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Loading... The Club Dumas (1993)by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
3   BrookeAshley | May 19, 2013 |  Great read! You can read my review of Club Dumas over at my blog (contains some spoilers): http://www.rulethewaves.net/blog/?p=1535 (  ) caffeinatedlife | Apr 26, 2013 | A book seller tries to find out if a manuscript is an original Alexander Dumas. The book was very hard to follow because I had not read the book the 3 Musketeers.It was a push to finish. (  ) dalexander | Apr 5, 2013 | Interesting mystery with lots of twists and turns. Deals with the black arts, mixing of time between present day and 15th century. ( ) Marzia22 | Apr 3, 2013 | I really enjoyed this book. After seeing Johnny Depp in "The Ninth Gate" and finding out that the movie was based on this book I decided to read it. It was better than the movie and had more twists and turns than I could keep track of. Very well written. ( )1 marysneedle | Mar 28, 2013 |
Junak romana, Lukas Korso, je vrstan poznavalac retkih rukopisa i antikvitetnih knjiga. Kad je poznati izdavač i bibliofil pronađen mrtav u svom kabinetu, ispostavlja se da je posedovao rukopis 42. poglavlja Diminog romana Tri musketara. Korso je angažovan da potvrdi autentičnost rukopisa, ali istovremeno za drugog klijenta mora da utvrdi koji je od tri postojeća primerka okultnog priručnika Knjiga o devet vrata u kraljevstvo senki pravi. Neko, međutim, po obrascu književne zbilje otežava Korsovo istraživanje, roman se raslojava na nekoliko nivoa, a glavni junak i čitalac lutaju između dve knjige i tri zapleta, nekoliko ubistava i ljubavnih veza, da bi tek čudno društvo Kluba Dima dovelo do razrešenja. Is contained inHas the adaptation
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Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals."-New York Daily News. Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion. Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.… (more)
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It's difficult to give much information plot-wise about The Club Dumas without spoiling anything, so I'll just say that it involves rare book collectors, The Three Musketeers, books that are portals to the Devil, and five bajillion book references. It's a thriller and mystery for bibliophiles, one of my favorite types of books.
Its only weakness is the ending, something I've found in all of Pérez-Reverte's books. I remember getting to the end of The Flanders Panel and saying, eh? what? He does such a fantastic job weaving a mysterious tale that just pulls you along, and then the endings sort of throw out a solution that isn't wholly satisfying. I think my main issue is that I never really understand the motivations of the villains. I always wonder if something was lost in translation, if Pérez-Reverte just isn't very good at ending things, or if I'm just obtuse.
Despite that, I still think Pérez-Reverte is a magnificent author and I didn't mind reading this again. I would certainly recommend reading The Three Musketeers first to fully enjoy the pervasive references -- if you haven't read it, you need to run, not walk, to your library or bookstore ASAP because there's just no excuse for that!
As a side note, I'd appreciate any recommendations that are in a similar vein (books about books, especially mysteries or thrillers), and if anyone knows what book I was referring to in my first paragraph with the guy in the burning library (it also featured collectors of occult books), I'd love it if you refreshed my memory about its title. (