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| Anthology (Clan Novel: Vampire the Masquerade) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Stewart Wieck
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 1132390
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1565048768
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781565048768
ASIN: 1565048768
Publication Date: December 11, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Poor. Tell a story, don't try to be an artist. May 29, 2000
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This was a sad book -- sad because the author tried to become William Faulkner and write in stream of consciousness. Unfortunately, unlike Faulkner, it ends up being unintelligible babble. This gets further complicated when the author misuses words (such as using the word "debtor" to indicate the person to whom a debt is owed, rather than the person borrowing). Mistakes like this kill the credibility...
 Poor characters saying poor dialog November 3, 1999
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Basically it's a book to set up the 12-book plot. Only a very few of the mainly peripheral characters are interesting. If you're looking for a better White Wolf vampire novel, try the Masquerade of the Red Death trilogy. I'll admit that there were some good scenes though, but for what was told it should have been cut down to a short story. I'm just hoping the series gets better.
 Good for starters August 12, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
For my $ and a few hours reading, this is a good start to what is quite an epic series about vampires. No doubt, this is not an instant classic, but that's not what I expect from a short pulpy book that's the first of 13. It has character sketches of two Toreadors (one "real" artist and one "poser"), it shows the two main sides of White Wolf's vampire faction (the Camarilla and the Sabbat, and even tosses in some of the independent groups, like Setites) and it gets the action of the series underway (the Eye of Hazimel, the Sabbat attacks, etc.). The sex is not erotic, but these are undead we're talking about. There are some scenes that drag a bit, but there are some interestingly unsettling ones as well (a vampire coming out of frenzy licking dried blood off a road, a vampire kissing a bust he sculpted, etc.). My advise is either expect to read the entire series or don't pick up the first book at all. Judged by itself it may not be what YOU want it to be. But as part of the series, I think it succeeds just fine.
 One of the best series of books ever January 23, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
With only one book out of this great series being less than perfect and highly injoyable, Anthology will hopefully contine this grand tradition. I highly recomend this series and all its books to any who eother enjoy vampires the game or the general vampires of myth. You will be pulled in and held till you finish the set.
Why? July 27, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are a fan of the fictional world created by White Wolf in connection with the role-playing game Vampire the Masquerade and the failed Kindred TV-series, you have probably read the previous books in this series. As the last books in this series are not yet out, I am not giving this book a one star just in case in some way this book serves some function in advancing the thirteen novel series. At first read, this novel is only loosely connected with the other novels.As a stand alone novel, this novel is a complete jumble. While I guess it is supposed to reflect the madness of the Malkavian mind, this does not make for an enjoyable read. Nothing in this book makes sense separate from a vague connection with the previous novels.
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