The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

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Anonymous user recommends The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, "OK, maybe I am biased, by being Romanian and having had enough of fictitious vampire stories. I made an effort to read this book, and I did finish it. (see more) And it's a mistery to me how people would find this book interesting..it is bland, boring and does not deliver. For a book pretending to tell a (very long) story of a great historical personality like Vlad Tepes, it falls short at exactly the subject implied in the title: history. Test failed!"
tessac recommends Freedom and Necessity by Steven and Bull Brust Emma, "Freedom & Necessity is epistolic in nature so if that appealed to you in The Historian, I heartily recommend F & N. There are no vampires but, like The (see more) Historian, the fantastical is subtly woven into the story."
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Jodyreadseverything recommends Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron by Tom Holland, "I've just started reading The Vampyre but right from the start it put me in mind of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. Lord Byron is used as the main (see more) character in Tom Holland's The Vampyre to interesting effect while count Dracula is the more traditional vampire hero in Kostova's Historian."
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