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The Lost Library (2012)

by A.M. Dean(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1447209516 (ISBN13: 9781447209515)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Pan Macmillan

review 1: Geen hoogvlieger, maar wel een lekker verhaal om te lezen. het begin is nogal wat rommelig en leest niet zo fijn, maar als je eenmaal doorleest wordt het verhaal wat vloeiender. De plot zit goed in elkaar, maar kent niet zoveel verrassingen. al direct in het begin is bekend wie de goede en de kwade zijn. het is dan ook allemaal wat voorspelbaar. De ontknoping kent nog wel een aardige twist en een verrassend einde. Kortom; goed leesbaar, maar kan zich niet meten met de boeken van Dan Brown. geef hem 3 sterren.
review 2: Wow....and I thought Dan Brown was a crap writer....the obviously pseudonymous 'A.M. Dean' puts him to shame for sheer cliche-ridden two-dimensionality. Not even a good airplane book (I'll give it to Brown that his excretions are worth half a cr... moreoss-country flight...), mainly as the characters are such shallowly-written morons, it's a real pity that the germ of what could have been a pretty cool conspiracy-theory/lost-knowledge sort of plot was wasted on such an incompetent stylist. I picked the book up at the Providence Athenaeum for the blurb, a good hook: lost Library of Alexandria still exists...and I finished it as a toilet-tank skim reader (one three-second glance per chapter being about all that was needed), because the plot concept, in the hands of a GOOD author, might be engaging, and it might yet be salvaged by a competent screenwriter and some excellent big-name acting...but it's unbearably bad to read at any level of concentration....I mean, the heroine actually frees herself from handcuffs in an Istanbul alley using a bobby-pin (Danger-prone Daphne does it again! Thanks Velma!). The only way I'd grudgingly give some respect to this book's writing is if it were actually composed by some newish AI program that had been fed a lot of thriller screenplays, but my bet is that 'A.M. Dean' is actually a self-important but dim middle-aged woman used to wielding authority at some lesser institution of Midwestern higher learning...maybe a community college somewhere near Carleton. MAYBE go watch the movie, if it's made and has a hot cast, but don't waste your time on trying to read this overcooked tripe stew - go re-read some classic LeCarre or a good Nero Wolfe mystery instead! less

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