The Club Dumas

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• The Club Dumas

  Review-a-Day Saturday, March 11th, 2006 The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte The Da Vinci Club A review by Chris Bolton I recently had a brief, somewhat heated, debate with my mother over The Da Vinci Code. Admittedly, I'd only skimmed the opening ... (read full critics)

  powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  Book lovers, beware the tempation of text!

  The story is one that should interest all lovers of books, those who would lose their souls for books, or sign them away in exchange for the final tantalizing tome, and the self-deceptions of the greedy and gullible reader. (OK, so I have also seen the film adaptation starring Jonny Depp and the cap ... (continue)

  The story is one that should interest all lovers of books, those who would lose their souls for books, or sign them away in exchange for the final tantalizing tome, and the self-deceptions of the greedy and gullible reader. (OK, so I have also seen the film adaptation starring Jonny Depp and the captivating Emmanuelle Seigner, but more on this connection later...)

  The narration to me seems deceptively but intriguingly indifferent, as though the novel is fine cigar being deliciously smoked but without a care in the world on the part of the imbiber (narrator) for the falling ash. The ambivalence shown towards the main character, Corso, is held taut throughout the piece; it slackens only where Corso mourns the loss of a former lover (Perez-Reverte is quite brilliant at capturing true male sensitivities here) but the reader is never quite sure of Corso, and this is one of the chief elements of appeal for me in the volume.

  The book's peripheral characters are much more interestingly portrayed than they are in the film version - Gruber, Baroness Ungern, even Irene Adler herself, nevertheless, I personally feel that the book and the film do form something of a useful symbiosis in comparison to other attempts to transpose literary works to the big screen, and I thoroughly recommend that anyone who reads this does watch The Ninth Gate (in any case, Roman Polanski does a fare finer job on this than Agustín Díaz Yanes manages for Alatriste).

  I re-read The Dumas Club on a very regular basis. It's like going back to a cellar full of a fine vintage - renewed expectation is founded on known excellence.

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  Non è nulla di speciale stilisticamente, però la storia è avvincente e senza pretese, dunque mi sono molto divertita a leggerlo.
  Tre stelle perché non mi sento di metterlo sullo stesso piano di libri che, oltre ad avere una storia che regge e piace, cercano di approfondirLA intorno ad un tema/ricer ... (continue)

  Non è nulla di speciale stilisticamente, però la storia è avvincente e senza pretese, dunque mi sono molto divertita a leggerlo.
  Tre stelle perché non mi sento di metterlo sullo stesso piano di libri che, oltre ad avere una storia che regge e piace, cercano di approfondirLA intorno ad un tema/ricerca, mettendo anche in mostra una più lucida conoscenza della lingua.

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  IL.FALSO.DEMETRIO said on Jan 11, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  1/24 Liked it well enough. Always fun to have 'literary' mystery and definitely liked Lucas C.

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  Psc said on Mar 14, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• The book makes me want to read "The Three Musketeers"!

  This is one thing, as I have never really read the complete version of "The Three Musketeers" and I really feel curious about it. I think it must be great as I also enjoy "The Count of Monte Cristo" a lot. Another thing that impresses me is how much research the author has done on studies of the d ... (continue)

  This is one thing, as I have never really read the complete version of "The Three Musketeers" and I really feel curious about it. I think it must be great as I also enjoy "The Count of Monte Cristo" a lot. Another thing that impresses me is how much research the author has done on studies of the devil, the demons, and all the related subjects. It's really interesting to see the Devil from a different light. (Or it is really not so different...)
  It is also interesting to read a story that jumps between the first-person and the third-person narration. It's not so awkward, but again not so logical. If there is a first-person narrator, this person shouldn't be in the least omniscient, even partially. But that's the way the novel is written!
  One thing that I don't like is the spoiler provided by the first-person narrator. I don't know why this "I" has to tell the readers from the beginning that Corso isn't going to die. That really lessens the suspense feeling!

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  Ruth Ye said on Jan 21, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Unfortunately I've read it after seeing the movie.
  Still a very intriguing book.

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  Alice said on Jan 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

• Lost this book somewhere.

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  9days said on Jul 25, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0679777547
• ISBN-13: 9780679777540
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Mar 17, 1998
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and Audio Cassette
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, Libri Italiani

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