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Unread books (115) » 14 more Books Read in 2018 (319) Books Read in 2020 (890) KayStJ's to-read list (626) Book Hoppers (4) Unreliable Narrators (97) Secret Histories (8) Best of World Literature (267) No current Talk conversations about this book. History, sex, demonology, old Europe, murder, and most importantly book are blended together by Pérex-Reverte into a seemlessly rollicking and engaging story. Our protagonist, Lucas Corso, a shameless and conniving book dealer (though his true profession is nothing as simple as that) is an everyman character - wandering down a path at the behest of another "greater" person - until the final chapters. Taking both narratives in hand as the reality of the situation becomes clear Corso breaks his own patterns, even as it seems as if other are doing it for him. His monickers (the rabbit and the wolf) muddle some of his lead in the story, as he never quite reaches the heights of one nor the simplicity of the other, but it is this lack of clarity that lends Corso true humanity and separates him from the stoniness of his travelling companion "Irene Adler." The girl is clearly not all she seems, yet I am not truely convinced (as Corso seems to be) about her Luciferian nature. If she is in fact a fallen angel she adds a certain something to the Miltonian themes of this novel, and if not she at least embodies the trouvled and surprisingly humanity persona quite well. If she truely is Lucifer incarnate, she has certainly proven the point that redemption/deliverance/damnation/enlightenment is given to those who seek it not. ( ![]() What a fun read that was going to be a five star book until the expedient and simplistic denouement. I admit having seen the film first, with an amazing performance by Johnny Depp (and directed by the pedophile rapist Roman Polanski) but as always, the book exceeded the film in almost every aspect. While reading, I wrote that this was 'a book that makes me proud to have an education' and 'a book that makes me mourn the advent of the eBook'. To touch a real book, smell it and feel its contours in my hands, what glory! I wonder what will become of book collectors in the age of Kindles, iBooks and such things? I loved the insider knowledge the book deals in, from the linguistic to the analytical. I highlighted "But we all share a conspiratorial wink when we talk about certain magical authors and books. Those that made us discover literature without weighing us down with dogmas and teaching us rules." I don't know if it's my state of mind or what, but I just couldn't get into this book. Interesting premise, but not for me. I enjoyed about three quarters of this novel. Having read PerezReverte before I was prepared for an intelligent thriller. Alas, I began to find it turgid, overlong and, frankly, pretentious. Having lost interest in what happened next I finished reading a few pages before the end.
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. 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. Un roman délectable qui se situe entre Le Nom de la Rose, les jeux de rôles et Agatha Christie. Is contained inHas the adaptation
Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved in an adventure in which life imitates literature. No library descriptions found.
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