Pandora

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Summary: Pandora was a fantastic love story.
Review: Once I figured out that it was a love story instead of Lestat revisited, I was intrigued. If you love history and drama, you'll love this book. Just don't expect the same old vampire stuff. Also, I think that Rice had something to say to her gothic fans who take this stuff too seriously. Fun stuff

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Summary: Dark, yet enticing, romantic, but heart-breaking
Review: This is Anne Rice's best book yet. It is the first to show the life of a vampire through the eyes of a woman.

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Summary: i thought it was wonderful!
Review: pox on those vampire followers who gave pandora less than 5 stars - this book was glorious - i just love how rice takes a character who you thought you knew somewhat from one of her works, then takes you into their soul in another - look at the lestat in "interview" compared to him in "lestat" - pandora was described oh so differently by marius and lestat and now we "know" her... and i love her descriptions of the ancient world - what other literature can really make you feel like the characters are real people (well, even if they are vampires!) and the conversations about reason, christianity, violence - just fantastic! i must read...

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Summary: Postcard from Ancient Rome
Review: A sensitve reader armed with a Dorling-Kinnersley dictionary and an appetite for cheap romance cast in vampire costume will admire "Pandora," the latest opus by the Mistress of Contemporary Gothic, Anne Rice. It will certainly whet the appetite of some of her fans for her work. Unfortunately, as with several of her recent novels, one is left with the impression that a stone is being ground and little is left of the blade but a fine, thin edge that separates genre from schlock. Vampires, after all, are the stuff of every teenager's fantasies, and one might as easily imagine Rice losing authority over her domain as easily as she found it. That domain is New Orleans. Ms. Rice is in that league of authors for whom life in the Crescent City finds expression in beautiful, well-tuned sentences that have the uncanny ability to express the inchoate pangs one feels when one crosses an intersection or threshold in that shadow-dappled vale of tears. She has a very keen eye for the striation of values, for tenebrism, for chiaroscuro. However, there is something lost when she strays far from home, armed with a Baedeker's and left wandering in ruins that are not her own. It is left to the reader to decipher the map and help the stranger who travels under the same passport return safely.

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Summary: Disappointing....
Review: Because I enjoyed most of the other vampire books so much, I was really looking forward to reading this one. It doesn't go anywhere new. It was a rehash of the other stories. I finished it; but found it rather dull.

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Summary: IT was great
Review: I thought that the book was great with the exception of it not being long enough. I cannot weight till the next vampire chronical comes out.

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Summary: Pandora is classic!
Review: Pandora is a beautiful creation at the hand of Anne Rice. In the other vampire chronicles, Pandora was a two-dimensional character. She was part of the story, but we didn't know how or why she was the was she was. Now, Anne Rice has given Pandora a third dimension and the results are esplendid. Also in this book, Anne Rice shows her incredible knowledge in Ancient History. Thru the eyes of Pandora we see the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. It was almost a history class. My only complaint is that the book is too short. I want more!

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Summary: A disappointment to Vampire fans
Review: I was really looking forward to this, the new book in my favorite fiction series of all time and I am very disappointed to say the book just falls flat. What happened? Like other reviewers, I just got bored with it and set it down; I havent been able to finish it. :( I just couldnt get into it at all, there is nothing new at all in the writing style- and the story is very dull. Pandora writes exactly the way Lestat does in his books sans the flash and interest... Anne, what happened?

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Summary: A life that doesn't just suck blood.
Review: Not only has Anne Rice outdone herself she has given the readers something to look at other than the vampire. She gave us a detailed account of what is was like for the human side of the vampire along with how ancient lives lived and loved.

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Summary: Excellent, couldn't put it down.
Review: The book was short, however, it was still classic Anne Rice.