The Historian
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780641811685 (0641811683)
Publish date: June 14th 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 656
Edition language: English
Slow, but worth the trip for the library! I expect fans of might like it. It has that same kind of measured, stately pacing. It can be thrilling, mind, but it isn't zippy. I love to read these big old doorstops sometimes.Library copy
This is an intense book. It took me about three months to finish, partly because it is very long, but also because it requires a decent amount of mental effort to read. It is not a book that you want to read after a long day. You really have to be in the right mood. But when you are in the right moo...
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova, author; Joanne Whalley, Dennis Boutsikaris, Rosalyn Landor, Martin Jarvis, Robin Atkin Downes, Jim Ward, narrators Does Vlad Tepes, Count Dracula still live? That is the subject of this book. The reader will travel all over the world with the characters as the searc...
If you've seen my updates, you'll probably remember that I was pretty excited about this book back at the beginning. Unfortunately, that excitement didn't continue through to the end. This book was 704 pages long. The story was probably worthy of 50% of that length. It had its positives - the...
What a surprisingly great read! Much different than my normal book but I enjoyed every minute.