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Loading... The Club Dumas (1993)by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  
Unread books (115) » 12 more Books Read in 2018 (335) Best of World Literature (184) Unreliable Narrators (90) KayStJ's to-read list (518) Book Hoppers (4) Secret Histories (8) No current Talk conversations about this book. Mayores de 18 años   Alba26 | Aug 23, 2019 |  Oh, man did Polanski butcher this book. The Club Dumas is an example of the intellectual thriller genre. The Da Vinci Code might be another, but I would rather not put the two in the same bucket. The critics understandably compare it to Umberto Eco light and I would agree - it makes you feel smart because you’re in on all of the supposedly arcane knowledge being tossed around. There is international intrigue, antiquarian texts, the occult and most certainly murder. In the end, I didn’t know whether something supernatural happened or not, and I prefer it that way. (  )1  Seafox | Jul 24, 2019 | Overall this is a good book. It does not have the excitement of the film but that is OK. The story differs somewhat. Well worth the time. It highlights just how ludicrous secret societies are and kind of spooky as to what lengths they will go to cover up a secret. Not quite the same caliber as ECO's Focault's Pendulum but entertaining. (  ) Joe73 | Jun 3, 2019 | terrifically fun and exciting (and much better than the film based on it, The Ninth Gate), this occult metafictive pastiche detective story thing was jolly fun from beginning to end. and now i want to read everything i can get my hands on about demonology and devil summoning. ( ) haarpsichord | Nov 5, 2018 | I love a good literary mystery or just a good book-about-books, but this one was incredibly disappointing. In The Club Dumas, Pérez-Reverte has constructed an elaborate labyrinth that lacks a Minotaur. The proposed mystery is intriguing - on one hand, we have Dumas' The Three Muskateers, and an obscure religious text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows. While at first my mind was spinning in an attempt to piece together how Dumas was involved in the occult, the real mystery revealed itself to be how Pérez-Reverte was going to tie together his two plotlines. In the end, we have minimal resolution that fizzles out to leave the reader confused and unsatisfied after turning the last page. Reading this book struck me with a major case of déjà vu. After some Google research, I discovered the cause: the book was adapted into a thriller directed by Roman Polanski and starring Johnny Depp, The Nineth Gate, which I watched on Netflix a few years ago. I remember enjoying the movie immensely. (  ) bookishblond | Oct 24, 2018 |
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
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