Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires, Book 1)
by Anne Rice
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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give cons...more
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give cons...more
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Fantasy, Horror fans
Pandora is the first of the two New Tales of the Vampires, the second being Vittorio. We've met Pandora in the Vampire Chronicles as one of the ancients, and alas, this is her story.
Pandora is a patrician from ancient Rome during the time of Augustus. Her father is a Senator, and she is well educated and literate. Rice brings her laudable talent of recreating distant times and places to bear on this wonderful addition to her vampire catalogue. Pre-Christian Rome operated under an entirely di...more
Pandora is a patrician from ancient Rome during the time of Augustus. Her father is a Senator, and she is well educated and literate. Rice brings her laudable talent of recreating distant times and places to bear on this wonderful addition to her vampire catalogue. Pre-Christian Rome operated under an entirely di...more
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Read in August, 2005
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Wow! I was literally swept off my feet by this book. You are immediately drawn in to a story that is so vivid and exciting you will not want to put the book down until you are done.
Oh, how I love history. From Ancient Egypt, to the Roman Empires and Greek Mythology. It is just beautiful. Anne Rice is a great Historical storyteller. She obviously does meticulous research, and she takes her knowledge and spins a mesmerizing tale of olden times, when people lived life, just for the sake of livi...more
Oh, how I love history. From Ancient Egypt, to the Roman Empires and Greek Mythology. It is just beautiful. Anne Rice is a great Historical storyteller. She obviously does meticulous research, and she takes her knowledge and spins a mesmerizing tale of olden times, when people lived life, just for the sake of livi...more
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Read in January, 1999
recommends it for:
anne rice fans
i really liked this book of anne rice's more than the other few that i have read. i like all of the historical accounts of everything that the main character, pandora, lived through. the way that she was able to decribe the landscape in each setting with such accuracy was impressive. sometimes i feel like she goes into almost too much detail in some of her books. not with this one. she gets right into the action and the plot and answers questions the reader might have at a great pace throughtout...more
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En un café del París actual, el vampiro David Talbot invita a Pandora, su igual, a rememorar sus casi 2000 años de existencia. Pandora inicia el relato remontándose a su infancia en el seno de una familia de patricios romanos, para adentrarse luego en su vida adulta, cuando tuvo que huír precipitadamente de Roma y buscar refugio en Antioquía, donde encontró su gran amor en el vampiro Marius, con el que vivió casi 100 años de su larga vida.
Sumamente aburrido este relato de quien pens...more
Sumamente aburrido este relato de quien pens...more
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Read in January, 2004
This is the first and only book I've read by Anne Rice, and from what I've been told, it's not a good representation. It's a good example of what I mean when I say, "You can feel when the wuthor hasn't been there." At times she focused too much on the history and not enough on the moment. It got boring in some parts, and just seemed too blah blah blah. I thought the plot and characters were unbelievable and too... off, like too dramatic or responding to things in an emotional way I don...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
historical fiction
Pandora was excellently written and gave me a glimpse of the Roman Empire I so love. I am having a little bit of difficulty finishing Vittorio, the Vampire. It is also well written, but just doesn't seem to catch my attention like Pandora.
Update 11/12/07:
I finished Vittorio and maybe I just misjudge this one. I think this story may be a little better than Pandora because it shows the conflicts between love and hate; passion and indiffence; good and evil.
Rice's descriptions in bo...more
Update 11/12/07:
I finished Vittorio and maybe I just misjudge this one. I think this story may be a little better than Pandora because it shows the conflicts between love and hate; passion and indiffence; good and evil.
