Everyone in this book is just so gosh darn likable. Our hero Clay is witty young and tech savy, but appreciates the old school. Even the villains aren't so bad. I was a little bored at times, but enjoyed what I felt was a look at book snobbery at its best. We all look down on each other for whateve...
This book had me at the glow-in-the-dark cover! A very entertaining read, chock-full of lovable geeks and quirky bibliophiles. I’m glad the puzzle was solved ultimately, not by the Google tech-machine, but by the ingenuity and heart of the main character. Extra points for the typography discussion...
27/06 - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is about a bookstore and the slightly fantastical people who frequent it, for either work or pleasure. There's a secret society that funds it and keeps it going in the background, and to start with I thought there was going to be some actual magic worked int...
I was really hopeful about this book. I expected a cross between Rivers of London and Douglas Coupland set in a book shop; or Scarlett Thomas and Douglas Coupland set in a book shop; instead, it's a cross between Dan Brown and somebody who admires Douglas Coupland, also there's a book shop. It sta...
If J.J. Abrams had a book store it would be Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour bookstore, a quirky place that really has no interest in selling any books. There are a few books that the general populous might like but all of them are used and none of them are current. Instead there is a large section of beautif...
27/06 - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is about a bookstore and the slightly fantastical people who frequent it, for either work or pleasure. There's a secret society that funds it and keeps it going in the background, and to start with I thought there was going to be some actual magic worked int...
“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”Quirky, geeky and genuinely funny. A mystery of a secret society involving codes, ancient history and books. Endless stacks and piles of books. You could perhaps descr...
Authors are magicians. I was in the early pages of Mr. Penumbra when I realized that Sloan was sneaking in a major chain of events in only a few short paragraphs with the intention of moving the story to where he needed it. It was the authorial equivalent of "look, nothing up my sleeve" in preparati...
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