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de Katherine Neville (Author), Megan Follows (Reader)
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Neville's reach exceeds her grasp by a long shot in her chaotic third novel (after The Eight and A Calculated Risk), a bewildering attempt to blend historical fiction, New Age adventure and modern techno-thriller. Utah nuclear technician Ariel Behn receives a set of mysterious manuscripts from her Native American cousin Sam, who has narrowly survived their attempted theft. As possessor of the scrolls, Ariel finds her life in similar danger, especially after her company sends her to Russia with handsome, mysterious Wolfgang Hauser. During a torrid affair with Wolfgang, Ariel comes to suspect that he may be after the scrolls himself. At the same time, various members of her glamorous, far-flung family inform her that Hitler, Genghis Khan and the ancient Romans all sought the scrolls, which seem to hold the key to a secret power grid beneath the earth. Alternating family history with thorny historical passages, Neville brings the narrative back to Utah for a ludicrous wilderness showdown among the scrolls' pursuers. Neville has buried a decent story in so many expository layers of far-fetched historical gibberish and New Age nonsense that even her most devoted readers may find themselves exasperated. Author tour.
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Nuclear scientist Ariel Behn's beloved cousin, Sam, is murdered, and Ariel learns that she is heir to a cache of manuscripts that may unlock the secrets not only of the past but also of the coming millennium. This promising premise allows the action to move back and forth in time and place, jumping from first-century Rome and the Holy Land up to the late 1980s and on to the contemporary world. There is something here for thriller fans and for those who enjoy historical fiction. But Neville weighs down her book with, first, the complex Behn family tree and, second, a head-whirling miasma of mythology, astronomy, religion, and geography--all fascinating millennial topics in themselves but never quite successfully integrated with the story here. Nor does the ending offer the payoff that has kept readers going through more than 550 pages. Still, individual sections of the book are compelling, and fans of that emerging subgenre--the millennial thriller--will want to add this one to their reading list. Ilene Cooper --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Avoid this one, Jui 28 2004
Par Genevieve M. Ellerbee (Alexandria, Virginia, United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Magic Circle (Mass Market Paperback)
Katherine Neville's other two books are loads of fun - The Eight is a fantastic book, and A Calculated Risk is really entertaining, even if it doesn't hold together as well. But I was really disappointed with this book. The plot falls apart early in the book, and it goes downhill from there. I didn't care at all about the characters, and the whole book feels like the author is simply trying too hard. Read Neville's other two books and stop there.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 endless piffle, Jui 23 2004
Par D. House "Dfotn" (Seattle, WA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Magic Circle (Mass Market Paperback)
pee yew! This one is a stinker. I realize you must suspend belief when reading fiction. But for 550 never ending pages? Give this one a miss. Read The Eight instead.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 A circle never ends, Janv. 20 2004
Par Turner Morgan "turnermorgan" (San Francisco, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Magic Circle (Mass Market Paperback)
I very much enjoyed this author's first novel, The Eight. With anticipation I picked up a copy of this one and found: the plot is almost non-existent, and long diatribes of Aryan-related metaphysical mumbo-jumbo stand in for it. The main character is by turns hideously stupid and smugly smart; the 'big surprise' is in fact neither very big nor terribly surprising. The title seems to herald a basic fact about the plot and about the way the story is told: one continues to run around in circles around the focal 'mystery', and never penetrates it.
I'd strongly recommend her first novel instead. This one? Check it out from the library some day when you're completely without reading material. Buy it used.
But don't spend your money on it.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining
I have to admit that this is a complicated story, though gorgeously so. It goes to confirm that real life stories are a product of many interwoven strands, and that today's dramas... Read more
Publié le Mai 13 2005 par Peter Jones

3.0étoiles sur 5 A mystery that just... fizzles out
The summary of the plot at the back of the book, drew me like a beacon. A family secret spanning eons, goes back to the time of Christ and his last days. Read more
Publié le Mai 27 2004 par L. A. Stelczyk

2.0étoiles sur 5 Itsa notso great
I read The Eight, and really liked it, but I didn't even finish this one.
Publié le Fév 21 2004

4.0étoiles sur 5 Fun, yet complicated
ï¿The magic circleï¿ has all elements that make me get interested in a book: historic happenings and characters, ancient relics, world domination, etc. Read more
Publié le Janv. 19 2004 par J R Zullo

4.0étoiles sur 5 A Taut Thriller, with a heroine
I got this book through Bookcrossing.com and it sounded interesting. When I began reading it, I found myself engrossed in a tale that deftly combined the past & the present,... Read more
Publié le Janv. 13 2004 par Carolyn McKenzie

2.0étoiles sur 5 After 'The Eight,' this was a disappointment
Okay, I read "The Eight," by this author, and I have to say, it was one of my favourite books, hands down, ever. "The Magic Circle," really really really fell short of that. Read more
Publié le Janv. 4 2004 par Jonathan Burgoine

2.0étoiles sur 5 It was almost good
Neville missed the mark on this one. As a fan of The Eight and Calculated Risk, I expected her pattern of weaving in and out of history, mysticism, and adventure. Read more
Publié le Nov. 9 2003 par Avid Reader

1.0étoiles sur 5 Dissapointing....
I thought that I will love this book as I loved the Eight but I was in a mistake. This book is so difficult and to boring in some parts that I tried to re read many pages of some... Read more
Publié le Oct. 13 2003 par Victor A. Zapata Romero

1.0étoiles sur 5 TOO MUCH!!!
I have read "The Eight" and I was expecting a thriller or a book that I wouldn't be able to put down. This book was very hard to read. Read more
Publié le Aoû 10 2003

1.0étoiles sur 5 disjointed and chaotic
I picked up this book because I had loved Neville's 'The Eight' so much. Sheesh, I wish I had not bothered. What a silly mishmash of loose ends that never get tied together. Read more
Publié le Juil 24 2003 par D. Cusick

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