What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Psychonaut]

I'm taking a brief study break and am digging my fiction reprieve, the Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The Club Dumas is a 1993 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The book is set in a world of antiquarian booksellers echoing his previous work The Flanders Panel.

The story follows the adventures of a book dealer, Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a rare manuscript by Alexandre Dumas, père. Corso's investigation leads him to seek out two copies of a rare book known as De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis (The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows). Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters on his journey of investigation, including devil worshippers, obsessed bibliophiles and a hypnotically enticing femme fatale. Corso's travels take him to Madrid (Spain), Sintra (Portugal), Paris (France) and Toledo (Spain).

The book is full of details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text, as well as insight into demonology, and the nature of social constructionism.

The film, the Ninth Gate, which was based up on this book pales in compare. The book is, quite simply, pornography for bibliophiles.

[lei.talk]

for prospective wikipedians:

as a parliamentarian, of course
my current protégée has memorised the three-hundred questions
and will memorise the twelve-hundred.

in contrast to dominance/submission or "power sharing" relationships, ideally,
she will enjoy purely voluntary and reciprocally beneficial relationships
which necessitates a different style of communication:

Keep the lion in his cage - free from hunger

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[Piparskeggr]

Hildiekatt guarding my different Edda translations.

[Nglund]

Conquest by Juliet Barker

[Tabiti]

The Secret History of the World By Jonathan Black

[Eldritch]

The Secret History of the World By Jonathan Black

An intriguing title for sure. Any good?

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I started reading this today:



Basically a book that argues that the allegations of adultery that resulted in her misplacing her head were not necessarily unfounded. Gave up about 1/3 of the way in -- basically because I realised that I, simply, just don't care.

Next waiting in the pile:

[Psychonaut]

I just finished reading through all 75 issues of one of my favorite comic series: Lucifer.

[Hrolf Kraki]

I'm enrolled in a couple graduate level history courses at UMKC this fall so I've been reading this in preparation:

[M.I.A.]

some book about the Illuminati/elite

[Gatillo]

Metro 2033
(2009)
A novel by

Dmitry Glukhovsky




And

El Asedio The siege

Arturo Pérez Reverte.