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Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
Great review from Kell here.
Richard and Judy Book Club info here.
I'm just over 200 pages in, and I have to say, it's really drawing me in. I'm getting to know the 2 main characters, and the story is evolving nicely. The size of the book was worrying me, but I think I'm going to enjoy it.
Richard and Jusdy's site sell it for £5.99 plus £3.50 postage, but there are better bargains around...
Buy from Amazon £3.99 + £2.75 postage
Buy from BOL £3.19 + £1 postage
Is anyone reading, has read etc?
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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If anyone is interested...
In the prologue, Mosse gives glimpses of several leading characters. But she doesn’t tell you who is who, which to sympathise with and which to condemn. What effect does this have on how you, as reader, begin the novel?
l Also in the prologue, there are glimpses of the two time periods. Do you think it is important that, after the prologue, the author starts the novel proper with 10 chapters set in the medieval past? How did you feel when the action moved to contemporary France in chapter 11?
l How quickly did you discover that some of the modern characters mirror or echo characters from the past? Which ones did you spot first? What were the clues?
l Do you see Guilhem as an unhappy character who never fully atones for his betrayal of Alaïs, or does he finally put things right?
l Have you ever felt, like Alice, such an affinity with a place that you seem to know who must have previously lived there and the emotions they enjoyed or endured?
l There are very few scenes of violence in Labyrinth, but those few are extremely severe. Do you think they were too much, not enough or just right?
l Some of Kate’s medieval characters are real, in the sense that people with those names lived and breathed in the circumstances narrated in the novel 800 years ago. Did you notice anything different about the ‘real’ characters? (For example, Raymond-Roger Trencavel, Agnès de Montpellier, Simon de Montfort and others.)
l Although the Labyrinth story and the trilogy of special books have a spiritual element, they exist alongside Catharism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, not as part of any of these religions. How do you think the author handles questions of faith?
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Kell said:[. The day we arrived I told my dad there was this little coffee shop round the corner & described it down to a tee. There it was, right where I'd said it would be. !
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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I think I'm going to have to buy this one, especially as Tash has just informed me that she's bought it now, LOL
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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LOL Tash, I'll have a look to see if Asda have it tomorrow. Big Grin
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Whats Bol Michelle, I'm having a *dense* moment, lol
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Michelle said:Don't forget Bol have it for £19 plus £1 postage Big Grin
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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I picked this one up by chance in Tescos for £3.73 - I don't normally buy from supermarkets, (preferring to support proper bookshops) but I remembered this thread and couldn't resist!!
You lot are influencing me to buy yet more......................!!
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Look at that, we've started something big on the Labyrinth thing - got a nice trend goingt there - LOL!
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07-09-2011, 03:01 PM
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Maureen said:Michelle said:Don't forget Bol have it for £19 plus £1 postage Big Grin
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