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| Plot Summary of Pandora |
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"This installment of Rice's New Tales Of The Vampires begins in the 20th century when we meet Pandora, the ancient vampiress and David Talbot, the newly vampire. David is urging Pandora to write her life story, as one tale of many he hopes to collect from their kind. He persuades her to do it and so we return with her to Rome, in the year 15 B.C. Here we learn about her human life and how she first met the boy Marius. She relates how they become separated by circumstances and how they reunite when she is thirty-five. Of course, by this time, Marius is a vampire. This in no way deters Pandora since she has been in love with Marius since she first met him as a child as he has been in love with her. We are shown how it comes about that she becomes a blood drinker and the turbulent life she shared with Marius for the next two hundred years. She is determined to have the answers. Marius is a cynic of the first order, and this, among other things causes their relationship to be rocky and full of turmoil. Eventually they part ways but they never stop loving one another. "
Kim Mills, Resident Scholar
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"Pandora, the main character, becomes a vampire after being made into one by another vampire. She survives attempts on her life and several centuries into the modern era. The novel acts as a fictional biography of Pandora's life."
Daniela Lo Presti, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 25%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 15%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- cynical or dry-wit
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy story on current Earth
Inner Struggle
Yes
Plotlet:
- coping with mental/magical powers
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror story?
Yes
Horror plotlets
- vampires taking a quick bite
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- long lived adults
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- mind reading
- super strength
- can fly
- is very quick
- can read emotions
- healing
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- society
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- killer
- bureaucrat
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- mind reading
- mind control
- super strength
- can fly
- can read emotions
- is very quick
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- almost none
- an above average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Water
- Domed/Underground City
Earth setting:
- 20th century
- general past
- during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- licking
- weird alien sex
- actual description of sex
- description of breasts
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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