{"id":116,"date":"2005-08-21T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=116"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:12:02","slug":"the-club-dumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/116","title":{"rendered":"The Club Dumas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Club Dumas<\/a><\/em> (1993) Arturo Perez-Reverte<\/a> translated by Sonia Soto (1996)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I started this book, but couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of familiarity. Then I realized that I’d seen a movie of this story. The Ninth Gate (starring Johnny Depp) was the movie of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So I’ve put it down for now. The movie was creepy and somewhat scary, and that’s not what I’m in the mood for.
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The Club Dumas (1993) Arturo Perez-Reverte translated by Sonia Soto (1996) I started this book, but couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of familiarity. Then I realized that I’d seen a movie of this story. The Ninth Gate (starring Johnny Depp) was the movie of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas. 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