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    <body><![CDATA[This brilliant story has a surprising ending.  The scenes of Sevilla and the dialogue are so vivid.  By the way I read it in Spanish where the title is &quot;La piel del tambor.&quot;  I think this is his best of the so-called mysteries, although they are much more than that.  His mastery of all asp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23732597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[perez-reverte's writing style is fluid, elegant and relaxing. the mildly interesting story about the conflicts between religion, politics, and all the individuals who get caught in between is set in a beautifully described local.  the main thing that i took from reading the seville communion is that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21559928">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Club Dumas and Flander Panel, also by Perez-Reverte, but his other books that I've read really don't compare.  Seville Communion is relatively entertaining, but it's pretty obvious what's going to happen next.  A character leaves a gasoline-soaked rag in an ashtray (a fact that's me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78310835">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Seville Communion is a novel of power and beauty that mixes poetic, intelligent dialogue, unforgettable characters, a complex and well developed plot, and the amazing setting of Seville. Arturo Perez-Reverte weaves quiet despair, awe, and wit expertly into his writing. Themes and topics like vio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71239630">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Étrange roman que celui-ci. Tout y est pour faire un parfait roman foisonnant et passionnant. Pourtant ça n’a pas pris avec moi. Bizarrement j’ai eu du mal à y entrer. Le style est toujours aussi distingué, raffiné, (même si j’ai trouvé un peu longues et superflues les digressions en pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17862475">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing was pretty good, certainly diverting.  I've never read something that's so sympathetically anticlerical.  It does make me want to visit Seville.  I don't feel like the odd Latin phrase here or there makes it the &quot;intellectual thriller&quot; described in the blurbs.  The character de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47566309">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[-Great descriptions of Sevilla.<br/>-Odd, quirky, yet believable characters.<br/>-Huge twist at the end of the book.<br/><br/>I think I liked this book because I have a thing for bizarre plots, especially bizarre plots that take place in Spain (this is the third or fourth book I've read by Pére...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40864549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. &quot;In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent,&quot; he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. &quot;A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen.&quot; As in his previous surprise bestsellers--<em>The Club Dumas</em> and <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In <em>The Seville Communion</em> it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as &quot;you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police.&quot; Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's <em>Beat the  Devil</em>, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as gripping as the other Perez-Reverte books I have read but it wasn't bad. I liked how the main character Father Quart always saw himself as a embattled Knight Templar. And I quite liked the trio of paid ne'er do wells commissioned to do underhanded deeds to allow the Cathedral Our Lady of Tear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76883409">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. &quot;In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent,&quot; he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. &quot;A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen.&quot; As in his previous surprise bestsellers--<em>The Club Dumas</em> and <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In <em>The Seville Communion</em> it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as &quot;you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police.&quot; Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's <em>Beat the  Devil</em>, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I want this author to be better; his stories are generally good attempts at originality that just slip up a little. This text was the first to interject a little humor into the mystery but it didn't really deliver on the intrigue as well as Club Dumas and Flanders Panel (as flawed as they were). A w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72832189">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Seville Communion is a mystery with a twist.  Someone has hacked into the Pope's personal computer at the Vatican to send an urgent plea for help to save Our Lady of the Tears, a crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville.  It is slated for demolition and two of its defenders have recently died.  Accident?  Murder?  Father Lorenzo Quart is dispatched from Rome to investigate.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little disappointed in this book.  It took me until page 200 to really get hooked on the story and for the suspense to start building.  Whenever I read an Arturo Perez-Reverte novel, I compare it to the Flanders Panel which was fantastic and, in my opinion, his best book.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. &quot;In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent,&quot; he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. &quot;A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen.&quot; As in his previous surprise bestsellers--<em>The Club Dumas</em> and <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In <em>The Seville Communion</em> it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as &quot;you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police.&quot; Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's <em>Beat the  Devil</em>, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should be a four star, but the sheer momentum of the novel, and the unlikely sympathy I developed for the protagonist knocked it up <em>una estrella mas</em>.  Perez-Reverte makes Seville come alive in this novel, and he draws you into his narrative with astonishing ease.  His throwaway villains, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22190615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. &quot;In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent,&quot; he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. &quot;A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen.&quot; As in his previous surprise bestsellers--<em>The Club Dumas</em> and <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In <em>The Seville Communion</em> it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as &quot;you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police.&quot; Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's <em>Beat the  Devil</em>, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fairly easy read.  I struggled for the first 100 pages or so with the character names for some reason (many of them seemed to have 2 or 3 names they are referred to in the book).  It left you hanging right to the end.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My second-favorite Perez-Reverte novel (after <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11030.The_Nautical_Chart" title="The Nautical Chart by Arturo Pérez-Reverte">The Nautical Chart</a>). The grace note about el Cid sticks in my mind.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately, it became clear before the end who the hacker was.  Interesting story, attractive character leads but there was no real grip to the suspense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Best read in Spanish.<br/>Pérez-Reverte really knows Seville; if you were ever lucky enough to live there, as we did, this book will make you nostalgic. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good book with some pithy, quotable passages, but I didn't enjoy it at all. I finished it feeling slightly dirty. And it wasn't even porny!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining story involving a small church in Seville and a hacker aiming high. Loved the lively description of Seville. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Seville Communion]]>
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    <![CDATA[Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. &quot;In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent,&quot; he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. &quot;A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen.&quot; As in his previous surprise bestsellers--<em>The Club Dumas</em> and <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In <em>The Seville Communion</em> it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as &quot;you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police.&quot; Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's <em>Beat the  Devil</em>, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The vatican has a secret message that something is wrong in an ancient Seville church.  People have been killed.  Vatican sends a soldier priest named Quart to investigate.  Meanwhile a Spanish banker's henchmen are trying to annex the property.  The parish priest is old and stubborn.   Fast paced b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74909991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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