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Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.
As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Perez-Reverte has plundered the works of Dumas and Conan Doyle, borrowed from demonology and the occult, filched from American hard-boiled mysteries, incorporated contemporary literary criticism, and come up with a novel that's witty, suspenseful, and intellectually provocative. Rare book sleuth Lucas Corso has been hired to find the two other existing copies of the seventeenth-century Book of the Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Darkness, reputed to hold the key to conjuring Satan. Somehow this search becomes tangled up with the original manuscript of Dumas' Three Musketeers, which has, in a most labyrinthine manner, just come into Corso's hands. He travels from Madrid to Paris in search of Book of the Nine Doors, pursued by a scarred thug and a Kim Novak double. Perez-Reverte, author of the stylish Flanders Panel (1994), drops enough deconstructive one-liners to put some distance between the reader and the text. Necessary reminders, as it turns out, since ultimately the real mystery of The Club Dumas lies not so much in the story itself as in what the reader has created from it. Brian Kenney
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I can't say enough about what an incredible experience it was reading The Club Dumas. I picked this book up on a whim and couldn't put it down. I read the entire book on vacation in Puerto Rico and then searched endlessly for another Perez novel. The book is captivating--a cloak & dagger suspense involving a much sought after Dumas original manuscript, seedy homicidal "business partners," and a sequence of events that leads the reader through a series of perilous adventures--from the threat of human and supernatural demons, to the reality that you can't trust anyone, The Club Dumas offers a suspensful ride that makes you feel that you are actually involved! For any true bibliophile, this is the Holy Grail of books!
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After watching the film "The Ninth Gate," I began The Club Dumas with the expectation that I would become immersed in the world of rare books. I wasn't disappointed. Perez-Reverte conveys the tactile pleasures of fragile pages, leather bindings, and the printer's art with the adoration of an antiquarian. But the author goes beyond the physical nature of books to explore how a story unfolds within a reader's mind. I was surprised that the plot, unlike in the movie, revolves around Alexandre Dumas' body of work rather than a tome on the occult--or does it? We the readers become as confounded as Corso once we agree to follow him through what seems to be his scripted fate. As we lose ourselves in the story (any story), we choose our assumptions about what is happening in the text.
Besides the wonderfully subtle exploration of reader as audience/actor, I also recommend the book because of the humor and Perez-Reverte's beautiful language. I wish I could have read this in the original Spanish!
Maybe the literal gloom of the movie is a projection of the mental confusion we feel when we read a story and try to understand every aspect of it. Can we stand apart from a book in order to analyze it when, by involving ourselves in it, we become part of it? This is a great "Hmmm, I wonder" book.
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The Dumas Club is a throughly enjoyable read. but be warned, it's full of (explained) literary references, so if you just want the explosions and daemons you felt jipped out of in The Ninth Gate, look elsewhere.
also, this is not the book version of the ninth gate. Mr. Pereze-reverte, i'm assuming, read and incredible book that was out of print and saugt to share it: for all intents and purposed, it's a remake of Jaques Cazotte's 18th century novella "the devil in love". don't believe me? read it. the story lines of the dumas manuscript and the ninth gate are secondary stories. Lucas needed the distractions Alvaro had to keep him from overly second guessing his companion.
It reads much better when you realize it's about Lucas and Irene, and the writer has the freedom to romaticise and frankly look at their relationship. i'm pretty sure no one would have appreaciated it if Cazotte had permitted Alvaro and Biondetta. and we may never of heard the story if he hadn't brought it back.
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Boring book
I picked this book because it took place in Spain and I have always been interested in Spain, but I could not even force myself to get through 50 pages of this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juli 2000 von Dustin Wilkes
A Study In Boredom-A Weekend At The Club Dumas.
While reading The Club Dumas it became painfully obvious why only seven people saw Johnny Depp's movie adaptation of the book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Intellectual froth tops off cool detective adventure
If the novel THE CLUB DUMAS were a script pitch for a movie we might say it is ROSEMARY's BABY out of THE BIG SLEEP via RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Juni 2000 von Ian Muldoon
Plot and (unfortunately) then some.
The plot of Club Dumas kept me turning the pages until the end. But because I found the characters and relationships unreal and annoying, I found myself skimming over those many... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2000 von Zeb Landsman
Too Vague
This book was impressively complex -- with the author's obvious deep research into old books and writers.
Of course, it helps if you've read "The Three Musketeers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
The Club Dumas
An amazing book. It is one of few books I have read that successfully combines action and high art. It is very entertaining but not disposable. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
The Club Dumas
An amazing book. It is one of few books I have read that successfully combines action and high art. It is very entertaining but not disposable. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Fun Page-Turner Spoiled By Trick Ending
Like The Flanders Panel, this falls into the category of "literary mystery," although it'll most likely show up on the fiction shelves in stores and libraries. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Mai 2000 von A. Ross
An intelligent tease but no real climax
The Club Dumas is an interesting exercise in the craft of fiction. It tries, ultimately unsuccessfully I think, to blend a complex, deliberately artificial mystery plot with a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Mai 2000 von Doug Vaughn
You are cordially invited to join The Club Dumas.
I have to both thank and curse Roman Polanski for adapting Perez-Reverte's novel to the screen (as The Ninth Gate). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Mai 2000 von Krustymetal
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