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Summary: a non-stop read
Review: It's been years since i've read The Eight. I only have three things to say about this epic read: Intense. Strategic. A Treasure.

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Summary: 65 reviews already, but what the hey!!!
Review: I loved this book when I read it over two years ago. I still love this book. I reread it every few months for inspiration. You see, I'm a writer. I figure if I read this superb novel every so often, maybe, just maybe some of Ms. Neville's genius will seep through the pages and miraculously join with my DNA. Wishful thinking. The Eight had everything I enjoy in a book, heart-stomping adventure with a mixture of romance and intrique. Yeah baby, this is a winner, and if you don't read it, you're missing one of the best novels ever written. Great art, Katherine Neville.

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Summary: This is truly an adventure novel of epic proportions!
Review: This book is both entertaining and enlightening. To those critics who complain that it is full of contrived coincidences and unlikely heroes and heroines, I say: "So what"? Being an incorrigible romantic, as I am, I much prefer heroes and heroines who are larger than life, and perform the seemingly impossible, and who fight to the death to protect and defend their values, and who depict life and mankind as it could and should be; rather than the so-called "realistic" novels which purport to depict life as it really is, which is at best trite, banal, and mundane, and which you can get by reading any daily newspaper. Give me this kind of novel any day. It is delightfully entertaining, as well as thought-provoking. I highly reccomend it, and look forward to reading other books by Ms. Neville.

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Summary: What a ride! Buy it! Read it! Share it with friends!!
Review: This book is one of my four all-time favorites! I was inspired to learn how to play chess after reading it. Katherine Neville is a wonderful writer, and the time she spent doing research for it was well worth it! Ingnore the people who gave it a bad review -- majority rules! It's amazing! And I read an interview with the author where she stated that she intends to write more books with characters from this one! I can hardly wait!

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Summary: Fabulous read
Review: Kathernie Neville does an awsome job intertwining a tale of intrigue and suspense with history and a game of chess. i have recommended this book to every reader i know. it is fast paced with excellent characters. You will not be dissapointed in this book, in fact, you will not put it down.

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Summary: Very imaginative. Great fun. Buy it!
Review: A friend who knows I play chess lent me her copy of this book. I was skeptical at first that a novel about chess could be fun. But I was won over. This book is fantastic. But don't waste your time with "Hence" by B. Leithauser (about chess). "The Eight" is better than "The Luneburg Variation" by P. Maurensig, which I do recommend (also about chess). I've heard good things about "The Queen's Gambit" by W. Tevis, but haven't read that one yet.

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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: The only book I've ever read that I couldn't put down until I'd finished it. The plot switches between the French Revolution and the 20th century just enough to keep you involved in the tale. Fantastic book, well worth buying.

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Summary: Up till 2am reading
Review: A friend gave me the book and iread it in 4 days. i couldnt put it down untill i looked at the clock and saw it was 2 am.then i dreamedthe parts i read

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Summary: It's simply wonderful and fascinating!!!
Review: Neville's book is simply marvellous. She captures the mystery and the intrigue very well. Oh, this book is a mystery, frightening yet intoxicating!

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Summary: The Mysterious Chess game of Montangle, and the Mysteries
Review: sometimes a reviewer's mind is too fixated on the obvious and historical to grasp ALL of the mysteries that this book poses. Miss Neville has done quite a thorough research on the mysteries of the Templars, Francmasons, and other older and secret schools of Mysteries to bring us this exquisite work. A piece of Action, Intrigue, Mysticistm and Science, within its pages the reader can finally grasp the interconnection between all things, and how they all converge, in the end, the same way Mathematics, Music, Chemistry and Physics are seemingly unrelated, but are interconnected in ways that are powerfully exposed in Catherine's quest. From the mathematically-perfect music of Johan Sebastian Bach, to the poems of WIlliam Blake and the Mathematical incursions of Franklin, Benjamin, we find the paralell storylines of 1790 and 1970 (1+9+7=17, 1+7-=8) enthralling and , once past the first few pages, the reader will be compelled to finish this piece of art, no matter the cost ;)