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A Pick-It-For-Me Challenge recommendation.
Another gem of a book I would not have read, if it was not recommended to me for this challenge.
Beautiful,lyrical prose, this book captured me from its first sentence. Plenty of thought-provoking quotes that you would like to jot down.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny ...more
Another gem of a book I would not have read, if it was not recommended to me for this challenge.
Beautiful,lyrical prose, this book captured me from its first sentence. Plenty of thought-provoking quotes that you would like to jot down.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny ...more

Fantastic. Starts off a little slow but once it picked up I couldn't put it down. For a translation, very easy to read and I was unable to tell it was a translation just in the reading of it. Gothic, eerie, historical, romantic, mysterious, and about books--it has everything.
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I really enjoyed this book. It had elements of mystery, comedy, romance, and intrigue and it was also brillianty translated by Lucia Graves. Now I can't wait to read "The Angel's Game".
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OMG! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! I was crying in the end, and that usually is a good sign ;-)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón has managed to create a wonderful story, and the different narratives give so much more depth and color and flavor to the story... In the end I liked many characters I hated in the beginning, because their choices and actions and thoughts were explained as the same happenings were explained by the different people involved in them... and...
Oh, just read it! :-D
Carlos Ruiz Zafón has managed to create a wonderful story, and the different narratives give so much more depth and color and flavor to the story... In the end I liked many characters I hated in the beginning, because their choices and actions and thoughts were explained as the same happenings were explained by the different people involved in them... and...
Oh, just read it! :-D


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