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Laddar... The Rule of Four (urspr publ 2004; utgåvan 2004)av Ian Caldwell (Författare), Dustin Thomason (Författare)
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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. the bits about the hypnerotomachia- the mysterious ancient manuscript were fun-but overall it didn't draw nme in as much as I had hoped ( ) I liked it. I enjoyed the characters – i love a book with good character development. They were believable and likeable (for the most part). The story itself was the ‘ok’ part. A friend was right when he said the puzzles were useless as the reader couldn’t solve them. If you ignore the puzzles, it was a mediocre mystery novel with some historical fact/fiction thrown in. Overall, it was a fun read, but by no means a must read.
As a thriller, The Rule of Four is not especially fast-paced, but the personalities and relationships are well-handled, as is the narrator's conflict between his desire for a normal relationship with his girlfriend and the sense that he is being dragged into dangerous obsession. This is good entertainment, a Da Vinci Code for people with brains. This promises well for the future of the authors, either together or separately. Next time, their ambition may vault lower and their presentation smoother, but meanwhile The Rule of Four is a great read on its own youthfully brash terms. The title, by the way, refers not (or not only) to the roommates or to their college years but again to the encryption in the Hypnerotomachia. It is never fully explained. Ingår i förlagsserienZwarte Beertjes (3501) Inspirerades avHar som referensvägledning/bredvidläsningsbokPrestigefyllda urval
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius. THE RULE OF FOUR Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets -- to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled -- until an ancient diary surfaces. What Tom and Paul discover inside shocks even them: proof that the location of a hidden crypt has been ciphered within the pages of the obscure Renaissance text. Armed with this final clue, the two friends delve into the bizarre world of the Hypnerotomachia -- a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, Princeton's snowy campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book is murdered, shot dead in the hushed halls of the history department. A tale of timeless intrigue, dazzling scholarship, and great imaginative power, The Rule of Four is the story of a young man divided between the future's promise and the past's allure, guided only by friendship and love. .Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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