Requiem

by Graham Joyce
Requiem
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67 ratings, 3.54 average rating, 4 reviews (more data...)
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published
2006 (first published 1998) by Tor Books

binding
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages

isbn
0765355418   (isbn13: 9780765355416)

description
"The city is like a fractured mirror: you can see yourself, but you get a shock at how it comes back to you. "The city is contemporary Jerus...more






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Bill
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01/22/08

bookshelves: horror
Read in January, 1998
I'm having a really tough time composing a review for this one because since finishing it I've been left with mixed feelings. I guess I'll start off with a brief story outline...
Tom Webster has just lost his wife in a freak accident. He up and quits his schoolteaching job and heads to Jerusalem in search of an old friend. The rest of the story surrounds revelations discovered from the lost Dead Sea scrolls and Tom's struggles with his past. Joyce depicts
Jerusalem vividly and you're constantl...more
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Greg
08/17/08

bookshelves: fiction
Read in August, 2008
I really liked this book. The plot was well constructed and it had a nice development, but then it kind of kept developing and the pages remaining started decreasing rapidly while the story kept building up. Eventually the story had to come to an end but the ending seemed more of an afterthought than any destination the author probably had in mind. I'd give this book four stars up until about the last forty or so pages.
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Joanna
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08/23/07

Read in August, 2007
A dark and emotionally intense page-turner, with a beautiful blending of fantasy and reality, madness and sanity, the sacred and the mundane. This is my second favorite Joyce book after The Facts of Life.
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Trunatrschild
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10/13/08

bookshelves: fiction
Searching for occult in all the wrong places.
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