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Mar 28, 2018
Akilah
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This book is beautifully written and narrated (audiobook), but I'm over an hour in and bored out of my mind.
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Eis um livro que me conquistou às suas primeiras páginas. Como não o fazer quando descreve tão bem aquela sensação de descobrir 'o nosso livro'? De descobrir aquele livro que nos marca tão profundamente, que nos muda, aquele livro que nos alerta ou desperta para a importância da literatura, que nos arrebata de tal forma que passamos o resto da nossa vida de leitores a tentar reencontrar a mesma emoção em outros livros...
Não, não precisou de muito para me convencer que Carlos Ruiz Zafón é um escr ...more
Não, não precisou de muito para me convencer que Carlos Ruiz Zafón é um escr ...more

Apr 06, 2014
Dana Berglund
rated it
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The opening of the book hooked me, had me clamoring to inhale it. The descriptions, the richness of the setting, and the curiosity of our narrator made for a gripping beginning. Eventually I started to get bogged down in those details, in the alleys and shops of a city I have never seen. The characters and intrigue multiplied, and I got lost among them. By the (long awaited) denouement, I was invested again, and ate up the ending. It was worth the near-slog through the middle.
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Easily distracted, supremely susceptible to red herrings . . . . I'm not a good reader of thrillers. And, despite its book-based plot and complete rootedness in place, this one was take-it-or-leave-it until the final third, when it got really, really good.
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I've never really read something that I considered a mystery cause I didn't consider it my genre, but this book is definitely a mystery and I really liked it. I loved the way the book flowed through the mystery. I love how a book discovered in a mysterious library called "the cemetery of forgotten books" can impact the main character Daniel's life so much so that from pre-teen to twenty year old he is engrossed in the mystery of finding the man behind the book, the man that wrote the book that t
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This was a frustrating read, mainly because I loved the book at first. It was captivating both plot and language-wise and very "meta" in its discussion of book-collecting. THEN...the ending just fell apart and disintegrated into hurried, easy-way-out summary by a dead character. Come on now...disappointing.
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I made it more than 100 pages into this book and just couldn't keep going. The atmosphere was interesting, but the characters and story were less compelling for me. The theme of antique books and mysteries surrounding them makes this a logical choice for readers of DaVinci Code, Rule of Four and similar books.
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Dec 30, 2013
Loretta
marked it as to-read
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Apr 17, 2014
Nicole
marked it as to-read
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mystery,
historical-fiction