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The Club Dumas
- By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrated by: David Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 483
Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. Soon the unsuspecting Corso is drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs to be fixed.
- By James Morehouse on 10-23-17
- The Club Dumas
- By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrated by: David Warner
My Blasphemous Review
Reviewed: 06-11-19
I say blasphemous because I'm about to utter words that will offend every self-respecting reader: The move was better. How many people do you think would have read "To Kill a Mockingbird" if not for the movie? The same here. I worked backward from the movie and Polanski did this book a favor by dropping most of it's rambling on the cutting room floor making it into a screenplay. He managed to extract just the key worthwhile elements and weave them into a concise story that is mesmerizing to the viewer. This book rambles as if the published said "here's the number of pages you need to fill regardless of whether there's enough story to cover them". Excellent narration--still 4 our of 5, but w/o the narrator a solid 3 for being the scrapbook source material of a good movie.
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