Pandora

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Summary: great book, but...
Review: anne rice is the horror diva, and this book is the usual great reading, but, i guess there can be no anne rice novel without sex. it's sprinkled around in every book (and don't forget...her vampires are supposedly androgynous). if you can take the sex, you can love the books! the dialogue is the best, and the vampires, are as always, more human than we are. susan

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Summary: A taste of more...
Review: Rice leads us to a different era of vampire novels when she introduces Pandora. Previous vampires are so obsessed with immortality that they become disillusioned and never quite give us the clarity that Pandora offers its readers. Taking into consideration the previous works, this novel rates among the most efficient of Ann Rice, but lacks the eliquency that the others have to offer. Still, it was worth reading.

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Summary: A Wonderful Introduction to the Vampire Series
Review: PANDORA is the first Anne Rice novel that I've read. It is a breathtakingly beautiful book. Evocative first person prose trace Pandora's early history and leave the reader aching for more of her story. I recommend this book to anyone who has never read Anne Rice before and is looking for a primer with which to whet their appetite for the rest of her novels.

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Summary: Pandora
Review: I would probably be a bit more forgiving if anyone besides Anne Rice had written this book. As it is, I feel that Anne could have done better. Hasn't she proved to us before what a wonderful writer she is with such books as The Vampire Lestat, Interview With the Vampire, Cry to Heaven, and Feast of all Saints? The writing style of Pandora was simple to the point of being childesh. The plot itself was dull, as were also the characters. Compared with the fiasco that is The Vampire Armand it is relatively harmless. At least she didn't ruin any of her characters in this one.

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Summary: Feelings of Nothing
Review: Pandora offers us a chance to relate to anything she has done. She was the key to the whole new vampire series. At least that's the way I feel. Unlike the other vampires she wasn't really concerned with immortality or any of that. In a way she was the Marie Antionette of her whole time period. She had none of the depressing worries that Louis owned. None of the coldness and confusion Lestat held within himself. And like all the rest she had none of the brutality they owned up to. This is truly the new blood of the vampires that was needed.

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Summary: Captivating
Review: I was absolutely captivated by this book. I couldn't put it down. Pandora was an excellent character - I'd like to see her life continued in another book. In my opinion, it's a MUST read.

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Summary: This is a really good book
Review: This book is a cool book. I like the way that Anne Rice did a good job on just the basic out line. The book is just like listening to a journal, and I love that. I was a little sceptical about reading something from an author that I had never read any work from, but the book was great. It kept my attention.

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Summary: A dry well
Review: Nothing new, nothing original. She has become the Danielle Steel of the Goth set. Sadly this took away a few hours of my life and this book came on Audio tape so I can't recycle it. A shame.

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Summary: It's The Way We Are.
Review: The whole book was captivating. There was nothing left out. Pandora was the typical vampire. Dazed and confused. But she did have her good points. Like when she made the ivory legged dude into a vampire. I can't remember who the heck he was. In all it was a trippy novel.

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Summary: Anne Rice can write so much better than this
Review: I found some pleasure reading this book only because I am such a fan of her vampire (and witches) series and it provided a little more background on one of the major characters of the books, Marius. For someone unfamiliar with the series it would be boring and confusing. It seems to have been written in haste without the characteristic sensuality, magic and depth to which I have become accustomed in her books. I continue to be a great fan of her work, but I found Pandora to be less than satifying.