellinia
Review: Finally, A novel centered on one of Anne's Female Vampires. I recomend this novel to Rice fans, and anyone who enjoys a good story about Roman and Egyptian antiquity, and theology. The one thing i dont understand is why Anne decided to make Pandora part of a different series. She ties in equally with other vampires such as Armand and Marius. Readers will be delighted with the rich tapestry that is designed as the physical background for the almost dreamlike living conditions of Pandora, a child of the Millenia.
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Summary: Intoxicating...
Review: I found this book endlessly intoxicating and one of my absolute favorites from Anne Rice. I have just finished Blood Canticle and I am about to start reading all of Anne's books AGAIN from the beginning starting with Interview.
Her ability to fully describe every detail accurately allows the reader to literally become that character (particularly Pandora) and live out a life so enriched in beauty of all senses that it takes your breath away. It left me with such a feeling of familiarity of this person and so much more enriched, historically, I could not possibly have asked for more. To walk through life with this woman and experience eveything the way she did/does, feel all she has been through is truly a dream to be repected and revered. Thank you Anne Rice for writing such an outstanding novel.
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Summary: Dead, but still alive
Review: A Review by Alex Pandora takes us back to her modern childhood in ancient Rome. This is where she met and fell in love with the really good-looking mortal Marius. She is forced to leave her home or be killed by the soldiers plotting to take over the city. The story begins in a café in present day Paris, David Talbot a scholar and recently made vampire convinces her to write her life story. Her story is about the survival of the highly educated and independent women born in the time of Augustus Caesar. It is about how she is attracted to mysticism and finally vampirism. And how she must fight for her soul. I really enjoyed how this book takes you from ancient Rome into modern times. I also liked that the differences between people back then and now are not really extreme. The only "slow" part of this book was when the author would get almost too detailed with descriptions, of even the tiniest things like smells from the city and clothes. But it all seemed to make it easier to imagine and feel what was happening to the characters. The most interesting thing about this book is that vampires or any other weird people could live among us, because we really don't pay attention to anyone but ourselves. I would suggest this book and the other vampire books to people who like history and fantasy from a personal point of view. I would not recommend this book to the people who are looking for the satanic vampire-killing sprees. The book is much too romantic for them.
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Summary: Overwritten, overwrought
Review: Obviously Anne Rice's publishers would publish her weekly grocery lists if she submitted them in book form. Her early vampire and Mayfair novels were SO good - I can't imagine this drivel comes from the same author.
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Summary: Break out the No-Doze
Review: The first chapter put me to sleep. I didn't read further.
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Summary: It was okay
Review: Pandora is evil, and I liked it. it was kind of long and a bit boring, until things get heated. So it's a worthy read.
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Summary: Pandora's Chatty Box
Review: It took me a while to get into "Pandora", because of the stilted manner in which the story is told. Pandora (introduced as "The Goddess Pandora" in Anne Rice's earlier "Queen of the Damned", the third book of the Vampire Chronicles) doesn't just tell her life story. She recounts it, in journal form, for one-time old psychic detective (and now young immortal) David Talbot, at his request. For the first several pages, Rice is basically clearing her throat, and Pandora expands on how wonderful it is to be alive... yet ... not alive, while admiring Talbot's impossibly well-sculpted physique. Then we get into the story. We meet Pandora as the enlightened, trouble-making daughter of a patrician Senator in Augustus Caesar's Rome, and how her family is brought to ruin by the back-room dealing of one of their own. Pandora escapes to the ancient East, but then the dreeams begin. Blood dreams. What follows is that the dreams intensify, and Pandora's efforts to assert herself as an independent woman of means in Antioch are complicated both by the presence of a familiar traitor, and the confusing lust for blood. Also in the mix is Marius, a hunky family friend who's now stronger, paler, and only visible at night. The two stories dovetail in what appears to be just 24 hours of real time. When the inevitable happens to Pandora, it's not a tragedy at all: immortality proves to be what she wants and embraces, even if she's not calling her own shots. The writing, if you gloss past the Talbot prologue, is crisp and filled with a nouveau sort of "historical realism". Rome is presented as you don't really get it in certain modern histories -- it's taken as a positive development that the Christianity is stripped away and the pagan religions remain intact,. Certain characters are still prone to making speeches that last seven or eight pages, which you just have to take as a given in Rice's world and accept with a sigh. "Pandora" doesn't so much create new myths in the world of the vampires, as it rather expands on the old ones and colors the borders a little bit. It is nice, however, to get a Rice heroine who's more interested in being alive than dying, and who embraces the eternal night with an elan usually reserved for characters on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
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