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Ladataan... Historiantutkija– tekijä: Elizabeth Kostova
  
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A great read. Taking one star off for the antiseptic method the author used when having a character tell their story. But then again this is a very ambitious novel and I think even the most seasoned writer would have a doozie of a time navigating so many layers of material stacked upon itself. I think with that aside that she did a wonderful job of putting us in the middle of the characters lives. I felt kind of Jilted to hear how the father died. His ending seemed very low key and I felt that he should have had a better send off. A historian dying like a soldier in a land scarred by previous war. Paul deserved better. Everyone here is a main character and everyone has a stake in the outcome. I do like how after all the horror and evil that was put into the villian he was still made to be a misunderstood creature. (  ) Joe73 | Dec 29, 2020 |  Not what I expected when I picked up this book. It was good though. The ending left a little wanting. (  ) Weezer41 | Dec 27, 2020 | Not what I expected when I picked up this book. It was good though. The ending left a little wanting. ( ) Weezer41 | Dec 27, 2020 | There are not many novels — or at least not many novels I’ve read — that are set largely in libraries and archives, and whose heroes are historians. In this book, practically everyone could be “the historian” of the title, but that is not revealed until the last chapters of the book. In a series of cleverly-told parallel narratives set in the 1930s, 1950s and 1970s, a prominent academic, one of his students and the latter’s daughter play their roles in a centuries-long quest to find the legendary Dracula. I say “legendary” but of course Bram Stoker based his story on a real figure, Vlad the Impaler, a notoriously brutal medieval lord who fought against the Turks in the 15th century. It is a complex tale and ranges for over 700 pages, but for those who enjoy a good vampire story, or who are keen to read about the eternal conflict between librarians and researchers (I’m not making this up), it’s worth the effort. (  ) ericlee | Dec 22, 2020 | I gave up. I'm 100 pages in and I still don't know anything about these characters except that they study and travel a lot. She's still trying to get the story out of her dad, which she's been working at since the beginning. He tells a bit and then gets scared and stops. They eat some food, travel somewhere else, and he lets another chapter drop. Couldn't he have told the damn story and then we could focus on her journey? For the love. I just. Can't. Even. I don't want to pick it up again--time to move on. (  ) pmichaud | Dec 21, 2020 |
 Vlad Lit: don't flirt with it, just sink your teeth right in When, after many other allusions to historians and historicism, Kostova introduced a character whose last name is Hristova, I was tempted to run out to a pharmacy for some antihristomine. What's unfortunate about this overload is that the book -- which seems to want to do for historians what ''Possession'' did for literary scholars -- is otherwise the kind of wonderfully paced yarn that would make a suitable companion to a deck chair, a patch of sun and some socklessness.  In a ponderous, many-layered book that is exquisitely versed in the art of stalling, Ms. Kostova steeps her readers in Dracula lore. She visits many libraries, monasteries, relics of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, crypts, restaurants, scholars and folk-song-singing peasants. Every now and then a mysterious pale, sinister figure will materialize, only to vanish bewilderingly. The book's characters find this a lot more baffling than readers will.  Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery in the same vein (sorry) as A.S. Byatt's Possession--but without all that poetry. Sisältää nämä:The Historian, Part 1/2 (tekijä: Elizabeth Kostova) The Historian, Part 2/2 (tekijä: Elizabeth Kostova) Lyhennelty täällä:Saanut innoituksensa tästä:Dracula (tekijä: Bram Stoker)
A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil. No library descriptions found. |
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