false 31342 25 Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with <I>Pandora</I>, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, <I>Vittorio</I>, is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books.<p> Rice has called <I>Vittorio</I> her vampire version of <I>Romeo and Juliet</I>. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to <I>Vittorio</I> what New Orleans is to <I>Interview with the Vampire</I>.<p> One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula's ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure. <p> Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to sacrifice its young to Lord Florian's vampire horde. Vittorio is bent on revenge as he invades the eerie Court of the Ruby Grail (i.e. blood), as angry with the child-sacrificing humans as he is with Florian's fang gangsters. Torn between lust, murderous rage, and vampire thirst, Vittorio is one interestingly troubled soul.<p> Rice urges readers to enter Vittorio's world by reading the sources she embroiders, <I>Fra Filippo Lippi</I> and <I>Public Life in Renaissance Florence</I>, and to get a feel for the scary communion Vittorio sees in the Court of the Ruby Grail by listening to <I>All Souls' Vespers</I>. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 2926086 1999 Vittorio: The Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires, #2) total:4027|5:25|4:23|3:46|2:17|1:4| 4027 13488 5408 98 1 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Mar 17 09:03:37 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:04:37 -0700 2008
Early Anne Rice novels, the first Lestat books in particular, carried you along in wonderment at a new view of the world, but that wond...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Aug 05 09:23:53 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:24:32 -0700 2009
Une existence dorée qui lui permet de bénéficier de tous les attraits de la renaissance italienne, jusqu'au jour où sa famille est massacrÃ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 14 13:26:41 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 13:35:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:38:59 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 06:36:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 16:39:07 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 17 08:24:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:42:14 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:45:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Dec 03 12:29:22 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 07 12:05:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 02 00:09:48 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 00:14:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 15:24:57 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 10:01:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 01 15:54:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 15:56:07 -0800 2009 1 The writing was full of colorful images and characters.
Great read.]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Fri Nov 06 07:38:32 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:40:28 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 18 19:27:54 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 20:04:46 -0700 2009 kind of like romeo and juliet with fangs@! not the best, but good.]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 29 23:41:42 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 23:45:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Jan 13 12:36:44 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 12:39:17 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 17:42:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 13:26:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 24 09:58:25 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 10:01:37 -0700 2009 5 0 false true Fri Mar 13 21:48:57 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 21:50:05 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue May 26 08:01:20 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:02:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Dec 11 21:00:22 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 21:03:23 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:07:58 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 08:43:04 -0700 2009
Easy read.]]>