La mappa del destino

Leído en 2013. Absolutamente nada que reprocharle a esta novela creada por y para el consumo de masas. Tiene todos los ingredientes para crear una novela de éxito (parece casi de manual) y, lo más importante, el autor los adereza con un estilo lo suficientemente correcto para crear una novela atrayent Leggi tutto

I think I got a bit obsessed with Glenn Cooper this fortnight, after reading his first two earlier books about the Vectis Library. So in The Tenth Chamber, we are taken to remote caves in rural France where a great new discovery is made of early cave paintings. As a team descend to uncover its secre Leggi tutto

Glenn Cooper l’ho scoperto un po’ di anni fa per caso. Stavo cercando come al solito un libro da leggere quando dallo scaffale della libreria vedo occhieggiare un titolo interessante: La Biblioteca dei Morti. L’ho subito acquistato ed è stato amore fin dalla prima pagina: la storia mi ha preso a tal Leggi tutto

Classica lettura estiva da "sotto l'ombrellone" quando il livello di attenzione è quello di Homer Simpson nel paese del cioccolato ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZo-... trama scialba, personaggi monocromi, colpi di scena scontati al limite del ridicolo e lettura nemmeno tanto fluida (che dovrebb Leggi tutto

I walked into Glenn Cooper's The Tenth Chamber a bit unknowing, not having read his other works, and I'll admit I was leery. Ancient cave art? Modern-set historical fiction that involves . . . St Bernard of Clairvaux, with Abelard and Heloise? But something compelled me to pick up the book despite my Leggi tutto

Finished this book, but I am not sure what it was about. Is it a story of the discovery and preservation of prehistoric art in a French cave? Is it a story about French resistance ambushing a German train loaded with stolen WWII currency and artifacts? Is it a story about man's search for eternal li Leggi tutto

While this isn't the most earth-shattering read to land on my desk, Glenn Cooper nonetheless delivers an entertaining novel. Mixing historical periods (with a less raunchy nod to Jean M Auel's Earth's Children) Cooper presents us with Luc Simard, a dashing cad of an archaeologist. When a mysterious