Miss Prudencia Prim, seeking a new challenge, applies for the role of Librarian in the village of San Ireno de Arnois. Despite the fact that the advertisement specified no qualifications, and the fact that Miss Prim has her fair share of degrees, she is offered the post. She soon discovers that the ...
bookshelves: fraudio, mystery-thriller, books-about-books-and-book-shops Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: vivienne Read in January, 2009 oooh lots of mumbo jumbo and an albino henchman - fab stuff! It seems that I will need to go hunting for a Depp film and that never hurts my eyes. Lucas Corso is...
About 10 pages from the end I found myself wishing it wasn't about to be over. This was a cool book! A very detached, abstract mystery with a mathematical theme.
Okay interesting, this is the book that the film "The Ninth Gate" was based on, I prefered the film, the book came across as a bit laboured. Possibly me tho'.
Very enjoyable. I especially liked the Argentine view of England. It would have been even better if the translator had written it with an accent. Perhaps the best would be an audio reading with an Argentinian accent. I tried to do it in my head but kept slipping back into rather banal english.
Three and a half? Four minus?It's good fun for those who love books, and parts of it are quite suspenseful. The ending was unsatisfying, though, and I felt the need to go back and start compiling a list of characters, as it got rather confusing. I would have had a difficult time following the sto...
I've read two of Perez-Reverte's books and have decided that his conclusions or solutions are never as well-done as the road to get to them. Loved the premise of this one and enjoyed journey to the end. The climax and resolution were meh.
As I started reading this, I had an odd sensation that perhaps I'd read it before, because so many of the details seemed familiar... and then I realized that this was the (extremely loose) basis for the Johnny Depp movie The Seventh Gate. That said, please don't look to The Club Dumas for the same ...
I was really hoping to like this book but the writing was terrible. I don't know if its a bad translater or what but I found this book really confusing. I only made it about 15% in before giving up.
The main problem I had with this book is that I found it difficult to believe that the murderer isn’t discovered sooner. It is true that the novel takes place in ‘93, so the police had less gadgets than they have now, but they seem to be rather incompetent even when it comes to the most simple tasks...
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