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Chargement... Le Club Vesuvius (original 2004; édition 2018)par Mark Gatiss (Auteur), Laurence Boischot (Traducteur), Ian Bass (Illustrateur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe Club Vesuvius par Mark Gatiss (2004)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. rather like an extremely naughty epsiode of Wild , wild west- or maybe closer to Wilde, Wilde West (as in Oscar) ( ) I wasn't sure what to expect with this book. I'm only familiar with Gatiss' work on the BBC series Sherlock so I'm not all that familiar with his humour or writing styles. However, this book ended up being very aligned with my interests - Lucifer Box is just the right amount of snarky to entertain you without being annoying, much likes Holmes himself. The only problem I had was that none of the other characters (perhaps apart from Charlie Jackpot) were that memorable. When the mystery begins to reveal itself towards the end of the book, I had a hard time remembering who was who by name and I read this in only a few days. This book also starts out more or less historically accurate for it's setting (late 1800s/early 1900s) but then it delves into more science fiction with the opium zombies and a steam-powered bomb contraption, as if Gatiss kind of forgot what he had already set up and decided it needed more excitement. That said, this was the fastest I've read a book in a long time - not because it was an easy read, but because I had a hard time putting it down, it was so enthralling and entertaining. I hope that the next book lives up to the standard this one set for me. What to say? Lucifer Box is full of himself. Really full of himself. The story is a bit of a romp, featuring zombies controlled by purple morphine, a chase through the streets of London and into a graveyard, a trip to Naples and down into the bowls Mount Vesuvius. There are pretty ladies in sheep's clothing. There are dead bodies that really aren't dead bodies. And did I mention making Vesuvius its fellow volcanoes into a I really wanted to enjoy this book and have enjoyed Mark Gatiss' books in the past, but it was a bit of an up hill slog to get through. Still, I'm going to read Devil in Amber next. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent. Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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