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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: My husband suggested this book to me and I just wasn't sure that I'd be interested in the period that this book deals with. Now I'm sorry I hesitated even for a day. When I finally opened that eerie cover and started reading, it was as though the whole story enveloped me! I so looked forward to reading it but on the other hand, I was trying not to read it too fast because I just didn't want it to end. I heartily suggest it to everyone and am even giving it to family members for Christmas.
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Summary: Long missing but now found.
Review: ... I ordered it immediatly and look forward to reading it again!
I recommend this book just for the adventure of the story alone, not to mention the characters and the 'history' of the sherlock holmes stories.
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Summary: first good book
Review: I first read this book when I was 16 and it was the first book that I litteraly couldn't put down. I am now 24 and reread this book every 2 yrs. or so and it gets better every time. I have read it so many times and lent my original copy out to be read to nearly everyone I know that it has fallen apart and I recently bought another copy from amazon so that I may reread it again for the sixth time. I can't really say why I fell in love with it, but it's probably all the corelations with Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and not to mention the all incapcitating web Frost weaves that makes it continue to bring me back time after time. I also read the sequel The 6 Messiahs, however enjoying reading it also, I wasn't as entralled with it as I was with the first.
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Summary: Great book.
Review: The list of 7 is one hell of a ride. In the first few pages you are hooked and can not put it down. A great read for all horror fans.
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Summary: This is one of the most satisfying reads around
Review: I expected to hate it, being a Holmes fan and all. I am so glad I got over my bias -- it was wonderful.
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Summary: Very good debut.
Review: When I found out Frost's background as co-writer of Twin Peeks' script, I knew I was going to enjoy this novel. At first I encountered my doubts when I found out about Doyle's heavy role on the book, but after a few chapters into the novel I realized this was going to be a nice ride.I just can't seem to describe how good this book is. Really, that good it is. The characters are alive and the tension they are forced to endure will grip you and won't let go of you. I'm not making this up, just when you thought things couldn't go any worse Frost twists the story into something darker. And I believe it is rightly justified to say this book introduces a criminal with such an evil and complex mind that he easily rivals the likes of Hannibal Lecter. The last chapters are some of the best I've read in modern horror fiction, introducing us to the real goals of the secret society and the results of their doings. They read like something Arthur Machen could have wrote and I have no doubt the society was lightly inspired on the members of the Golden Dawn. (Of which Arthur Machen was a member) So why then four instead of five stars? Well, the last line of the book (Yes, I mean it, the LAST line of the whole book) is a bit of a cliché. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A Pulse-Quickening Ride Into Supernatural Adventure
Review: Christmas Day, 1884. A young man, struggling to establish a medical practice in London, receives a mysterious note begging for help. A note begging for the doctor's assistance in ascertaining the veracity of a medium's ability to contact the spirit world. The young doctor is none other than Arthur Conan Doyle. And as he attempts to merely debunk a medium, he is pulled into a serpentine plot by seven mysterious conspirators, and is enlisted to fight them by an even more mysterious dark man. "The List of 7" snagged me from the very first page and my interest never flagged. Mark Frost expertly creates a rich, spooky atmosphere of Victorian England -- a world which brims with both progress and despair on the surface, yet lays over another, darker world, of spirits and powers most people know nothing of. I was reminded somewhat of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist," in that both novels powerfully immerse you into their time periods and the menacing atmospheres of the story. Frost writes with an eye for great detail, yet the story never bogs down on meandering exposition or description. Through both dialogue and text, he quickly and expertly paints amazing scenes and images. The book is filled with characters historical and fictional, and he does a very nice job when they interact. All the characters feel real and three dimensional, despite the fantastic events and abilities of two of the characters. Where Frost's writing really shines is the action-packed sequences: Doyle's first breathless escape from the mysterious hooded figures, his panicked scrabbling for an exit from an all-too-real gargoyle, and a blood-freezing confrontation at a snowbound, ruined abbey. Some reviewers have said that the ending is somewhat anticlimactic. I will agree tentatively. Frost wrote a sequel, "The Six Messiahs," which appears to be out of print. "Messiahs" as a whole does not hold up as well as "List," but has the better ending -- one more emotionally and spiritually satisfying. I think this was planned by Frost; it seems fairly obvious he planned on making it a two-book story. Still, you can read "List" by itself and come away happy. "Messiahs" is a nice way to bring closure to some story points, but isn't necessary to enjoy "List." I cannot speak for Sherlock Holmes fans (as I am not a Doyle reader); but as a lover of the Indiana Jones movies, the X-Files, and anything with well-written dialogue, I can heartily recommend this book. As a postscript, Guillermo Del Toro (director of "Mimic," "Chronos," "Blade 2") has optioned the book for a film (and his visual style would be a wonderful match for the story), but so far no studio has had the guts to translate this book into a film.
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Summary: The Game is afoot!
Review: Mark Frost's The List of 7 is really an exciting book. This book was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel...and rightfully so. Each chapter is an exciting adveture unto itself. I just hope that I will be able to see the movie. What a ride. I happen to have a signed copy of the book and Mr. Frost signed it "The Game is afoot"...and in that spirit the story is told. Of course, he has another book, The 6 Messiah's, out, but I am looking forward to his next effort. My hat is off to Mr. Frost for sharing this adventure with us...fun book.
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Summary: I was always wondering where Doyle got his ideas from...
Review: If you want to write a book about dark supernatural forces, isnt int the most interesting to pick someone out as a hero who doesnt believe in such "superstitions". Who could be more appropriate than the father of the smartest detective working always with great precision and scientific accruacy, Sherlock Holmes? Yes, you are right, it would be Arthur Conan Doyle... This novel offers plenty of interesting ideas and pesonalities who once will appear in the future novels he will publish later on, with Sherlock Holmes as main characters, inspired by the secret agent of her majesty, Sparks. This book is great enterainment, offering a fast paced story that wont let you be bored for a second... And for those who like it, there is some pretty gruesome stuff in there... Got the author inspired by Stephen King?
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Summary: a great ride!
Review: This book will take you along with the ever so logical Doyle as he goes from one dark mess to another. It is fast, creepy and scary stuff! Adventure reigns supreme, while at the same time allows for some intellectual moments. Mostly it is plain fun!
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