Cry to Heaven

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Summary: Brilliant!!!!!
Review: Need I say more?? Fans of gothic fiction will absolutely love this one

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Summary: I'm an Anne Rice fan, and still reading Cry to Heaven
Review: Like four other books that I've read of Anne Rice, you can't put it down. Cry to Heaven is different, the world of the castrati was new to me. I find this book interesting and suspenseful.

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Summary: A very well-written story.
Review: This was the first book of her's that I've ever read, and it has led me to her others. I liked it in particular because of the content and how it was written. To me, it talks of how 2 lives(Tonio Treschi, Guido Maffeo) are given great gifts, and how they collide together and somewhat fall apart. How the taste of revenge is fulfilled, and hunger for pleasure is somewhat unbearable. Very descriptive in telling how hard they strive to fulfill their goals and come to achieve them, and the rewards that they bring. The best part is that it catches you by surprise when you least expect it, and I couldn't put it down. : ) It was a great book, for those reasons and more.

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Summary: Transports the reader to eighteenth Century Italy with ease
Review: Rice's Cry To Heaven was breathtaking. For the first time reader of Rice, this is the first book you should read. Although many find the novel predictable and possibly boring, I found the descriptions and personnas of the characters too powerful to cease my reading. Ive read better, but Rice has done a fine job on this novel.

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Summary: Perfect. Anne's Best
Review: I could not put this book down. From the first line to the last I was enthralled. The passion between Guido and Tonio was beautiful. Even the least imporatant character had a lot to do with the plot. It is packed full of love, betrayal, and history. It is definatly one of Anne's finest.

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Summary: The impact of this book cannot thoroughly be described....
Review: I went searching for this book again, after seeing the 1995 movie "Farinelli." And all I could see how truly perfect this book is. 'I must say along with Anne Rice's other great books, ie.: TVL, IWTV, The Violin, And Saints, that 'Cry To Heaven' is truly one of my favorites if not my favorites. I will not go into the plot, I won't spoil it for you, but it's a vivid love story, two love stories actually, that go beyond our social stigmas and stereotypes and gender boundaries that are pure, raw emotion.To me, that's what a good book is, emotion, and this true for this. If you love lavish stories of heroines and heroes you will more than likely love this book. If your like me, and love to cry, the very language she uses, the stoke eloquence of it had me crying on the first page. Discover yourself and read the book, by understanding others in stories we learn about ourselves, and what they have, what they feel can be yours for the taking if you wish it. And I cannot understand how someone would not want to feel passion, love, glory, and darkness through this book.

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Summary: Vividly emotional
Review: After slouging through the Mayfair Witches series, I almost gave up on Anne Rice's descriptive but very tedious writing style. Gothic is dark, detailed and emotional but never boring which describes exactly what Cry to Heaven is about. A beautifully written book and one of my favorites. The characters are so alive and so vivid in their pain and in their endurance that readers cannot but become enmeshed in the emotional aspects of the story as well as the story itself.

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Summary: Surgery is more fun
Review: This book is disgustingly predictable. You only really need to read every tenth page or so to know what's going on. Anne Rice is obsessed with gay sex, even though her descriptions of it could make Rupaul fall asleep. Compound this with the fact that she never knows when to quit...how many times did she use the word "commence" in this book? Did anyone else find it odd...like she was trying to cash in on her 25 cent words...

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Summary: Boring
Review: Okay. How obvious was the plot on this one? I mean, I could figure out the plot as soon as Carlo came back from the Middle East. Its not that hard to figure out. And of course Tonio is going to become a world famous opera singer. It wouldn't be a story with out that. Its blah blah blah. And the constant description of guys having sex. I get the point after the first time description. I would say the same after a guy and a girl having sex. My advice is that if you have extra time read it. But if not, don't bother. The research that went into it was excellent.

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Summary: Very Human Characters
Review: I am a huge fan of Ms.Rice's and with this book, I still am, and even more than with the vampire books or the witches or the mummies. Tonio Trenshi is one of the most beautiful characters that she had ever written, he is a blend of saddness and exuberance, all rolled into a beautiful young mans body.
Seeing how different Tonio's life and Guido's life
started out and then how they came together drew me in and held me completely until the end.
Thank you Ms.Rice for yet again making a book that makes me weep for our countries illiterate people.