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Pandora (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Anne Rice (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 9 hours and 30 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Books on Tape
  • Audible Release Date: 13 Oct 2000
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ6TIQ
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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Pandora is the first in a 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 2,000 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 through the ages.

Pandora carries you back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, where she meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. She is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. You then 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.

Pandora is Volume 1 of The New Tales of the Vampires.

©1998 by Anne O'Brien Rice; (P)1998 by Random House, Inc.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
sheer pleasure 29 Nov 2002
Format:Paperback
From the first page,and with exquisite narrative Anne Rice brings Pandora to life in your mind in full blown technocolour.
The chapter of her early life with her father,takes you all the way to how every day life was for ancient Romans.with even the trivial and mundane bringing colour and poetry to her remarkable quest for life.
I won`t dwell on the plots or sub-plots but to the reader,if you have read the queen of the dammed and noticed Pandora. then this book is essential reading.This story gives to vampires what Shelleys Frankenstein gives to `monsters` a simple love but pure poetry.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A FASCINATING BOOK 1 Aug 2010
By Eleni TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
I bought this book around the time it was first published, at the airport to keep me awake during a 4 hour flight and I could not sleep until I finished it a long time after my plane had landed. I had not read any of Rice's books before and it was this extraordinary book that got me hooked.

It tells the story of ancient patrician roman Pandora who is turned into a vampire by her lover Marius, stays with him in Antioch, helping him care for Those Who Must be Kept and survives to narrate her story to David Talbot, in Paris, more then a millennium after her creation. Anne Rice portrays a woman who is a product of her time and is strong, intelligent and indipendant. Her character is very well developed and convincing, as is her time. Through Pandora's eyes we see a very vivid and well researched presentation of Ancient Roman society; we see historical events that effected Pandora and also significant people whom she loved like Ovid, indeed it was her love for Ovid that made me like her from the beginning.

Pandora is also a major character in The Queen of the Damned: The Third Book in the Chronicles of the Vampires (Vampire Chronicles). Also her relationship with Marius and the events in Rome and Antioch are seen through his point of view in Blood And Gold: The Vampire Marius (Vampire Chronicles 08), which I think is the best of Anne Rice's vampire novels.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A great vampire book. 18 Feb 2001
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A vampire book that you will certainly read it more than once. The vampire Pandora is interviewed and she tells the enchanting story of her life. Anne Rice, beatifully describes Pandora's life in ancient Rome, Antioch, and her entrance in the vampire world. The great love story Pandora has with Marius, an old vampire that loved her since she was a little girl. I hightly recommend this book. It is going to amaze you. Believe me, you won't get any sleep until you finish it!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Nice Book :)
Having read all of the previous books to this one, I enjoyed reading this and liked the way it filled the gaps in some of the previous stories. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Azariah
Not one of Rice's better vampire novels
I loved the Vampire Chronicles and also liked the other "New Tales of the Vampires" novel (Vittorio) but I was disappointed with Pandora as the book only really told of her life... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Saetana
very little vampire and more history
Reading is the art of obtaining knowledge without knowing it.

At first, I must say that I found joy in the fact that I knew about some historical incidents and figures... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Rebecca
A great read
I am surprised that this book has received any bad reviews! I have read all of Anne Rice's novels and Pandora sticks out in my mind as one of the best. Read more
Published on 29 April 2010 by N. Fisher
disappointing
started off promising but got ridiculous. a let down. please do not bother with this book.
Published on 28 Mar 2009 by kilo
dissapointing
i have been hooked to some of the previous vampire chronicles but this was hard to read and dull. anne rice can get it so right some times like the first of the lasher books was... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by J. Pickles
a great read
Pandora is my favourite from Anne rice by far, the way this book has been written with so much detail to everything you find it so easy to picture the characters the history. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2008 by L. dilloway
The Vampire Pandora
In this book Ms. Rice has Pandora write her history in the blank pages of a note book at the persuasion of David Talbot. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2007 by M. A. Ramos
One of the best
I read this book many years ago, and I still find it to be one of the most fascinating and informative Anne Rice books. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2006 by Ms Mary
Boring beyond belief!
I have never been a fan of Anne Rice as I find her to be extremely overrated and incredibly dull! However I have read a few of her book (despite it taking me so long due to little... Read more
Published on 26 July 2006 by A Reader
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