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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Best of its Kind, 15 Mar 2006
In response to an earlier review, I have just reached the point where I can read this again, 10 years after first reading it, and I can confirm that it just gets better with time. Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Conan Doyle are all pastiched wonderfully and knowingly in this book, but with a level of interpretation which eludes all but the most observant readers on first reading - myself included. I finished the book on first reading with the nagging feeling that the understanding the narrator arrives at by the end is missing something important - and the joy reading this the second time around is tracking this hidden plot beneath the explicit plot. With the apparent revival of interest in the Victorian mystery in recent years - witness the success of Fingersmith, another great read - I am amazed that this masterpiece is relatively little known. Perhaps it is the 1200 pages that put off casual readers? If you are willing to lose yourself completely for weeks or months, this is the book to do it in.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
The Quincunx, 31 Jan 2006
1,200+ pages - daunting but I was going on holiday. I read it within four days and could not put it down. It is and will remain as one of my most memorable reads. As another reviewer said "I can't wait to read it again"
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
historical masterpiece, 4 Nov 2002
I wanted a complete change from the type of books I had been reading and after The Unburied, also brilliant! I brought Quincunx. I can sympathise with one reviewer on the US site who wouldn’t get passed the first few pages, I made it after the forth attempt and I’m so glad I persevered for this is a wonderful book!! The plot is just unrelenting, hurling the main character(s) from one adventure to the next. The detail is breath taking, the descriptions of poverty seem so real and the characters, well drawn out and in so much detail... I can’t recommend this book enough, it’s brilliant!
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