The Dante Club
by:
Matthew Pearl (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781587244650 (1587244659)
Publish date: August 1st 2003
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Pages no: 615
Edition language: English
Category:
Writing,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
This book sounded like it would appeal to me for several reasons. It's a mix of genres--historical fiction and mystery--like two favorite books of mine, The Alienist and The Name of the Rose. Like The Alienist, it incorporates real historical figures; like The Name of the Rose it involves connection...
Hm. Not sure where to go with this review. I'll start off by saying I liked this book. A lot. So much so that I picked up Matthew Pearl's next two books (The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens) and have them sitting on my HUGE to-read pile. This is probably one of the biggest compliments I can give an ...
Bad. Just...bad.
I really liked this book! It was hard for me, because so many characters are introduced in the first part of the book, it was difficult for me to keep them all straight. So, I started over, with a cheat sheet and then I could follow the story.This book requires some effort from the reader, but it'...
Isn't it hilarious - I had to ABANDON this. Just a 100 pages short of the finish but I could not do it. John Kurtz, the chief of Boston police, breathed in some of his heft for a better fit between the two chambermaids.The first part of this is much the same as chewing on a brick and trying to make ...
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