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I picked this up on impulse in B&N a few weeks back. The blurb interested me - I mean a combination of Borges, Umberto Eco, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez AND reminiscent of "The Club Dumas".....Got to get it! I'm glad I did. It's simply a good atmospheric mystery and romance that held my interest all the way through although I correctly suspected one aspect of the mystery right from the beginning.
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I have rarely seen such a waste of words and pages in a book as in La sombra del viento.
Zafón's writing style is indeed very good, and this is the only real value of the novel, given the fact that it's through his style that the author succeeds in keeping his reader awake despite the boredom of the plot.
And yet there is nothing new in this novel: neither the story, nor the topic, nor the characters and their psychology, and the development of the plot is less than original as well.
The fact that ...more
Zafón's writing style is indeed very good, and this is the only real value of the novel, given the fact that it's through his style that the author succeeds in keeping his reader awake despite the boredom of the plot.
And yet there is nothing new in this novel: neither the story, nor the topic, nor the characters and their psychology, and the development of the plot is less than original as well.
The fact that ...more
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