Comments on: The Last Dickens http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kristen M. http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/comment-page-1/#comment-58893 Kristen M. Sat, 02 May 2009 18:05:49 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7819#comment-58893 I read and reviewed both Drood and The Last Dickens and the main difference is that Drood goes into some weird supernatural stuff and it takes Dickens and Wilkie Collins as characters but not in a historically accurate way. <a href="http://webereading.com/2009/03/new-release-last-dickens.html" rel="nofollow">The Last Dickens</a> takes actual historical facts and builds a story into them that is fanciful but in no way impossible. <a href="http://webereading.com/2009/01/early-review-drood.html" rel="nofollow">Drood</a> was just ridiculously impossible and strange and I believe libelous. I read and reviewed both Drood and The Last Dickens and the main difference is that Drood goes into some weird supernatural stuff and it takes Dickens and Wilkie Collins as characters but not in a historically accurate way.

The Last Dickens takes actual historical facts and builds a story into them that is fanciful but in no way impossible. Drood was just ridiculously impossible and strange and I believe libelous.

]]> By: t.h. http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/comment-page-1/#comment-58879 t.h. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:54:56 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7819#comment-58879 It's hard, damn near impossible, to be completely original after almost 2000 years of some form or another of printed word... It’s hard, damn near impossible, to be completely original after almost 2000 years of some form or another of printed word…

]]> By: Alan Cranis http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/comment-page-1/#comment-58878 Alan Cranis Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:33:28 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7819#comment-58878 I know about, but haven't read, the Simmons book. But I very much enjoyed the Perez-Reverte novel concerning Dumas. There are probably lots of authors who do or have done the kind of stories Pearl does. I know about, but haven’t read, the Simmons book. But I very much enjoyed the Perez-Reverte novel concerning Dumas. There are probably lots of authors who do or have done the kind of stories Pearl does.

]]> By: t.h. http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/comment-page-1/#comment-58877 t.h. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:40:57 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7819#comment-58877 well..."The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte preceded any of this guy's work by almost 10 years, & Pearl's first work ("Dante Club") came out 4 years after "The Ninth Gate" based on above novel hit theaters...but hey...if you follow things all the way back, most books or titles or movies or songs are all, at least thematically, ripped off of someone else's work...Not that this is ripped off...Just a general observation. well…”The Club Dumas” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte preceded any of this guy’s work by almost 10 years, & Pearl’s first work (“Dante Club”) came out 4 years after “The Ninth Gate” based on above novel hit theaters…but hey…if you follow things all the way back, most books or titles or movies or songs are all, at least thematically, ripped off of someone else’s work…Not that this is ripped off…Just a general observation.

]]> By: Craig http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-last-dickens/comment-page-1/#comment-58876 Craig Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:19:39 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=7819#comment-58876 Interesting that this should show up so soon after Dan Simmons' very similar Drood. How do the books compare? Interesting that this should show up so soon after Dan Simmons’ very similar Drood. How do the books compare?

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