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Rent The Historian
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Narrator: Joanne Whalley
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Fiction - Suspense
Retail Price: $39.98
Discs: 10
Synopsis
The specter of the supernatural infuses this academic thriller, the debut of author Elizabeth Kostova. In 1972 Amsterdam, a sheltered, motherless teenager stumbles across an ancient book imprinted with a dragon and stuffed with 40-year-old, mysteriously addressed letters. Gradually, her father reveals the link between the book and various attempts to discover the tomb of the brutal warrior/ruler Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula. Those who choose to become part of the search generally end up paying with their careers and their lives. Despite (or perhaps because of) these dire warnings, the nameless young woman finds herself compelled to discover who Dracula truly was...and whether he still exists today.
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Reviews
stuck thru to the end, b/c i have long commute and no other CD arriving for a while. kept waiting for some historic details or some new dracula angle to emerge or some reason to be interested in the characters but it never happened. it's like a child's simplified board book version of dracula.
There have been a few dumb books that I have read in my life and this ranks up there with the dumbest. Listening just made it funnier with the eerie violin music and Dracula's Hollywood voice. I was glad that I had the abridged version and didn't plow through 700 pages. Kostova made a good attempt, but where was she going with this theme? It was so convienent to have all those letters left behind by all the main characters. Probably will make a gory movie.