- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Atria Books (18 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1416550305
- ISBN-13: 978-1416550303
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,326,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Caricatures not characters,
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This review is from: The Art Thief (Paperback)
Ienjoyed the art history bits, as this is my hobby. The plot was very convoluted. The book is let down by the lack of credible characters. These are stereotypical caricatures. Especially bad are the detectives (both English and French) and Professor Simon Barrow. No intelligent academic would address his students in such a manner. I think that the author tried too hard to create memorable characters and failed lamentably.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Poor & obvious plot,
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This was disappointing with an obvious plot, a broken storyline and too much lecturing of the reader.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
'Witty, fast-paced' my eye!,
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This review is from: The Art Thief (Paperback)
Oh my, where to start with this book. The only positive I can think of is that the author obviously knows his stuff and is passionate about it. But if you are looking for a `witty, fast-paced' novel that takes you on a `breathtaking journey', as was the description on the back of the book, give it a miss, because it is extremely misleading! The pace was excruciatingly slow. As for `witty' - there was no wit in this book at all, unless the author considers one of the characters calling his students `turkeys' or `sheep' was funny, or maybe one character repeatedly mistaking his vibrating phone in his pocket for something else...This book is more like a non-fiction work on art, art history, art crimes and is very informative in that respect but it felt like the author was cramming in as much of this stuff as he could, a lot not necessary. It made reading very hard-going - I felt like I had been reading for ages but it turned out that it was only a few pages! I was so tempted not to finish this book but I stuck it out, but my God it was painful. I kept hoping that soon the pace would pick up but it never did and was possibly one of the most boring books I've ever read. The ending I found most unsatisfactory. The writing style was atrocious - sometimes I thought that the dialogues the author wrote could never possibly take place in real life, so stilted. There were quite a few characters in the book, none of them particularly likeable and while the author tried to develop them, he didn't succeed, only giving us bits and pieces. And why does nearly everyone in the book smoke (and no I'm not from the anti-smoking brigade)? One other thing that really annoyed me - and not only in this book - some of the book is set in France, and Italy. Most of the book is in English but quite often you have French sentences or Italian ones - now my French is reasonably good and I know a bit of Italian so it's not that I don't understand the meaning - but what on earth is the purpose of this? To prove the author knows French and Italian? Most irritating. In short, do not believe a word in the product description as none of it is true. If you want a dissertation on art etc. go ahead and read it - otherwise give it a miss.
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