• Vittorio the Vampire

  • By: Anne Rice
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
  • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (326 ratings)

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Vittorio the Vampire

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
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Publisher's summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures—a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.

In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.

Against a backdrop of the wonders—both sacred and profane—and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

©1999 Anne O'Brien Rice (P)1999 Random House, Inc.

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great book, terrible recording

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great story line by Anne rice

How did the narrator detract from the book?

there were LOTS of skips. and the narrator stumbled over many words. poor editing.

Was Vittorio the Vampire worth the listening time?

great book

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Bad Audio Quality

A good story. The narrator has a nice voice, but the audio quality is garbage- like it was taped from down the hall or something. It also skips at random.

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wrong performer

readers voice has the pleasantness of Larry King and the enthusiasm of Ben Stein. wrong performer to read the voice of a 16 yr old boy.

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Good story, Awful recording

The story is good. The audio was awful. It kept skipping and repeating. Sometimes it sounds like he is reading under water. It should be removed and fixed.

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Bad copy job

This was obviously originally a book on tape... did a bad job making the file lots of repeats

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Great Story, Bad Recording.

The story is actually great but the narrator's voice, while not bad, is just not right for a 16 year old boy's voice. He is talented and does great on some of the other male characters but the fact is the main character is supposed to be 16 years old. That is the most charitable I can be about this as a whole.
Sounds garbled, like it was taken directly from one of those old school "cassettes on tape." The worst thing is the editing! It repeats and even skips words throughout the whole book (maybe at the points when the cassette tape was supposed to be turned over? Not sure but it's bad!)
Sounds fuzzier and fuzzier as you go. I was hoping it was going to be a couple small issues that would improve but nope-It just got worse.
Very disappointing. This should be updated and the new one should be given to people that have already paid for this awful version. I can't believe Anne Rice would approve of her material being butchered in this way. The story itself is good but this version of it is not! As I said before, Very disappointed😕

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Needs an update

The story itself was good and enjoyable, but it was obvious that this was originally recorded on tape. The audio was a bit fuzzy, the editing was spotty (narrator would repeat lines, or skip), and around the last few chapters, it began to sound further away, and a bit muffled. The narrator himself wasn’t bad overall though.

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really really good

didn't like it at first but turned out to be really really good story definitely recommend it

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Not Anne's best work

I suppose it's just because it's more religiously geared (Think Memnoch the Devil). It is an interesting story, but wraps up quite abruptly. My biggest pet peeve about this is the recording quality which was fair to poor at some points. Leaving me to adjust the bass on my stereo more often than I expected. Also, the reader chosen as the narrator does not fit the supposed age claimed by him. In short, I liked it alright, but the reader was not believable.

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Not Anne’s best

The book is boring and feels like it was pushed out with no real purpose. The narration is horrible and is very poor quality.

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