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| Original Title: | Pandora |
| ISBN: | 8466302948 (ISBN13: 9788466302944) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Series: | New Tales of the Vampires #1 |
| Characters: | Marius de Romanus, David Talbot, Pandora |
Anne Rice
Paperback | Pages: 383 pages Rating: 3.76 | 40651 Users | 775 Reviews
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| Title | : | Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires #1) |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
| Published | : | May 2001 by Punto de lectura (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Fantasy. Fiction |
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Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.Rating Out Of Books Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires #1)
Ratings: 3.76 From 40651 Users | 775 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires #1)
Hmmm... I kinda really liked this!Anne Rice is a great historical fiction writer. Telling it through the various voices of her immortals allows reflection and grief as they witness the simultaneous progress/decline of humanity and civilization. Although it's worth mentioning that Pandora doesn't really have a definite conclusion in terms of the on-going search for meaning that tends to exist in all of this author's works. Oh and as always it's absolutely bat-shit crazy but I love it. While maybeI had little curiosity about Pandora from the previous books, but adored this short novel and devoured it in a morning. Pandora herself is an engaging character - brilliant and beautiful, as are all of the main vampires, but well explained and multifaceted, and a fascinating counter to Marius. I was also interesting to see a different side to Marius, who had previously seemed wonderful but near-flawless, a vampire saint who had sublimated his immortality into a vehicle for philosophy, art, the
This was the first Anne Rice book that I read. If Pandora is the first book that you have read by this author, and you are considering making this you first and last Anne Rice book, than I have some advice for you. Don't. I almost gave up on Anne Rice after this but I'm glad that I continued on and read The Vampire Chronicles! Pandora is not horrible but it is not incredible and far from Rice's best work.
Pandora is part of Anne Rices New Tales of the Vampires (although theyre not that new anymore) and there is virtually no difference in writing quality or style from her more popular The Vampire Chronicles. What is different, though, is that we finally see the stories of formerly minor characters who arent really connected to Lestat. Lestat, although he is a very interesting character, does get annoying after a couple of books, so a book from the point of view of Pandora was perfect for me.
It has been a long long time since I read any of Anne Rice's vampire books and I certainly use to have a soft spot for them, willing to overlook problems with them. However this time I find the writing painfully over indulgent in an attempt to make the writing feel intense and then the story jumps along, never stopping for a moment to allow us to take anything in. It boom-boom-booms along, and then the story just stops and we jump centuries in sentences. It feels to me a little that if the story
Look, the stars have all but faded. What is it like to be one of them? To be admired only in the darkness, when men and women live with candles and lamps. To be known and described, only in the heaviness of the night, when all the business of the day has ended!
Oct. 22, 2006: This is really an outstanding story overall. There were very few things that took away from it, and even those didnt bother me that much. Yeah, Pandora is another rich vampire from an aristocratic family. Yeah, Anne Rice said differently when she first mentioned Pandora. Again, that still didnt take away from the story. This book also reinforced my belief that Anne Rice is really at her best when she is writing historical fiction. The way she brought ancient Rome to life was
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