The Book With No Name: The International Bestseller (The Bourbon Kid Trilogy)

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The book is a hybrid of the horror/fantasy/thriller genres and the pace doesn't let up once it gets started. There are plenty of twists in the plot and the story keeps you guessing til the end. The dialogue is on point with the style, it is witty, pacey and gritty. This feels like a guilty pleasure, a book that just stimulates the senses and leaves you wondering - what just happened? The plot of the book loosely follows Jensen's investigation. Jensen is partnered with a local detective who is obsessed with the Bourbon Kid, and they go from one bloodbath to another. Along the way, they encounter a couple of starry eyed lovers who seize every opportunity to enjoy each other carnally, a carnival boxer, Elvis the hit man, and a fortuneteller with a copy of The Book With No Name.

Por lo demás, esta es una novela victoriana interesante y atípica, que me ha entretenido pero de la que esperaba mucho más. Sinceramente creo que le sobran páginas, pero soy consciente que la mayor pega que le pongo es personal, la disfrutarán mucho a los que les diviertan las pesquisas detectivescas. This is definitely not a mystery. Toward the beginning there is some information not immediately provided to some of the characters (and not to the reader, either), but that cannot constitute a mystery. That piece of information is known before the first part is behind us. No, this is more sensational fiction. Collins has been referred to as the King of Sensation Fiction. Collins has adopted a new style of writing here. He tells his story through a combination of narrative, chronicle, and epistolary writing. This method was very refreshing. It gives the reader a break from the monotony of the narrative. I very much enjoyed this style.Putting that all aside, which I probably should as it is a really, really bad idea in the first place, I must tamp down my initial presentiments and judge this book by its own merits. Hard. So hard. L'intrigue et ses sources d'inspiration forment un tel mélange qu'il est parfois difficile de s'y retrouver. Maybe one of the best readings this year, I think this novel should be more valued and that it should be occupying the place it deserves, among the masterpieces to be read and reread over and over again.

I can imagine how being written for a periodical could have added interest and narrative thrust to this story, but perhaps it is also an explanation for the inconsistent attitude the narrator seems to have about the protagonist's sister: she starts out as a bit of a pill but later becomes a dull embodiment of conventional morality in contrast to her sister. And there is just no excuse for the bizarre, abrupt, and (to modern sensibilities) inexplicable ending, which still apparently outraged some Victorian moralists who felt the poor protagonist hadn't been punished enough. Fictional Document: The Book With No Name from which the novel takes its name (still following?) that talks about the Eye of the Moon and Armand Xavier and Ishmael's quest to find the Holy Grail. No Name is the second of the four novels generally thought to be Collins's best, and I quite agree with general opinion. The plot centers on two sisters, Magdalen and Norah Vanstone, who find out that when their parents die that they weren't married at the times of the sisters' births, making them illegitimate; thus, they are disinherited by law and cast out from their childhood home by their estranged uncle. Norah submits to her fate and finds work as a governess, but Magdalen vows revenge and embarks on a series of plots to regain their inheritance.

The International Bestseller

Muitas mortes (quase parecia uma referência a "Kill Bill"), algumas bem violentas, muitos ladrões, muito ambiente de bar. I'm not even a bookworm and i could tell how badly it's written! At first i hoped it was only the french translation that wasn't good, but no... it really is the author's bad work. The plot leaks in all directions, nothing holds your breath, sentences are thrown here and there with no purpose... I also love how there is no character I could just 100% get behind (moral ambiguity is always fun) but still rooted for what is basically a terrible person. Was für eine abgefahrene Geschichte, die mich von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite super unterhalten hat!

Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. Tan solo un par de personajes me gustaron realmente, entre los que destaco sin duda al MARAVILLOSO Capitán Wragge, por su mera presencia, las 700 páginas de este libro merecen la pena, ¡Porque menudo personajazo! Épico y divertidísimo.Ceiling Corpse: The ultimate fate of Elvis is to be nailed to the ceiling with many, many knives. They don't hold him for long though. Auch wurde gekonnt das Rätsel um Bourbon Kid bis zum Ende geheimgehalten und es gab einige Überraschungen bei dem großen Show Down am Ende - natürlich um 12 Uhr mittags, wie es sich für einen Western Verschnitt gehört. Alle Details wurden passend aufgelöst und auch wenn ich einige Vermutungen hatte - und auch teilweise richtiglag - gab es doch noch unverhoffte Wendungen. Es spielt hauptsächlich in einer angesagten Bar in Santa Mondega, in der vor fünf Jahren der berüchtigte Bourbon Kid ein Massaker angerichtet hat. In einigen Tagen scheint es wieder soweit zu sein, denn die nächste Mondfinsternis steht an und das "Auge des Mondes" wurde wieder gestohlen, ein sagenumwobener Stein, der viel Macht zu besitzen scheint. a) upload the demos she has been making of her own songs in her bedroom onto youtube, get discovered, go viral and get to be the Victorian Female Bieber? We all remember the old broadside ballad Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations.