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Summary: Lord of the Dead audiobook (read by Richard E. Grant)
Review: One of the best audiobooks I've listened to to-date.
Tom Holland's story is compelling. Getting Richard E. Grant to narrate it was a stroke of genius - he manages to bring each and every character in the novel to life - fires the listener's imagination! Have recommended this item to many friends.
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Summary: Mesmerizing!!!!!
Review: One of the few modern novelists to adequately capture a new view of the mythology of the vampyre. As I quickly turned, page by page, I sunk deeper into the character of Byron until I finally felt that I had become him, feeling his desires and passions. Slowly I sat the book onto the table after I had finished and for a long while, felt that I had lived the story somehow. I haven't had that happen since reading Anne Rice. Truly superb!!!!
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Summary: Intriguing but flawed look at Lord Byron as vampire
Review: The premise of Byron scholar Tom Holland's first novel is that the Romantic poet became a vampire during a trip to Greece with his friend J.C. Hobhouse in 1810, after meeting the mysterious and evil Turkish lord Vakhel Pasha. Byron's story is related by the poet himself, framed within the modern-day search of one of his descendants, Rebecca Ruthven, for his lost memoirs. The author demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the life and works of his subject, using documented facts and quotes from the writings of Byron and his associates to give weight to the story's theme. The story is somewhat weakened by the use of the frame format and the first-person narration, as the character of Rebecca is never fully developed and, although she appears early in the book as a protagonist, her ultimate role is merely that of listener. Fans of Byron and the other Romantics should find this approach intriguing, but might also want to read "The Stress of Her Regard" by Tim Powers, which is considerably more bizarre
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Summary: A wonderful book with a ending that destroyed the goodness.
Review: The premise of this book is wonderful. The prose is fantastic.
The decriptions are vivid and the characters are mesmerizing.
I greedily read the whole book in a few sittings. It was so
great that I tried to stretch it out but found that I would
rather read the book then do anything else. Unfortunately, the ending is terrible. The ending counters many of the constructs
set up by the author, loses the consistancies that held the book
together and is terribly dissapointing. I know that it is hard to write vampire fiction in the time of Anne Rice, who always
follows through and leaves no thread unexplained. But this
ending was so contrary that I wished I had never picked up
the book. Someone should write the author and tell him that the
ending ruins the book and completely discredits him as an author.
He should write a new ending and insist on a reprint. I
am sorry that I wasted my money on this book, as it exhilerated
me in the beginning and flattened me at the end. Don't buy it.
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Summary: One that can't be put down.
Review: Things in the current world we live in was changed in my eyes after I read this book. This has to be the best book that I have ever read, Tom Holland has truelly mesmorized me with his outstanding writing skills, and how well he touches into the realm of the vampire. When reading this book, I felt things that I have never felt, felt like I was in Byron's shoes, living his life...it was truelly a great feeling.
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Summary: The Best Yet
Review: This book is the best I have read in years I am always looking for something new I am a Stephen King fan and I picked this book one day because I have read all of Kings works and you can't put it down I have read it three times you learn something new everytime!
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Summary: HIGHLY RECOMMEND
Review: This book was great I loved it. LORD of the DEAD was very interesting(I couldnt putit down).Tom Holland did a great job with this book. For all u people who love BYRON & VAMPIRES buy this book.
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Summary: Awful.
Review: This is a hideous book. May I suggest, if you want to read an incredible Byron/vampire book, that you get "The Stress of Her Regard" (can't remember the author's name) instead. Don't waste your time with this book.
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Summary: Excellent, but confusing.
Review: This is an excellent book, but it had bits and pieces missing. I also find some of the bits in this story quite offensive(it's my opinion, of course.). But all in all, it's a wonderful story.
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Summary: Vampire, Byron Style
Review: This was a rather tedious book with little captivating appeal. It gives the account of Lord Byron, ala Interview with the Vampire, and his travels throughout various European countries, 'finding himself'. I thought the writing was disjointed as it didn't seem to flow well. The biggest question I found myself constantly asking was "Who cares?". Although Lord Byron is now celebrity status, I never felt drawn or attached to any of the characters to really cared what happened to them.For those people who are fans of Lord Byron, I suspect you probably will like the book and find it entertaining. Maybe that was the whole point and I just missed it. However, for the rest of us, this was just a ho-hum kind of tale.
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