This is the first book I've finished in my Moby Dick reading challenge - to read at least 12 books in the next few months with some connection to Moby Dick, which I'm currently reading. The opening lines immediately recall those of Moby Dick: "We could call him Ishmael, but in truth his name is Coy....
The Painter of Battles lives in a lighthouse, painting a mural of scenes of famous battles intermixed with personal horror from his own experiences. He is alone, until he is visited by a man from his past who comes to make him think about his life and his role in the atrocities that he experienced a...
A page-turner set in the seamier part of the book trade. I enjoyed this very much, for both of the threads (a Three Musketeers manuscript that seems somehow to be generating characters from that novel(!), and a bibliographical mystery surrounding a volume purporting to allow the summoning of the dev...
the protagonist Corso is a lot of fun. a shady, efficient, highly intelligent, deeply contemptuous, globe-trotting purveyor of literature from antiquity - the gumshoe transformed into book detective. he is perhaps the most enjoyable part of the novel and it is a pleasure (although a familiar one) to...
This is a pretty short book but my main impression is that it could have been even shorter. It was an interesting look at life in 17th century height-of-its-power Spain but that seemed to be main point of the book. The, while very engaging seemed incidental and only took up a small portion of the b...
I actually enjoyed this one to my surprise. Sadly I've never gotten around to reading any other books by this author, and I know I should...For the complete review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_20431146628
Housing Works Bookstore Fair! $1 books! I like Perez-Reverte and it was a buck, even if I have heard less-than-glowing things from Kelly, I'm sure it's worth a look.
Unabridged read by Dave John.Blurb - In The Sun over Breda, Pérez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire, as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda. Fifteen-year-old Íñigo Balboa e...
Work mp3Unabridged, and read by brilliant Simon Vance.Blurbifications - In Purity of Blood, the second novel in the series, the courageous Alatriste is considering rejoining his old regiment to fight in Breda-but his blade leads him to another adventure. A desperate father hires him to rescue his da...
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