Codex
by Lev Grossman
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Author: Lev GrossmanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-08
ISBN: 0151010668
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Book Review: "Cerebral Thriller?" Only if you've just had a pan-galactic gargleblaster!
Summary: 2 Stars
I was really looking forward to "Codex" because of all the advance praise I read. I read reviews that claimed this was an intellectual thriller on a par with Eco and Iain Pears' later novels.
Oh well. Grossman has a garbled plot that leaves the reader holding a bit of twine at the end, wondering where the story disappeared to. The characters are flat, but even worse, the story leads nowhere with nary a red-herring to get in the way. Caveat emptor!
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