Icelander
 

Icelander

by Dustin Long

A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie — a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49 — Pale Fire meets The Da Vinci Code?Icelander is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy Icelandic lore and pulpy intrigue.



When Our Heroine’s dear friend is found murdered, it’s an obvious job for her mother, a... (read more)

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Vanessa S
  • Rated 4 stars

This is a wonderful story! By far the best part of the story is the writing, which you don't find very often. Some of the sentences are just beautiful - Long has a great command of the English language. There is also some play on feminist theory and general writing/objectivity issues, which end up being pretty amusing.
The front of the paperback compares the novel to Lemony Snickets, which is so true - some of the names of the characters have underlying meaning, their is a villain who...

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Theophania
  • Rated 2 stars

It's clever--I'll give it that. And in parts it's funny. But it gets a little tedious following all the imaginary footnotes. Basically, the second I finished the last word of the last page, I had forgotten all about it.

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Community:
  • Rated 3.833333 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • T-Rock

    t-rock said:

    I thought this book was great! It was like no other book I have ever read. It takes a little effort but once you get use to how its read its a whole lot of fun.

    posted Wednesday, October 24 2007
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