Rice's descriptions in bo...more
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Read in May, 2007
I picked this book from only reason which was it was from Anne Rice so it must be fangy and erotic with hint of philosophical trait. The story of Roman girl (Augustus Caesar days) was turning herself in to the modern french Vampire girl. It was sort of chick lit with slightly mad main character who was dealing with her own eternal life and changes around her. The book was more around searching to find a right place and to understand course of life. Another vampire from the Roman times also appea...more
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Read in May, 1998
Pandora is a fitting name, I felt as if I had opened a Pandora's box when I opened this book, and I wanted to close it so bad but I just couldn't. Anne Rice is a decent story teller, but she relies far too much on sappy romance. The problem with that is the vampire genre doesn't need sappy romance, if readers want that they have Danielle Steele. Vampires are brutal undead creatures that go around killing, and in Anne Rice's world they do kill, but they get all sentimental and Hallmark way to ...more
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Read in December, 2007
I've been through the Anne Rice Vampire phase years ago. This novel seemed like a good one to read again. Alas, I remember why I stopped reading AR. The characters are well defined - the plot interesting. I enjoyed Pandora's / Lydia's background and beginning. However, I drifted and lost interest about 80 pages from the end. It may have been that the climax of the novel ended - it may have been that it seemed like the characters of Marius & Pandora kept analyzing their relationship ad ...more
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Read in July, 2008
I read this book thinking I could renew the charm Anne Rice's writing of the vampire Lestat (and the rest of the series) had on me. Most definitely not the case. I have far surpassed my need for her form of unfettered dramaticism which hugely waters down the plot and basically rendered the remainder of the book uninteresting to me.
Though I think she did an excellent job of introducing Pandora and creating interest in the plight of Marius, I was barely able to stay interested enough to fin...more
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A bit of a let down, as I had read Memnoch before which is a great deal better. Pandora left things unanswered, that I'm not even sure that Rice meant to do... It also rushed through many important events, and the reader is left with the impression that Rice wrote that Pandora was from Ancient Rome in an earlier book, but then found out from research that she hated that period, but had to write about it anyway.
Beautiful, passionate description - although the weakest in the Chronicles.
Beautiful, passionate description - although the weakest in the Chronicles.
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Read in November, 2007
This book seemed to have no interesting plot to speak of. I enjoyed most of the original vampire chronicles, but this story left me cold. I did enjoy Pandora's Roman origins, but even though she does not become a vampire until we are 2/3 of the way through the book, I really didn't become engaged with the character.
It wasn't horrible, but I think I would have better enjoyed re-reading Interview wtV, Lestat, or Queen of the Damned instead.
It wasn't horrible, but I think I would have better enjoyed re-reading Interview wtV, Lestat, or Queen of the Damned instead.
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Anne Rice returns with more of the Vampire Chronicles with her tale of Pandora, one of the earliest female vampires. Very well researched history of early Roman, Greek, and Egyptian civilization and does an excellent job of incorporating her life into this setting. Flows quite well in spite of the history lesson feel about it. However, I began to lose some interest after Pandora is transformed into a vampire (last 100 pages).
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For me, The Vampire Chronicles are the be-all-end-all of vampire novels. And while I have my favorites within the series, I find myself comparing every other vampire novel I read to the entire set. So, if you want to discuss them, go ahead and send me a note. And if you're new to the vampire genre, you can't go wrong with Anne Rice.
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Read in January, 2005
This book is really romantic in a dark sort of way. Again, it's the relationship between the characters that really drew me in. It's like the romance between Pandora and Marius that is quite interesting..and then the adventure that entails after her change and what she does..and how she looks at the world differently.
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I've heard alot of positive things about Anne Rice. This book did not live up to any expectations I had. I ended up skimming through it. Very boring journal type book of Pandora.
I won't count this author out, but I'll wait for a recomendation before I try picking one out on my own. Any suggestions?
I won't count this author out, but I'll wait for a recomendation before I try picking one out on my own. Any suggestions?
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Read in August, 2005
Beautiful descriptions and finally a woman in the main focus. Pandora is intelligent, strong and passionate woman who's love story with Marius is tainted with sadness. What comes to the plot, it's not as interesting as the first two ones but as a single book Pandora is yet again very compelling to me.
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
Teenagers, mostly
This book was not only a waste of my money but a waste of paper. Really, it's even a bigger screwup than Armand's book; every opportunity to describe a strong, interesting, rich character Anne described Pandora as has been blown to pieces in this book and left me with a great disappointment.
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Since most of Anne Rice's book are written about the love of male vampires with one another so it was rather refreshing to read a book of hers about a female vampire and her life's story. The beautiful begining in a Roman household and her love of the color red...nicely done and a good read.
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