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The Somnambulist

by Jonathan Barnes

Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.

Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect or inspires the awe that he did in earlier times. Despite having previously unraveled more than sixty perplexing criminal puzzles (to the delight... (more)

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Christian D
  • Rated 5 stars

Dark, British, funny, Samuel Taylor Coleridge! What more could you want?

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  • Rated 2 stars

The Somnambulist is a fantasy/horror novel set in Victorian times about a once-famous magician turned detective Edward Moon and his sidekick, The Somnambulist, a silent giant with a default thirst for milk. The police reluctantly turn to the unlikely duo to help solve a series of inexplicable, grisly murders that seem to have ties with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the future of London.

Jonathan Barnes' first novel starts interestingly enough by adequately imposing the strange...

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  • philosophefop

    philosophefop said:

    Why do so many people persist in saying this book is set in the Victorian era? (Particularly the reviewers on the back...) There are a number of times that characters specifically mention that "the Queen is dead."

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • daye

    daye said:

    I finally finished it. Just okay.

    posted Wednesday, May 21 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • daye

    daye said:

    It is like Tom Waits meets Micheal Chabon. So far so good but I feel sorry for any book trying to compete for my attention during planting season!

    posted Saturday, May 3 2008

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