The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody Mysteries (Paperback))

by Elizabeth Peters
The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody Mysteries (Paperback))  
published 1997 by Warner Books
first published 1996
binding Mass Market Paperback
isbn 0446603988   (isbn13: 9780446603980)
pages 448
characters Amelia Peabody
setting Egypt
description A menacing cloud hangs over the eighth adventure of 19th-century archeologists Amelia Peabody and her husband, Radcliffe Emerson (seen before in The S...more
date added
02-19-07



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Writerlibrarian
bookshelves: historical, mystery, read2006
Read in February, 2006
A classic Amelia Peabody mystery. We get a few interesting twists in this one : Evelyn and Walter join Amelia and Emerson in the search for a Queen's royal Tomb and Amelia picks up two other stray : Sir Edward a young man who no doubt will turn up again much like O'Connell the journalist and David the young Egyptian boy who becomes Ramses blood brother. The Egyptology part was interesting, a bit too much of fluffy fill out for my taste in this one. Still not a bad read but I won't be getting int...more
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Carrie
Carrie rated it: 1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars1 of 5 stars
03/27/08

recommends it for: people who enjoy fluff and don't mind bad writing...and that's ok
One of my friends says that a story is a forest and the writing is the path. No matter how pretty the forest is, you won't enjoy it if you stumble over a rock or a branch every few moments.

If that's so, this book has some of the rockiest writing I've ever seen - I couldn't even get through it. The attempts at Victorian dialogue are painful and overdone, and I never want to see a pause expressed by "er.." again.

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Aprilmazzo
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05/02/08

I'm going to cheat and copy and paste my review of this series to all of the books that I have read from it.

The Amelia Peabody books are amazing. Well written and funny in a subtle sort of way. These are usually the books sitting on my nightstand that I cozy up with before bed. Sometimes I do need to take a break and read a different book, then come back to the series.
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Judy
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04/22/08

bookshelves: historical-mystery
Read in January, 2006
A pivotal volume in Amelia's adventures. Things that happen in this book are key in later installments and even show up in one of the Vicky Bliss books. This book introduces the character of David Todros.
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Jackie
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04/20/08

bookshelves: murdermystery
Read in April, 2008
Emerson loses his memory and Amelia must win him back! LOVED IT! OOh, and that Sethos, he is a sneaky one! Although I just don't think he's dead. He's too tricky to just die like that.
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Melissa
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11/18/07

bookshelves: books-i-have-read-
Read in August, 1998
#8 - have to read them in order ya know?

New characters introduced, David! I like him, he's a great foil for Ramses. A new tomb with treasures galore.
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Kay
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08/03/07

bookshelves: comic-romance, historical-fict, mystery-susp
Didn't finish. The second Amelia Peabody I attempted, and I was bored, bored, bored.... (cf. notes for The Enchanted April!)
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Stephanie
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03/16/08

Read in March, 2008
Wonderful, as usual. This time with new and recurring characters. I love that Evelyn gets to hold a gun in this one!
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Lucy
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02/26/07

bookshelves: egypt-ancient-et-al, novels-of-mystery, reread, the-mile
#8 for Amelia. Ramses and Nefret are growing up. Much to the perplexity of all involved.
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Caroline
Caroline rated it: 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars
01/12/08

bookshelves: amelia-peabody
Read in January, 2008
1899-1900
Amelia 47, Ramses 12, Nefret 15
Thebes
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Chelsea
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07/11/07

Read in May, 2005
Another good read.
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Jennie
Jennie marked it as to-read
11/05/07

bookshelves: to-read, wishlist
Book 8 - Peabody
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Tania
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04/22/08

bookshelves: mystery
#8 in the series
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Sarah
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06/11/07

bookshelves: historicalfiction, mystery
Book 8
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avg rating (all editions): 4.00 (475 ratings)
avg rating (this edition): 4.01 (467 ratings)
number of reviews: 14






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