Cigars of the Pharoah (The Adventures of Tintin)
by Hergé
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Author: HergéEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1975-04-30
ISBN: 0316358363
Number of pages: 62
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Book Review: "At home they call me Tintin": Cigars of the Pharaoh
Summary: 3 Stars
This fourth installment in the Adventures of Tintin stories has a lot going for it. Besides possessing the perfunctory Tintin suspense and drama, this story marks the debut of the Thompson twins (les Duponts in the original French) and the nefarious Rastapopoulos, billionaire, movie tycoon, and ... well, y'know, general evildoer guy.
Unique to this adventure is Dr. Sophocles Sarcophagus, the somewhat sanity-deficient Egyptologist whom Tintin encounters on a ship at the beginning of this story. This character is a textbook example of Herge's wonderful background characters, who proliferate in nearly every Tintin tale (the most notable exception being Tintin in Tibet, but I digress). A wonderfully memorable scene in Cigars of the Pharaoh is that in which Tintin learns to converse with elephants. The ending is something of a cliffhanger, causing the suitably hooked reader to experience an almost maniacal need to get his/her hands on The Blue Lotus!
A final comment: it is interesting to note that in redoing this story long after the completion of its original version, Herge has included a reference on page 1 to Marlinspike (Captain Haddock's family estate; Haddock and the house did not appear in the series until the later adventures The Crab With The Golden Claws and Red Rackham's Treasure). It's unlikely that Herge neglected to realize the continuity problem, but is this simply an indication of his having a bit of fun? Who knows? It's curious, anyway!
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