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US Mall 1 - Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
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List Price: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375411991
Format: Roughcut
ISBN: 0375411992
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2002-10-29
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 2002-10-29
Studio: Knopf
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Summary: had hopes too high
Comment: I followed annes works*VC basically* and loved every book but this one was a HUGE let down.
I just had my hopes too high but I wont repeat what the other negative reviews say b/c its the same thing.
It was SO bad that I didnt have the heart to donate it. For now, I just use it as a paperweight.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The only thing that sucked was the book!
Comment: I will endeavour to put my disappointment in this book into words.
In my opinion Anne Rice seems to have no direction to her writing of the New Vampire Chronicles, it is the only conclusion I can make. I kept reading them hoping against hope that after such a long time between the original series and the current one, she just need time to get herself fully immersed in that world again. However, this book just blew that grace period out the water and confirms what I have suspected for a long time; this new series is junk.
I cannot believe I wasted good money on this book; the central character (Quinn Blackwood) is a spineless fop who forns over his grandmother (there was a ridiculously lengthy description of her) and has the really annoying habit of falling in love with anything that moves. His character is not even remotely interesting. The only character that may, I repeat, MAY have saved this plot-starved book was the fact that Lestat made a return. However his character is so completely watered down and absent for most of the book that it really was not worth including him in this tale at all.
The bottom line with this book is that it has little to no direction and what plot it did achieve never paid off in the end, weak new characters, original characters that were completely underused, rambling lengthy descriptions that have no point to them, and a complete waste of my time.
This was the last book I bought in the new Vampire Chronicles; I'll stick to the originals.
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
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Summary: I adored this book.
Comment: This is my first Anne Rice book, so I don't have anything to compare the story with. I bought Interview with the Vampire and tried to read it a couple of times and was having trouble getting into it (although I wil definitely give it another try now). When I bought Blackwood Farm, I didn't realize that it was part of The Vampire Chronicles. The Entertainment Weekly quote on the front about it being a ghost story was what attracted me.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much. I absolutely fell in love with all the characters and I loved the story Quinn had to tell. I am a huge Stephen King fan, and I read a lot of Alice Hoffman and things of her ilk, as well as any memoir I can get my hands on. Something about this book was just so enjoyable to read. It was very different from my norm, but I am so anxious to read more about Quinn, Mona, and the Mayfair witches, as well as the earlier Vampire books, that I only wish there were more hours in a day to read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great addition to legacy of the Vampire Lestat
Comment: Story: Its a pretty good story. I wish there were more action and fights between the vampires. But its great to see the interaction between Ann Rice's Mayfair witch books and Vampire chronicle books. Its a great addition to the other vampire books. But it doesn't surpass any of the previous books.
Characters: Lestat as always is my favorite vampire character. Its about time that Lestat finds someone who loves him back.
I hope the next Lestat book will have more action and drama in it like vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned books. They were the best of Ann Rice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ingenious
Comment: Let me start out by saying I am not going to tell the story that Anne wrote for this book. But believe me when I tell you it was ingenious. Anne has a knack for ripples of frission which she incorporates into her stories. One her best examples of this is in here second book "Feast of All Saints." There a young boy wakes up to a man in the bedroom of his first love. Frission is actually an understatemt oh how well Anne conjures this scene.
Anne also has a way to leave purportedly important questions asked of the reader unanswered. This is another knack she has and I am going to post my answer to one of those unanswered questions from her book. That is "why is Tarquin always referred to as little?" Tarquin is puzzled why he is referred to that way by others being that he is seventeen six foot four and growing. He has a hunch why but he doesn't really know. The reader is invited to supply a answer as well.
Anne's favorite Dicken's story in this work is his "The Old Curiosity Shop." The central character in that work is Little Nell. So I believe this gives the reader the answer to Tarquin's question. Well because Anne you been reading about Little Nell. But that is the beauty of this novel. The reader is asked to participate in a character's resolvement of confusion many times.
Anne uses another device in this work posing to the reader the true meaning of egregious. Well she and I do not agree on how she used the word often. She asks us to identify where we find egregiousness in the story. Her characters only get it half right half the time. Remember though Anne is playful in this work and that is why I give this her five stars.
