false 7194 45 #1 International Bestseller Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named after a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion. 372756 book 1993 The Club Dumas total:2794|5:614|4:1096|3:749|2:254|1:81| 2794 10290 3704 392 2 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 13:44:24 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 16:20:28 -0700 2007
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I thought the premise was interesting, but the climax was disappointing, the characters were one-dimensional (this might have been purposeful, as he was trying to draw parallels to Dumas' book, but didn't really work for me),...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 17:25:27 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 20:20:56 -0700 2008 The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion. The book I thought it was started with a man in the library of a home that is burning down, but the s...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu May 31 10:09:19 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 10:43:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 08:21:54 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 10:59:52 -0700 2008 The Ninth Gate. The movie changes much of the book's plot, as most film adaptations of novels do. The novel is fuller, with A and B plot strands which interweave throughout; The Anjou Wine vs. ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 10:44:55 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 10:52:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 22 09:18:41 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 09:19:13 -0800 2007
I don't want to go too much into the plot because it's very t...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Nov 12 19:54:07 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 12 20:06:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 05 07:17:07 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 07:18:21 -0800 2008 The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. While this is not necessary to fully appreciate The Club Dumas, I was glad I had the background. Knowledge of th...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 05 07:29:54 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 07:45:49 -0700 2008 The book, however, shows another storyline that was completely ignored by the movie. The ending was good and no...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Apr 23 18:50:03 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 28 14:31:17 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 11:51:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:45:51 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:59:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu Dec 04 16:40:04 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 16:40:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 13:53:18 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:53:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 07:57:32 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 07:58:17 -0700 2009
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The translation was pretty darned good - there were only on...more...]]>