The Club Dumas, any good? Anyone read it?

[imageWIS]

I was considering picking this up as a way to offset my upcoming class text-book reading. Is the book any good? I actually found the premise of The Ninth Gate rather interesting, if rather poorly executed. I was wondering if the book does a better job.

Jon.

 

[lawyerdad]

It's ok. If you've read and enjoyed anything else he wrote, you'll probably enjoy it. It's an easy and diverting read of the "literary thriller" genre. I didn't see the movie so I can't draw any comparisons there.

 

[RJman]

The Ninth Gate is Club Dumas without the Dumas. The Club Dumas is the best thing I've read by Perez-Reverte. It's a lot of fun, particularly if you like Dumas. It has very little to do with the godawful movie.

 

[aarghh]

The Club Dumas is fairly absorbing. Not "The Name of the Rose", but fun. I actually liked the Fencing Master too - not too many of the others have been as good.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by RJman

The Ninth Gate is Club Dumas without the Dumas. The Club Dumas is the best thing I've read by Perez-Reverte. It's a lot of fun, particularly if you like Dumas. It has very little to do with the godawful movie.

I liked the Flanders Panel.

 

[aarghh]

I knew I was missing something. Yep - Flander's Panel is better than both the books I mentioned before.

 

[SartorialSplendour]

Good to hear about the Flanders Panel. I enjoyed CD, but was wondering if the minimal amount of reading of Dumas I had done would impede my enjoyment of the book. It did not. Did this book spur anyone onto read around in the Dumas canon?

 

[California Dreamer]

I've read all of Reverte that has been published in English. Club Dumas was one of his better ones, and definitely better than that godawful film.

My favourites are The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion as thrillers with a twist. I also like the Captain Alatriste novels for a bit of light reading - they should appeal to Dumas fans also.

 

[imageWIS]

Cool, I'll pick up a copy this weekend.

Jon.

 

[aarghh]

Originally Posted by California Dreamer

I've read all of Reverte that has been published in English. Club Dumas was one of his better ones, and definitely better than that godawful film.

My favourites are The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion as thrillers with a twist. I also like the Captain Alatriste novels for a bit of light reading - they should appeal to Dumas fans also.

Alatriste is very thud and blunder...good, highly dramatic fun for light reading, as you said.

 

[SoCal2NYC]

I read it about 2 weeks ago (not knowing about The Ninth Gate relation) and I enjoyed it.

In a similar vain you can read The Dante Club which is about a murder in 19th century Cambridge that goes around murdering people in similar fashions of those found tortured in The Inferno.

 

[Fuuma]

It's a fun erudition-thriller that proved to be much more satisfying than Dan Brown.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

I read it about 2 weeks ago (not knowing about The Ninth Gate relation) and I enjoyed it.

In a similar vain you can read The Dante Club which is about a murder in 19th century Cambridge that goes around murdering people in similar fashions of those found tortured in The Inferno.

I'll second this. A fun read.