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Summary: One of her best!
Review: Understand,I am not a huge Anne Rice fan. I liked the Vampire chronicles and the Mayfair Witchs but the rest didn't really spark much interest. Pandora is incredible. Her charcters are fresh and interesting,her plot is consuming,and her pace is wonderful. Her logic and theme is more interesting then her past few books(Violen comes to mind).I'd buy it again.:)
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Summary: Pandora is a dissapointment
Review: I was so looking forward to more vampire chronicles. This book rehashed bits and pieces of Anne's other vampire works, but there was little here to make you love, or hate Pandora. More than half of the book set up Pandora's 35 year pre-vampire life- who cares? she lived 2000 years as a vampire- and this is not even touched upon in this book. The Pandora Anne Rice brings to us is just not a very interesting character. I was very dissapointed.
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Summary: Her best work since Interview With A Vampire
Review: David Talbot is a relative rookie at being a vampire (he is not related to the werewolf), having only recently been converted. In Paris, David is honored to meet one of the vampiric legends, two thousand year old vampiress, Pandora. David pleads with her to tell him her story so he can scribe it for posterity. Reluctantly, Pandora agrees to write down her two millennium history. Her childhood was peacefully spent in opulence as her father was a senator in the Roman court of Augustus Caesar. However, with the rise of Tiberius as Emperor, her family fell out of favor and ultimately were killed. Pandora fled to Antioch where she met her old friend Marries, who turned her into a vampire, the first of many such converts. PANDORA is the first in a series of vampire tales tied together by David, whose goal is to chronicle the undead. The story line is vintage Anne Rice, though her classic erotica is somewhat limited in the tale. Pandora is a fascinating character, who has excited readers with her appearances in other Rice novels. That alone should make this novel a favorite of Ms. Rice's myriad of fans. However, the book is quite good and can stand on its own, thereby, inducing fans to want to have Talbot to provide other tales. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Yet again, Anne Rice shines as the ultimate vampire novelist
Review: If anyone has read any of Mrs. Rice's novels, they are fully aware of how captivating her books can be. At times her new book "Pandora" is just every bit as enthralling, though every now and then "Pandora" seemes rushed and cut short from the truly wonderful masterpiece it could have been. On the other hand, I believe this book will suppress the inexplicable hungering void that Anne Rice so horribly left for her devoted fans. Honestly after the novel "Memnoch the Devil" I thought Anne was done with continuing the Vampire Chronicles, but "Pandora" is definitely a welcomed new edition to the club. In "Pandora" Mrs. Rice goes back into time during Ancient Rome. Mrs. Rice sets the story up to be the auto-biography of the vampire Pandora, whom first appeared as just a name in the book "The Vampire Lestat". The story is initiated at the request of the young fledgeling vampire David Talbot. As the story unfolds, young mortal Pandora the only daughter of a powerful Roman Senator, discovers she is an independant woman. Then not too easly fooled when accused of betraying her family, she is thrust into a new land and new concept of life in the ancient city of Antioch. Where she finds love, religion, and that oh so wonderful Dark Gift every Anne Rice devotee would "die for". For those of you who have not read any of the other chronicles, you need not to, to understand "Pandora". In fact if you have not read any of the other chronicle books, "Pandora" is still an intruiging book and will leave you thirsting for more and more. Buy them all, read them and then read them again, trust me...also..Get ready for another installment with the book of Armand coming soon!!
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Summary: Pandora is
Review: so far, one of my most favorite book written by Anne Rice. It takes place in a time and area of the world, not too many books of this nature are written, (unless i missed them, direct me to them!!!) and is just a great read. The story flows nicely, the world an scenery she creates here is brilliant, and you can picture this time of life in your mind way after you have finished the book.
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Summary: Yaaaaaaawn....
Review: Took me two months to finish it.
I was bored...throughout the entire novel. Really big yawn. I enjoy historical fictions, but everything she told of I already knew, and her way of telling it all was rather dull.
I did not like her language...I thought it to be rather bland. I enjoy beautiful words, and I found none of that in this book. The story did not flow and was awfully choppy at most parts.
When I bought this, I had hoped for much, much more. Over-rated book.
I'm sticking to L.J. Smith...
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I must confess that this is the first Anne Rice book that I have completely read. Upon reading the first pages of this book I realized its seductive nature and was really enthralled by its overall linguist ability to captivate the reader. I'm not going to give an overall summery of the book, as is mostly done in the commentaries given here, but I will say that this book plays upon vivid imagery and a tale of a classical Rome.
In my opinion Anne Rice has exquisitely created the character of Pandora, whom even though stated by her that Rome was a place of intellectual freedom, both for woman and men, this is clearly untrue. The complexity of the character is clearly seen in her intellectual thought, but what was even more captivating was the decay of that thought through out the novel resulting in an almost complete nileist vision on life... but I won't give more of the novel away, living it up you to think about that.
In its totality, it is a completely captivating book playing upon senses, reason, and occasionally humor to expand this novel to a new level of intellectual thought.
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Summary: My favorite book besides
Review: Queen of the damned, the mummy, servant of the bones and recently Marius story, the story of pandora with female perspective love it!
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Summary: Interesting Roman culture and fill in of vampire lore.
Review: The story of Pandora fills in more of the holes in Rice's vampire series. Pandora has been mentioned previously in more than one novel, and is a significant minor player in Blood and Gold, the story of Marius. In Pandora we hear about her childhood growing up in a rich Roman family. Marius who is not yet a vampire, is the younger son of another family. She meets Marius in Rome at age 10, and at age 15 her father refuses Marius' request for her in marriage. For some unknown reason, when Pandora is age 35, one of her brothers causes the other members of her family to be assassinated in a political plot. Pandora flees with Jewish merchants to Antioch where she meets Marius again. By now Marius is a vampire and keeper of the ancient mother of vampires. Much of her story describes her trials getting settled in Antioch, another conflict with her traitor brother, her conversion to a vampire by Marius, and the first attack by Satanic vampires. Little is told about the subsequent 1800 years before she ends up in a Paris café where she writes the story. I found it to be an entertaining afternoon read. I enjoyed Rice's obvious research into Roman life, but I was disappointed in not learning more about her life during the centuries while Marius searched for her. For example, we learn nothing of the Indian vampire with whom she apparently spends centuries traveling around the capitols of Europe during the Middle Ages. Maybe Rice is saving that for another volume.
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Summary: very good...
Review: i thought that this book was very well written. it gave us a chance to see a new kind of vampire. pandora is somewhat naive at times, but when she needs to be, she is a very strong character. i liked this book so much because anne rice set pandora apart from all of the other characters. she is one of the unique ones. i gave it 3 stars because the story seemed to drag from time to time, however, it picked up the pace. i recommend this to anyone who is familiar with the writing style of anne rice.
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