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Summary: Drivel!
Review: I am still in the process of reading this one...what's happened to Anne Rice? Anyone? She used to be so interesting..now just laborious reading!! I loved the vampire series, the witches were o.k...but this, this is not worth your time!!!!!
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Summary: Makes great bathroom tissue!
Review: Oh my, what a horrible piece of trash this one is! Disjointed, rambling... either Ms. Rice was on illegal substances or perhaps it is just the onset of dementia. I would have rated it at best a half star but the scale wont let me. Let's just say that I'm glad I didnt pay full price for it when it first came out. It really isnt worth the paper it is printed on....but that's just my view. It isnt a total waste though. I use the pages to line my bird's cage.
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Summary: It was disappointing for the most part.
Review: I did finish VIOLIN, but only out of respect for Anne Rice. As a classical musician myself, I expected to be totally drawn into the story, I was not. I didn't dislike Triana and I was fascinated with her childhood and virtually anything else about New Orleans. However, I couldn't really warm up to her. I don't have a problem with Rice's straying from her gravy train of Vampires and Witches, in fact, my favorites are FEAST OF ALL SAINTS and CRY TO HEAVEN. It just seems there was not much point to VIOLIN and it moved at a snail's pace. Also, unfortunately, the heroine was not beautiful or, from what I could understand, in any real danger. I respect the amount of research Rice does on all her novels and I still enjoy her writing style, but this won't be a book I read again.
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Summary: A sonnet to the end of life
Review: I had tried to read this book when it came out and could not trudge through. But because of her other books I decided to borrow the taped version. Although nothing like the Vampire Chronicals or her bewitching Mayfair's which I love, it is written in the same grand manner and loving detail. I don't believe I could read it in the true sense of the word, I enjoyed and was enthralled with the characters as with her other more well known ones. If you are philosophical about death or intrigued with the topic of it I would recommend this book. Otherwise it's a bore.
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Summary: Recyled ideas
Review: Anne Rice is one of my favorite authors, but her literary mechanisms are becoming to baroque and repetitive between books. The central plot recycles many of her more interesting twists from previous books: Memnoch the devil, the Mayfair witches, etc. I think Anne Rice needs to take a break and evaluate her plots more carefully.The focal person of the book, Triana, is an unappealing and unsympathetic character. She has few redeeming qualities, and consequently, I could not have cared less whether she lived or died. In the end I was hoping Stefan would suck Triana into hell. When compared to Lestat, the central characters of her Witch books, or charcters from other books such as Cry to Heaven, Triana is a pale shadow of what Anne Rice is capable of producing.
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Summary: Boring and oppressive
Review: All I can say is that, compared to "The Witching Hour" which I couldn't put down and was sorry it ended, the "Violin", on the other hand, is one that I can't wait to finish so that I can read something else.... I keep waiting for it to get better!
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Summary: Painful to get through, but hang in there!
Review: Okay I bought this book like two years ago when it came out, read it halfway through and put it down, not to pick it up again for quite some time. i thought it was garbage! Two times later I picked it up and tried from the beginning to get through it and could NOT! Well, now, 2 years later, I picked it up and took one last shot at it. I dont know why, but I became completely engaged in the story and characters! For three days it became my world. It had such an effect over me, people would stop me during the day to ask if I was okay, because I was so lost thinking about Triana and her life. One must approach Violin as a novel in itself. Don't come into it expecting it to be written like her other books. Perhaps that's what my trouble was. Just go with her, and she'll take you on a journey you will never forget. I dont think I'll be the same after reading this book. Anyone else who was unable to get through it, give it another shot!!
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Summary: Anne's Worst
Review: This is her most awful book to date. It's uninteresting, and bores you to death. As a fan, I read it, but sheesh...I hope somebody had told me earlier not to. So to be considerate, I'm telling it now... DO NOT READ! (don't say I didn't warn you)
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: This is the first Anne Rice book I have ever read. I played the violin before and it drove me insane so I thought that it would be appriopriate. i liked and will read more of Anne Rice's books for sure.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: This was the first Anne Rice book I've ever read. In no time, I found myself enchanted with the book, with Stefan and with the violin. Highly recommended!!!
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