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Lädt ... Moriarty (2008)von John Gardner
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. No, really. I tried to like this book, but I'm having considerable difficulty in finding anything positive to say about it. The prose style is clichéd, when it isn't veering towards near-illiteracy. The characters are two-dimensional at best. The plot? at one or two points it limps dangerously close to being exciting, but the author's leaden pacing ensures that that doesn't happen. And the plonking flourishing of supposedly-contemporary "underworld" argot is risible: not only does it make the book smell of the lamp, but in several instances it is out of date by as much as two decades. Yet somehow this work has been edited (and the editor should hang her or his head in shame), published and printed. How that has happened is beyond me. Someone, somewhere, must have found merit in it. Quite good. Not at all what I was expecting, though. I was sucked in by the title character's having been the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes and was expecting a tale with similar characteristics. Not for this book the cool calculation of Sherlock Holmes. And no John Watson in sight. An altogether different sort of story about an altogether different sort of man. But quite good, indeed. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Bestselling British novelist John Gardner published two books purporting to be the true history of Professor James Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, the Napoleon of crime. The books - The Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty - were praised as stand-alone volumes set in a vividly accurate Victorian London and a stunning vision of the underworld of the time, inhabited by the kind of men and women who lived and preyed on the society of the late 19th century.Now it is the turn of the century and Moriarty has been away from London for several years, realizing his plans to set up crime syndicates in major U. S. cities. He is suddenly called back to London where his vast criminal society has been overrun by a rival concern led by the shadowy Sir Jordan 'Mad Jack' de Levant - a supposed gentleman hoodlum who is acting on behalf of the leaders of well-known criminal elements in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Moriarty lives again and revolts against the upstart criminals who have attempted to oust him from his rightful place as king of all criminal endeavour. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Overall an entertaining historical thriller ( )