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Title: I, Strahd : The Memoirs of a Vampire by P. N. Elrod ISBN: 0-7869-0175-6 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I like this history better
Comment: This book, the first RL novel to stray from the number order as a stand-alone (only its sequel and Tales of Ravenloft are exempt as well), and the only RL book to be in hardcover, is the paragon of the series. It is what every other book should measure itself against in quality.
Finally, even though it is the umpteenth time we've received Count Strahd Von Zarovich's history, this one tops them all! Even though it seems a stark contrast to the savage killing machine featured in Vampire of the Mists, Knight of the Black Rose, and the RL game products, the Strahd in this book is the one I've come to appreciate the most.
The story, presented as Dr. Rudolph Van Richten reads it himself, is enveloping and well-executed. The way Strahd claims it really happened is greatly different from other accounts, but you really forget those as you read it. This is perhaps the best RL book (close race with Scholar of Decay), and an enthralling read. My only complaints: the chapters were lengthy to the extreme and the occasional illustration was unnecessary.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's a good read but don't get carried away!
Comment: I really liked P.N. Elrod's style and well developed imagination and intelligence. Strahd is not some stupid archetypal vampire (re: his portrayal in Knight of the Black Rose). Despite the slow start, the novel picked up as emotions raged in Strahd. Elrod's linguistics are very developed: fluid, rich and demanding. I haven't read many Ravenloft novels (four), but this and it's sequel are probably the best you'll find. But I can't agree with the five stars flying all around about this book. There are some very good authors out there and you should give them a shot over a novel that was designed over a campaign world the author had no hand in shaping outside of this novel. Elrod has done her best, writing as good as anyone else I'm sure, but she was doomed at the start (although I'm not sure she could have written anything better), because she wasn't given a freedom that may have brought this novel to a deserved 5-star rating.
Rating: 1
Summary: an unfortunate disapointment
Comment: after all the hearings from the readers around me, I got the book and read. But from the beginning I was out of the world of the book, and the way the story was told confused me totally... The characters are not really established and they were like being observed by total strangers...
it could be written better.. something is missing..
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Title: I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin by P. N. Elrod ISBN: 0786907541 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Spectre of the Black Rose (Ravenloft Terror of Lord Soth, Vol. 2) by James Lowder, Voronica Whitney-Robinson ISBN: 0786913339 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Knight of the Black Rose (Ravenloft Terror of Lord Soth, Vol. 1) by James Lowder ISBN: 1560761563 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Vampire of the Mists (Ravenloft Books) by Christie Golden ISBN: 1560761555 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dance of the Dead (Ravenloft Books) by Christie Golden, Clyde Caldwell ISBN: 1560763523 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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