It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.
I've been reading this for a while. I'm about 20 pages from finishing part 1 which is all Dickens wrote before his death. I'm excited to get to the part that was completed by Madden.
From Goodreads.com: To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens in 2012, Unthank Books are publishing Sir David Madden's masterful new completion of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Dickens' last, and unfinished novel. In a work of incredible literary ventriloquism David Madden renders the greatest homage he can to the great author by creating an ending as faithful to Dickens' written intentions as possible. Closely following the clues clearly laid down by Dickens in his sadly incomplete version, David Madden seamlessly continues the story with a stunningly similar repertoire of comedy, psychological acuity, inimitable description and turn of phrase. Published in one volume with Madden succeeding the 'master,' this is at last a completion of the mystery which proves it to be as much a 'whydunnit' as a 'whodunnit' and affords real pleasure, finally and fully from start to finish.
It is literally as if Dickens has risen from his grave to finish the job.
From Goodreads.com: The Egyptian: A Suspense/Thriller
At a mausoleum in Cairo’s most notorious cemetery, a mercenary receives a package containing a silver test tube suspended in hydraulic stasis.
An investigative reporter tracking rogue biomedical companies is terrified by the appearance of a mummified man outside her Manhattan apartment.
A Bulgarian scientist who dabbles in the occult makes a startling discovery in his underground laboratory.
These seemingly separate events collide when Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, private investigators of cults, are hired by the CEO of an Egyptian biomedical firm to locate stolen research integral to the company’s new life extension product. However, after witnessing the slaughter of a team of scientists by the remnants of a dangerous cult thought long abandoned, Grey and Viktor turn from pursuers to pursued.
From the gleaming corridors of visionary laboratories to the cobblestone alleys of Eastern Europe to a lost oasis in the Sahara, Grey and Viktor must sift through science and myth to uncover the truth behind the Egyptian and his sinister biotech & before that truth kills them.
For fans of Steve Berry, Dan Brown, Douglas Preston and the X-files.
What are you reading this second week of 2012?
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I want to get back to The Egyptian. Have a great week of reading.
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying it. Did you read the first one in the series?
DeleteEdwin Drood sounds interesting. I know that there is also a musical based on the book, with multiple endings since there isn't a definite one.
ReplyDeleteHappy Reading!
I read the introduction in this version and it described how he came to the conclusion he did. It must be hard to complete a murder mystery.
DeleteI've never heard of these.
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DeleteI have GOT to pick up the Charles Dickens one!
ReplyDeleteReading right now a bunch of books on the kindle. Trying to get the TBR stack pared down. ;)
I tried to pare down my TBR pile during the holidays. I just added more books. It wouldn't be so bad if I could read faster.
ReplyDeleteI'm finishing The Book Thief. Very interesting to have the narrator be death.
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