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The Club Dumas
 

The Club Dumas

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

#1 International Bestseller
Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil... (read more)

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Liked It

Barbanellie
  • Rated 4 stars

“I am very pleased with this book! At first it was pretty weird, and I felt it was slow, and the author spent a lot of time on long descriptions. And I remembered the movie with Johnny Depp, so I was a bit skeptical. But the book turned out not so weird, very intriguing and interesting. I always wanted to read more, to find out the details of the mystery. And the ending, I thought was a lot more satisfactory than the one in the movie.

In a few words: Great literary mystery, I...”

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Didn’t Like It

Audrey H
  • Rated 1 stars

“I'm a AP English Teacher and consider myself an intelligent reader, but this book never engaged me from the outset, but I stuck with it anyway. It is nowhere as exciting as Dan Brown's works, even though there are a few spots that raise the level of a rather ho-hum experience. Unfortunately, we never really care about the characters, although the concept is engaging when it isn't bogged down in narration.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.876712 stars
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  • Rated 3.571429 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • sweffer

    sweffer said:

    “This is a great "fantastical-mystery" type read. The attempt at an adaptation with Depp was HORIFIC. I think of all Perez-Reverte's historical mysteries, this is the most gripping. I think the characters are the deepest of all his books, and having also read it in Spanish, this is probably the best translated of his books. In all its a great summer time read for those that like a little more intelligent of a mystery.”

    posted Thursday, June 26 2008
  • Erin G

    erin g said:

    “Do you think this would be a good book for a book club?”

    posted Thursday, May 15 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • Valerie Sp

    valerie sp said:

    “This is my favorite P-R book. WAY better than the sad movie that used only one string of the plot. Great for people who love books and authors, including Dumas and Agatha Christie.”

    posted Monday, December 31 2007
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