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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Start date: March 1, 2014

Finish date: March 31, 2014

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Apr 20, 2007 Suvi rated it liked it

Shelves: _north-america, 2000s, crime-mystery, historical, novels, vampires

This was not as exciting as I thought but I found all the historical details very interesting, especially because I'm very much intrigued by this subject. Some things could have been easily cut away and get the same result, but the ending was really good. ...more

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Nov 13, 2008 My work is never done marked it as to-read

From what I heard is an awesome book re-telling the story of Dracula and with more historical events added to it than Bram Stoker's book.I cant wait to read it@ ...more

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Nov 17, 2012 Jen rated it it was ok

Shelves: murders-mysteries-thrills, other-realms, history-travels, historical-fiction, fiction, scary, z-2013-read, books-about-books, europe-other, turkey

As a partial history of the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Eastern Europe and a study of the historical figure Vlad the Impaler, this book was pretty interesting; as a vampire tale though, it was LAME. And at over 600 pages, what a long, lame trip it was. ...more

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Oct 02, 2007 Summer Rae Garcia rated it it was ok

I liked the idea of this book, but it was a colossal waste of time. It made me sad because I really thought I would disagree with all the bad reviews. Oh well, I was warned.

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