Ezra Barany
Auteur de The Torah Codes
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Ezra Barany
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 31
- Popularité
- #440,253
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 3
I sound really harsh, and it's probably because I really, really wanted to like this book. A Jewish Da Vinci Codes sorta book. Sounded ultra cool to me, but this book is nowhere near the Da Vinci code. Nowhere near.
It's about Nathan. A computer programmer, independently wealthy and yet he still works for Google. Well, except during the course of the novel, I mean, even at Google they really let you just not do any work for weeks on end, where do I sign up. He meets a young lady named Sophia. I couldn't tell if it was love at first sight or if they even liked each other at the end of the book. Mostly because Nathan's character seems like an utter douche, and Sophia seems like she doesn't have any emotions at all. I also never really got a feel for how old they were supposed to be, and the banter (as well as the 'relationship') seemed horribly forced through the entire book. Which, ironically is the one thing it has in common with The Da Vinci Code in that both books the smart handsome debonair guys relationships with the different and arty and mysterious' lady friends seemed forced.
The narrative was so choppy. Go somewhere, find clue, next somewhere else, another clue. There was very little connective tissue, that held the story together, that made me care about (or even like) the characters. The cloak and dagger stuff was also overdone, and it just didn't read as if it could have ever been real. A lot of the story just didn't feel real. There were too many stereotypes and not enough reality. A story should be fiction but grounded in reality. This novel wasn't grounded at all.… (plus d'informations)