I will hold my hand up to two things at the start of this review. Firstly I am drawn to fiction based on other fiction, and secondly I'm not a big Dickens fan. For various reasons I just don't find him an interesting read.However I can't deny his impact as a novelist at a time when reading as a p...
Intertaining How clever this story was; I was gripped ~ and surprised ~ by the time it came to its end.
Jan 10, 2012 I love Matthew Pearls topics more so than his actual writing, but his books do keep you interested!
Po raz kolejny sięgam po książkę M.Pearl'a. Ulegałam ponownemu zauroczeniu. Literacko wspaniała, dojrzała, bogata w szczegóły i co cenię bardzo w powieści - ma silne, wyraźne tło miejsca i czasu. Wędrowałam z bohaterami po Bostonie, poznawałam jego obraz, kropla po kropli. Klimat XIX-wiecznego św...
The novel is a fictionalized account of the founding of MIT. It has aspects of a mystery thriller in that a series of catastrophes are happening in Boston, and people are ready to blame the students and faculty of new school. Some students team up to try to find who's behind the strange calamiti...
I loved The Dante Club (reviewed in July). It was intelligent, and pure geeky fun, and I had a lovely time picking my way among the corpses in 19th century Boston. So I jumped at the chance to take The Poe Shadow on paperbackswap.com.I should preface this by admitting I haven't read much Poe. ...
I wish I had spent my time reading Dante's "Inferno" rather than wasting my precious hours on "The Dante Club." I usually give a book 50 pages and if it doesn't grab me by then, I stop reading it. In spite of the fact that this one failed my 50 page test miserably, I was determined to finish it...
Whiskey Bill had served a mission in a silver bowl on a silver platter. Do not mistake the conclusions I drew as criticism of Davenport’s intuition or his methods. On the contrary. To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow; yes, that may be part of the pedestr...