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The Bookman
by Lavie Tidhar
by Lavie Tidhar
Natalie's review
bookshelves: adventure-fiction, england, speculative-fiction
Jun 04, 11
bookshelves: adventure-fiction, england, speculative-fiction
Recommended for:
steampunk fans, holmes fans, literature lovers with a sense of humour and adventure
Read from May 30 to June 04, 2011, read count: 1
An adventurous yet literary steampunkish tale.
Here's what other goodreads reviewers who've fallen for this book have said
. . . and I, for one,agree with 'em (mostly) Why? Because literary and historical references and persons abound, and the intricate plot continually surprises, fun stuff!
But you are going to need to take along a few things to enjoy the journey. Here's what I recommend:
An undergraduate or graduate degree in English literature or maybe just the The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The ability to visualize a chessboard and a chess game in progress
Parallel timelines of American, English, and French history from the Sixteenth Century to the present
An encyclopedic memory of Sherlock Holmes cases
An Ordnance Survey map of London
A book of quotations
A Bio of Jules Verne or the ability to visualize his life and times
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
(or just the Lucy Poems and the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Karel Čapek's War with the Newts
The Tempest
The Hymns of Orpheus
or if you are getting impatient, you could just watch the DisneyHercules:
But most importantly, take along your sense of humor, the ability to suspend disbelief, and a few hours time for nothing but reading!
If you read this far, you may be the first lucky reader to find out that I'm putting my copy of The Bookman up on swap! Get it while it's hot.
Here's what other goodreads reviewers who've fallen for this book have said
. . . and I, for one,agree with 'em (mostly) Why? Because literary and historical references and persons abound, and the intricate plot continually surprises, fun stuff!
But you are going to need to take along a few things to enjoy the journey. Here's what I recommend:
An undergraduate or graduate degree in English literature or maybe just the The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The ability to visualize a chessboard and a chess game in progress
Parallel timelines of American, English, and French history from the Sixteenth Century to the present
An encyclopedic memory of Sherlock Holmes cases
An Ordnance Survey map of London
A book of quotations
A Bio of Jules Verne or the ability to visualize his life and times
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
(or just the Lucy Poems and the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Karel Čapek's War with the Newts
The Tempest
The Hymns of Orpheus
or if you are getting impatient, you could just watch the DisneyHercules:
But most importantly, take along your sense of humor, the ability to suspend disbelief, and a few hours time for nothing but reading!
If you read this far, you may be the first lucky reader to find out that I'm putting my copy of The Bookman up on swap! Get it while it's hot.
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Reading Progress
| 05/30/2011 | page 195 |
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47.0% | "wow! This is good stuff! Wish I knew more abt: chess & English poetry and navigating london (who doesn't?) but I get the feeling that every single reference and fictional/historical/landmark crossing here supports itself and the story which is like some kind of carnival ride thru a house of literary mirrors - what a ride so far!" |
| 06/01/2011 | page 326 |
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78.0% | "umm, Orpheus, The Tempest, Moriarty and a secret of identity. There's a lot going on and plenty to figure out as Orphan's quest takes him to places unknown." |
| 06/03/2011 |
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95.0% | "The end's in sight, only a handful of pages left, and I'm feeling a little melancholy about that. The cast has mostly been assembled to take their bows and bid their adieus." |
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