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...
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'.
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.
Disappointed. That's my review in one word. This book shadowed me for a while. I love Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, and this seemed to pop up in similar company. The story is as follows: This mystery is the story of Coros, a European book expert who is on a two fold mission - to verify the authen...
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...
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