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Summary: VERY BORING
Review: I thought this book was pretty boring. So much so that I returned it. Try Paliser's Quincunx or The Unburied or anything by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is an excellent mixture of history and mystery. It is narrated in four sections by four different people, and each one has a little piece of the puzzle. The ending will definitely surprise you.
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Summary: Not even close to Name of the Rose
Review: I've long searched for another Name of the Rose, and thought I'd finally found it with IFP. WHAT a disappointment. A rambling mess that I could not finish. Not only did I not care about the victims and why they died,the characters are uninteresting and disconnected with times. Pears just isn't much of a storyteller, the reader continually waits for something to happen. He would have been better off cutting the book in half. I found little to recommend, and I'm taken aback by its positive reviews.I finished "Name" with a great feel for the times, the personalities of the people, how, and what, they thought about the world around them, and profound sense of history. Propelled along by a terrific mystery and compellng protagonists and you have a great book. Pears does not deliver any of this.
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Summary: Too long, uninteresting
Review: This is the first book that I began reading but never finished. I bought this book because I usually love historical mysteries, and I had read another book by this author that I had liked. This book however, had very little mystery in it. It was also so long and drawn out that it couldn't even hold my interest when I was trapped on a plane for 4 hours. Because I couldn't even bring myself to finish it after a few hundred pages, I have to give it one star. I am honestly very surprised by all of the praise it has received.
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Summary: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Review: I found this a fantastic read. Initially I bought it based on the cover design, (I'm a graphic Designer), but found it an engrossing story. The language is sometimes a little difficult, but you get that with a book set in the 1600's. I've recommended it to all my friends. Worth a read!
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Summary: Excellent read
Review: This book was without doubt the most amazing, well written, well constructed, gripping, historically accurate / sensitive novel I have ever read. I was so impressed with it I have a hard time putting the title "book" on it - I consider it more of a masterpiece. My only complaint was that it was not long enough - it could have gone on for a few more narrators!
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Summary: Oxford murder most brilliant
Review: The book consists of four men telling their memories of Oxford in 1663 around the time a professor at the University was murdered. This stylistic device is cleverly used to reveal the truth about this murder as well as a few unrelated events of passing political and religious interest. This book will be enjoyed mostly by those who have at least a passing knowlege of english history in the 17th century. Anybody who actully went to the University will enjoy the description of a place we will in many instances still find recognisable. Some of the people wavn't changed much either. I found myself going to work with suitcases under my eyes as I spent my nights wanting to find out what really happened
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Summary: Couldnt finish too long
Review: I just could not get into this book, I never finished it, it was tooooo long and did not get me interetested soon enough. :( Mark G
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Summary: intricately conceived and revealed
Review: When I imagine how the author constructed this novel, I envision a huge bulletin board with four long rows of index cards... with some cards conspicuously blank. The plot is impressively labyrinthine without being completely bewildering. There are rich themes of loyalty, class structure, and religion; one of the joys of the book is seeing the apparent theme change before your eyes after a turning point in the plot (and there are several). Hearing the point of view of several narrators is interesting; however the author failed to achieve distinct voices for the different narrators.
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Summary: AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST
Review: GREAT HISTORICAL MYSTERY BOOK! THE BOOK IS AN EXCELLENT READ FOR PERSONS WHO LOVE ENGLISH HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. I LOVED IT, BUT THE AUTHOR SHOULD HAVE USED MORE JUDGMENT IN THE NUMBER OF NARRATORS AND THE LENGTH OF HIS BOOK. THE BOOK IS EXCESSIVELY LONG AND I WAS IRRITATED AT THE END BECAUSE I WANTED THE FINAL NARRATOR TO QUICKLY END THE BOOK.
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