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Summary: weak and watered down
Review: I love Ms. Rice's work, but Pandora, what happened Ms.Rice, had to make a deadline....way too much "filler". Book should have been titled Roman history. Ms.Rice could have done so much more with this book. Skipped around and over alot of the heart of the story. I hope this is not what the future hold for you and the next of your novels.
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Summary: A look back
Review: Pandora is in all aspects a look back. I enjoyed Pandora a lot. Though it sometimes would settle on the less important, Pandora is very good.
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Summary: Great, but too short!!
Review: I think that with PANDORA, Anne Rice has regained her old charm. I have read all the vampire chronicles, and it seemed to me that THE TALE OF THE BODY THEIF and MEMNOCH THE DEVIL were less entertaining than THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. But with Pandora, Rice has breathed life into a character we only fleetingly glimpsed in TQOTD. PANDORA is an excellent character study and has great passages of prose. The only thing is that Rice glosses over the last 1,950 years of Pandora's life!!! How about Azim's story, I've always wanted to know more about him? Seems that Rice has gotten lazy.
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Summary: Fresh, Dark and un-Lestat......FINALLY
Review: I refused to read Anne Rice because my lover thinks that Lestat (Tom Cruise style) was so perfect. Puke! However, after looking at the cover, reading the back..I decided to let Anne tell me a story without the ego-vamp. And I LOVED IT. Pandora was a wonderful story that didn't grind against my nerves. Because of Pandora I have read all the novels by Anne Rice except for a few. And, of course, Interview With a Vampire.....don't think I'll ever be able to stomach that one. Definitely read Pandora...and I have a feeling that the "new" chronicles of the Dark Ones will continue to entertain me.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Her detail shocked me with the power of her diction was awesome! I really enjoyed it and recommend it to all the Rice fans out there!
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Summary: Why is this woman still writing?
Review: Another clumsy attempt at a novel by a gifted but immensely lazy writer. Of course there are beautifully worded passages, and wonderful details about ancient Rome - but a story - what story? There is nothing new here. We have read this story, much better told in her earlier works. Everything is off, the pacing, what she details and what she skips, all carelessly thrown on the page. There is nothing more she has to say about her vampires and she should just have done with it already.
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Summary: Historically enthralling
Review: Pandora was my first Anne Rice book and I couldn't put it down. Although, I was confused in the beginning (throughout the first 75 pages I felt I was missing some part of the story or that I should have read the other chronicles first), once I understood what was going on, I was captivated. Rice's diction is superb. Her descriptions of Roman classical culture and of the religious cult of Isis are fantastic. However, most of the book was dedicated to this, not a vampire story. Pandora is mostly the story of Pandora's mortal life. I was left feeling dissappointed at the end. Rice rushed through the last 1500 years of Pandora's life, adding little insight into Pandora's life or even historical fact. Overall, I enjoyed Pandora and I have a new interest in Classical culture. I plan to read the original Vampire Chronicles next.
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Summary: Amazingly intriguing
Review: This was my first and favorite Anne Rice book. She has made me a fan for life with this one! Beautifly haunting detail with hints of history, just amazing. I cant seem to put it down! The more i read the more i see myself in her writing, its positivly beautiful. Her best ever.
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Summary: Where's the thrill??
Review: After finishing ALL her books couldnt wait for this series. So disappointed, Who is David? DidI miss something. Not too thrilled with Marius either.Couldn't get the point of the King & Queen, what's turns them on? Too many years in her life are missing to keep context flowing. I miss New Orleans scene
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Summary: A Dud Again
Review: Anne is writing cardboard vampire characters. As a Rice enthusiast who's read everything she's written, it has been all downhill since TALTOS. Rice fans who give this book rave reviews are engaging in wishful thinking. VIOLIN I excused as an experiment in a new genre, but PANDORA is inexcusable in all but an aspiring novelist seeking to be published. Shame on you, Publishing World, that put this synopsis of a could-be great novel out and at the same time refuse to take a chance on the better writing of never-before-published novelists! To Rice readers I say: Even though we adore the earlier Rice for great non-vampiric works such as CRY TO HEAVEN and FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, don't let that blind your critical eye to the fact this is thin gruel to the hardy Rice novels we used to devour. PANDORA could have been a great story, but it is not; it is bare bones. And if the disappointed Rice fan wants to still laud it for its treatment of Roman history, a better job can be had for the money reading Margaret George's THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA--a gripping, thickly textured rendering of a queenly character and along with it, learn more about the cult of Isis and the ancient world. Why do I continue to read Rice like so many others? On the chance, growing ever slimmer, that the embers of the former firey plots and passionate characters will be revived. A book a year just isn't long enough to produce an unflawed, fully wrought novel. I regret to report that Rice is producing pulp. Everyone knows it, but loyalists won't admit it.
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