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The Club Dumas

Arturo Pérez-Reverte,

Sonia Soto (Translator)

Start date: September 7, 2016

Finish date: October 5, 2016

Discussion: Wednesday Book Group

Discussion leader: Anne Simms

Why we're reading this: This is a fascinating study of the world of book-collecting, with a hint of the supernatural.
[close] This is a fascinating study of the world of book-collecting, with a hint of the supernatural.

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Oct 11, 2016 Nicola Nicholson rated it really liked it

For me what's not to love,a book about books,including my favourite the Three Musketeers,murder,intrigue,a hint of supernatural and some secret signs hidden in illustrations. This is the fourth time I have read this and I still thoroughly enjoyed it. ...more

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Oct 06, 2016 Bo'ness Library Bookgroup rated it liked it

Our group found it hard to classify this book - was it a murder-mystery, a thriller, or supernatural? Or all three? Lucas Corso is tasked with finding out whether a copy of a satanic text, 'The Nine Doors', and a manuscript chapter of 'The Three Musketeers' are genuine, and gets mixed up with murder and intrigue along the way. Three of four of us couldn't get into it at all and didn't manage to finish, while others struggled at first, finding it rather slow, but then started to enjoy the intrigu ...more

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