Violin

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Summary: I think I am the only one who like this book
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I am a college student studying Music Performance, maybe thats why I like Violin. I love how she interjected the great masters like Beethoven and Paganini into the novel. And I felt so bad for Stefan. Like I said maybe, my musical backround had something to do with it.

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Summary: It really is a great book...
Review: I understand how people can say that they didn't like this Anne Rice book, because it is very different from most all of her others. However, I found the story haunting and beautiful, even though there were certain things I didn't like. Overall, it was wonderfully written, and I thought it was well worth the time it took to read.

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Summary: The worst of the Anne Rice books
Review: I have enjoyed all of Anne Rice's books but this one. Not only was it slow, but it felt too personal in a way.

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Summary: Anne Rice at her worst
Review: If this book had been written by an unknown, it would never have seen print. Rice loses her command of both story and language before this drivel is through. I generally like her, so I was extremely disappointed. Save your money, and read the Vampire tales.

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Summary: Pure babble
Review: Have you ever sat down to read a book, read a chapter-full of words, then realized you absorbed nothing? So you yell at the kids to quiet down or turn off the TV. You re-read the chapter, but the result is the same. The Violin is the literary equivalent of someone picking up a violin for the first time and running the bow across the strings aimlessly and incessantly. Pure babble. I have not read her other books because I find the vampire theme boring. I jumped at the opportunity to read The Violin. Getting to the end of the book was an empty chore, not a pleasure.

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Summary: Two self-centered characters bore the reader to death.
Review: Having enjoyed Anne Rice's books in the past, I found "Violin" to be a great disappointment. Though rich in description and visual imagery, it was repetitiously boring. The reader is treated to an endless stream of unwarrented guilt on the part of Triana and a ludicrous claim to extreme suffering by a talented ghost. The relationship between the two lead characters is never believeable; how they became connected in the first place is unclear. The novel would have been better presented as a short story. If you want to read Anne Rice, re-read one of the Vampire series.

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Summary: very, very dissapointing
Review: I don't like to say this about Anne Rice novels, but this one was just horrible. I don't know how I finished it! I do NOT recomend this book. If you are looking for an excellent Anne Rice novel, read The Vampire Armand.

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Summary: A fine example of steam of unconciousness writing.
Review: Mrs. Rice has created the most impressive work of directionless drivel I have ever had the displeasure of reading. After the first ten pages I checked the spine of the book to see how much money I wasted. Twenty pages later I realized that the book was a sunk cost and I was continuing to pay with each disjointed sentence I read. The only redeeming quality of this book is that by comparison it lends artistic credibility to pornography and sitcoms.

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Summary: Very slow
Review: I found this book to be very slow and depressing. Nothing like her other books, which I loved. This book has taken me forever to get through. I ended up falling asleep.

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Summary: Maybe she can claim she was drinking?
Review: This is a convoluted tale of two different stories pasted onto one another for no other reason than the author could. After LESTAT and INTERVIEW, this novel was a huge disappointment.Even most of the diehard Anne Rice fans sighed about this one. This book is one that can and should be missed. If you love Anne Rice books, just say no because this one could ruin your taste for her. As for Ms. Rice, better luck next time.