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The Eight
When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy. more
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- Posted: Sep-14-2009
Dan Brown Meets Sandra Brown in a Rousing Romantic Adventure
The Eight by Katherine NevilleThe story seemed like one that Dan Brown and Sandra Brown might have collaborated to create. It is a study of mysticism and mysterious formulas, treasure, clues and a wealth of historic personages wrapped in emotional relationships. A mysterious, ancient chess...
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- Posted: Aug-26-2009
WORST BOOK EVER!
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS BOOK IS SO HIGHLY RATED. IT IS BADLY WRITTEN & BADLY RESEARCHED. THE CHARACTERS ARE PREDICTABLE, THE STORY ARC BORING. The Catholic church are the good guys, the Knights Templar the bad guys ... don't waste your money.
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- Posted: Aug-24-2009
Implausible, full of holes, this secret power just doesn't add up
Noting the really bad aspects of this novel (lack of characterization, trite writing style, foreshadowing that often led nowhere, steamy romance built up out of whole cloth without any plausibility, sheer implausibility that so many historical figures were aware of this overblown secret, misuse...
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- Posted: Aug-17-2009
BIG Dissapointment
This realy let me down....given the unique plot line SO much more could have been done with it. Aside from the two main female protagoniss the rest of the line-up is either far too predicable or outright lame to the point of pain. If I had to stomach the "wise-gal" Lily for one more page I...
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- Posted: Aug-08-2009
One of my favorites
I read this book years ago and it's been one of my favorites since. I've told everyone I know about it and even got my husband, who is not a reader, to take a chance on this book. (He loved it!) Of course the plot is far fetched, that's the point, it's a work of fiction. There are actual...
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- Posted: Jun-02-2009
An awesome classic
This book was one of the best I've read in a very long time. It was way better than any of Dan Brown's novels...plus it was written like 15 years earlier. I'm surprised this book hasn't received more publicity. However, during the first few chapters, I felt like there was a lot of memorization of...
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- Posted: May-17-2009
Much better than the Da vinci code. :)
I have greatly enjoyed this fun and wonderful fiction. The plot is well laid out and the author balances and develops a really large cast of characters--which is not easy to do. I do not play chess, but found this thread to be fascinating, nevertheless. This is not literary fiction--but it is a...
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- Posted: May-08-2009
In the chess game of literature The Eight is a Stalemate
The idea of this novel has long intrigued me. A friend of mine had this novel about ten years ago. He told me of the plot and it was one that stayed with me until I finally came across this book this year and decided to purchase it. Once I got in the novel I discovered that I was in for two...
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- Posted: May-04-2009
At the end, a waste of time!
At the beginning, it seemed to be a great idea in a a great setting, both spatial and time... but then... I will try ti be as gentle as possible but it is evident that the author somehow got bored after page 450 and decied to just end a book that would never end... throwing us into the worst...
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- Posted: Jan-02-2009
Trying too hard
It seems that the author was too committed to trying to tie chess and the number eight to everything in life regardless of how ridiculous the plot needed to be to make it happen.Characters were pretty simple, and the "logic" explaining thier actions just didn't make sense much of the time. I...
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