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Title: Pandora's Box
ISBN: 0671743279
Author:
Elizabeth Gage
Publicate Date: 1996-12
Publish: 1996-12
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: My favorite book
I read this book and loved it. For me it was not a long book at all, even being 714 or so pages long . I loaned it to a friend and never got it back,but thru' the years I have always reflected upon reading when discussing books, so I decided to get another copy of it. It is my #1 book following Flowers For Algernon, and Just Say No.
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2: Pandora's Box
Elizabeth Gage's "Pandora's Box" is the book that I found very difficult to put down even though I knew very soon that it was not a timeless masterpiece that deserves Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is crowded with many characters, and it is easy to get lost among them. Some of them are simply un-realistic and their actions don't follow any logic. But it is a stylish and entertaining book that made me follow its three main characters with the interest. The 600 pages romance re-tells the ancient myth about Pandora, "a beautiful evil", "All-gifted" perfect woman desirable by every man because all the Olympians gave her a gift. Pandora was sent to Earth with the box containing all the world's evils which Gods forbade her to open. She was curious and opened it once releasing these evils, but closed the lid before Hope could escape. Gage's romance depicts many of the evils that have ruled the world of humans since Pandora let them out thousands of years ago. There are political intrigues, pathological jealousy, and cold calculation, pure evil that would ruin lives, break the sweetest dreams, and literally walk over dead bodies. But like in the myth of Pandora while there is life, there is hope which lives in the talent that creates not destroys and in love that is above the politics, power, and even death itself.
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3: eloquent narration
i am more impressed by the narration of this book. with fluidity and eloquence, Gage manages to build up a thorough characterisation of each major persona as well as the morbid atmosphere of overwhelming doom and fate.
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4: Awesome!
I checked this book out at the library a year ago and once I finally read it I have been searching everywhere for it. It was the best book I have ever read. Ms. Gage has a wonderful talent in storytelling. I agree with another review that it does start out confusing but DO NOT give up on it!!! This book delivers romance, mystery, you name it. I felt like I personally knew all of the characters. Never before has a book come to life the way this one did for me. You will feel the pains and the joys of every character you meet. I cried and laughed with them through it all. I recommend this book to anyone! Buy it!
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5: Magnificent
I read this book probably more than 10 years ago. I loved the characters and the story. I could not put it down. When the story I ended, I actually missed it.
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