3.5
The Club Dumas
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Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's
, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment.
Corso is soon drawn into a swirling conspiracy 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 on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.
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3.5
Claud
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“First things first, I read it in German. Some say the language is worse. Maybe the english translation is bad, but in German it's amazing.
The main character is not likeable. He is complete over with his life, drink too much (absolutely not suitable for young Readers) and use every tool (sex, violence and money) to achieve his goal. I give a spoiler at the end, why this is needed for the end. Maybe you will need it after reading the book.
So what makes it good. It's darc academia for adults. It's about books, snobistic wealth, academic knowledge. At some points the reader ask him/herself, do they like the books (it's about really old ones, first prints, lost manuskripts etc.) or the way, they can spend thousands of euros for buying and owning them?
Think you understand the plot? No the plot understands what you want to believe and turns completly different in the last 2/3.
Like I mentioned, the German version has a brilliant style. A lot of artistic used adjectives, suiting words to potrait the characters. Sentences with intense highlights. The German version has the pictures, which are part of the plot. What gives hints to some of the questions.
For those who don't need a nice main character, love mysterious stories and dark patterns. Read it. One of my most loved books.
Spoiler: But it's needed to understand the cryptic end. He is bad, he is the worst - but he doesn't use the devil. On a completly wrong way, he falls in love with the devil.”
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