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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Could barely put this down I loved this! Thought the characters were all well-drawn and interesting (the names alone are great) and the story was compelling and original. In true mystery style, each chapter ends on a cliffhanger and as a result I could barely put it down... As you would expect from the author the book is very funny in places, staying just on the right side of black humour. My only problem is that I want to pass this book onto someone but can't narrow it down as I'm struggling to think of someone this book... more info
This is a VERY funny book. Laugh out loud Funny as a matter of fact, and I did, on average, about thirteen times an hour. There's a distinct, 60's feel to it all; something to do with the cleverly-copied Aubrey Beardsley, Yellow Book look of the thing and the outrageousness of the rather-hard-to-follow plot. If this book were a film it would look like The Wrong Box or Casino Royale (the Peter Sellers movie, not the latest, hard-core version, obviously) and Peter Cook would be playing Lucifer Box. The comedy is definitely... more info
Reading the book is torture I have to say I was looking forward to reading this for my book club, yet sadly it wasn't worth my time. I lacked any interest for the characters in the novel and unfortunatly did complete the book after much torture. Some members of the book club however gave this a positive feedback, stating they enjoyed the book as it was different to most novels out at the moment.
Summary:
- Boring Characters (lacking any charisma or humour)
- No inticing storyline or plot
- No decent humour
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Fun but pretentious Its a good story of derring-do with lots of satirical humour and odd Dickensian names adorning odd Dickensian characters. Very much something found in a penny dreadful perhaps although much cleverer than that. However Gatiss knows it is much cleverer than that and that is The Vesuvius Club's major failing. Lucifer Box was a good character but a bit too pretentious (that may be the point of the character but one can go too far...) and I felt as though his 'cleverer than thou' attitude appeared to... more info
