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Any "mystery solving" books you can recommend me?

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Melhisedek, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. Melhisedek Gems: 5/31
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    Like "The Da Vinci Code"... Although I don't agree with the book I couldn't put it down once I started reading.

    So I'm after something similar, thriller or some kind of mystery solving. I've read rest of Dan Browns books and none kept me intrigued the way Da Vinci Code did. So anything remotely similar goes :)
     
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    There are a few:

    "The Eight" by Katherine Neville.

    "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.

    "The Name of the Rose" by Eco
     
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    I agree with Fabius Maximus's list. I would add that for "The Name of the Rose" it is very helpful to purchase the little paperback companion that annotates the parts where the narrator and the characters slip in and out of other languages and gives background information on the religious, political, economic, and social culture of the time.

    And I just found the info on the companion book - it's The Key to The Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages by Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, Robert J. White.

    If you like a challenge, read The Name of the Rose without the companion book. It's not an easy read but I found it satisfying enough that I've gone back to it several times over the years.
     
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    I read The Name of the Rose without the companion, ugh. Took me forever.
     
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