This is gonna be easy: Bollocks.Long-winded, convoluted, meandering, unnecessary, “me-too” bollocks at that. I can only surmise that the people quoted at length on the back cover, who really ought to know better, have been blinded by the dazzling array of ancient scholars poets and painters mentione...
An interesting melange of The Secret History, Da Vinci Code and The Name of the Rose. A book contains secrets, some college students are studying it, crooked college politics and murder affect events.
Four stars after all those status updates! But even though I didn't like the narrator, or his philosophy, the other characters had some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes and the plot was just insane enough to be fun, especially for the more literary style of the writing. Went with the sub...
I bought this book after reading the rave reviews that it recieved and I was disappointed. One review compared it in part to Donna Tartt's The Secret History whilst another compared it to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose which led me to wonder if these critics had even read these books. This book...
Interesting book. None of the characters really appealed that much to me & the ending seems a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book which has a tendency to drag the story along a bit too slow. That said, the story was quite fascinating and the integration of history, philosophy, math etc was v...
I know that one of the reasons I responded positively to this was because it reminded me of reading Umberto Eco in college. This book suffers from the fact that it was marketed as an intellectual thriller when it simply should've been targeted towards those afflicted with college nostalgia. This has...
I had such high hopes for this book.It had loads of potential which was why I was overly disappointed after reading the first 200 something pages of this book.I was actually surprised I even reached 200 pages.Reading this felt like watching one of those Filipino soap operas that drags on and on with...
I read the synopsis and thought, hmm a different plot and got some review of saying move over Robert Langdon or something. Got bored with this one, I totally forgot what this book was about. The writing style is too ordinary. The story didn't pick up quick and bored me with some things that I am not...
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