Well done Anne.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: had hopes too high
Comment: I followed annes works*VC basically* and loved every book but this one was a HUGE let down.
I just had my hopes too high but I wont repeat what the other negative reviews say b/c its the same thing.
It was SO bad that I didnt have the heart to donate it. For now, I just use it as a paperweight.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The only thing that sucked was the book!
Comment: I will endeavour to put my disappointment in this book into words.
In my opinion Anne Rice seems to have no direction to her writing of the New Vampire Chronicles, it is the only conclusion I can make. I kept reading them hoping against hope that after such a long time between the original series and the current one, she just need time to get herself fully immersed in that world again. However, this book just blew that grace period out the water and confirms what I have suspected for a long time; this new series is junk.
I cannot believe I wasted good money on this book; the central character (Quinn Blackwood) is a spineless fop who forns over his grandmother (there was a ridiculously lengthy description of her) and has the really annoying habit of falling in love with anything that moves. His character is not even remotely interesting. The only character that may, I repeat, MAY have saved this plot-starved book was the fact that Lestat made a return. However his character is so completely watered down and absent for most of the book that it really was not worth including him in this tale at all.
The bottom line with this book is that it has little to no direction and what plot it did achieve never paid off in the end, weak new characters, original characters that were completely underused, rambling lengthy descriptions that have no point to them, and a complete waste of my time.
This was the last book I bought in the new Vampire Chronicles; I'll stick to the originals.
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)
Customer Rating:
Summary: I adored this book.
Comment: This is my first Anne Rice book, so I don't have anything to compare the story with. I bought Interview with the Vampire and tried to read it a couple of times and was having trouble getting into it (although I wil definitely give it another try now). When I bought Blackwood Farm, I didn't realize that it was part of The Vampire Chronicles. The Entertainment Weekly quote on the front about it being a ghost story was what attracted me.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much. I absolutely fell in love with all the characters and I loved the story Quinn had to tell. I am a huge Stephen King fan, and I read a lot of Alice Hoffman and things of her ilk, as well as any memoir I can get my hands on. Something about this book was just so enjoyable to read. It was very different from my norm, but I am so anxious to read more about Quinn, Mona, and the Mayfair witches, as well as the earlier Vampire books, that I only wish there were more hours in a day to read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great addition to legacy of the Vampire Lestat
Comment: Story: Its a pretty good story. I wish there were more action and fights between the vampires. But its great to see the interaction between Ann Rice's Mayfair witch books and Vampire chronicle books. Its a great addition to the other vampire books. But it doesn't surpass any of the previous books.
Characters: Lestat as always is my favorite vampire character. Its about time that Lestat finds someone who loves him back.
I hope the next Lestat book will have more action and drama in it like vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned books. They were the best of Ann Rice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ingenious
Comment: Let me start out by saying I am not going to tell the story that Anne wrote for this book. But believe me when I tell you it was ingenious. Anne has a knack for ripples of frission which she incorporates into her stories. One her best examples of this is in here second book "Feast of All Saints." There a young boy wakes up to a man in the bedroom of his first love. Frission is actually an understatemt oh how well Anne conjures this scene.
Anne also has a way to leave purportedly important questions asked of the reader unanswered. This is another knack she has and I am going to post my answer to one of those unanswered questions from her book. That is "why is Tarquin always referred to as little?" Tarquin is puzzled why he is referred to that way by others being that he is seventeen six foot four and growing. He has a hunch why but he doesn't really know. The reader is invited to supply a answer as well.
Anne's favorite Dicken's story in this work is his "The Old Curiosity Shop." The central character in that work is Little Nell. So I believe this gives the reader the answer to Tarquin's question. Well because Anne you been reading about Little Nell. But that is the beauty of this novel. The reader is asked to participate in a character's resolvement of confusion many times.
Anne uses another device in this work posing to the reader the true meaning of egregious. Well she and I do not agree on how she used the word often. She asks us to identify where we find egregiousness in the story. Her characters only get it half right half the time. Remember though Anne is playful in this work and that is why I give this her five stars.
Well done Anne.
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