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Laddar... The Bestiary (urspr publ 2007; utgåvan 2007)av Nicholas Christopher
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I really have no idea what this book was about or what I was supposed to get out of it. I didn't really care though -- I loved the animal descriptions and the main character's quest for a fabulous book. ( ) I kept reading all the way to the last word to find out what happened to Xeno and his quest for the Caravan Bestiary. Nicholas Christopher is a wonderful writer. I have been to some of the places in the book and his words made me feel like I was transported back there. I could smell the rain in the forest in Italy, feel the dust blowing against my ankles walking up the cobblestones… That being said, this book made me furious. I threw it across the room after I finished and screamed some things my mom would still wash my mouth out if she heard. Why? Because it could have been a great book. The seeds are there. The kindest way I can summarize all the things wrong with the book is to say I felt like the author was holding back. TAKE THE LEAP MAN! A man's story of his lifelong quest of a book called the Caravan Bestiary. As interesting the basic plot is as boring the book can be sometimes. It was said on the cover to be "fast-paced' and 'like the Da Vinci code" but neither of is true. Has it own merits but don't expect someting very action-packed. And the 'magical realistic' part of it is a little weak too.... inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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A tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny. Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother's stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother's early death and his stern father's long absences. Shunted off to an isolated boarding school, Xeno turns his fascination with animals into a personal obsession: his search for the medieval Caravan Bestiary, lost for eight hundred years, which supposedly details the animals not granted passage on the Ark--griffins, hippogriffs, manticores, and basilisks--the vanished remnants of a lost world. Xeno's quest takes him from the tenements of New York to the jungles of Vietnam to the ancient libraries of Europe--but it is only by riddling out his own family secrets that he can hope to find what he is looking for.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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