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The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Gatiss
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 3130
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743483790
EAN: 9780743483797
ASIN: 0743483790
Publication Date: July 4, 2005
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 Reading the book is torture July 24, 2008
Emma Cresswell
I have to say I was looking forward to reading this for my book club, yet sadly it wasn't worth my time. I lacked any interest for the characters in the novel and unfortunatly did complete the book after much torture. Some members of the book club however gave this a positive feedback, stating they enjoyed the book as it was different to most novels out at the moment.
Summary:
- Boring Characters (lacking any charisma or humour)
- No inticing storyline or plot
- No decent humour
+ The book is short and only takes a day or so to read
+ I Like Mark Gatiss (just a shame he can't write)
 Fun but pretentious July 8, 2008
L. Young (Stockton, UK)
Its a good story of derring-do with lots of satirical humour and odd Dickensian names adorning odd Dickensian characters. Very much something found in a penny dreadful perhaps although much cleverer than that.
However Gatiss knows it is much cleverer than that and that is The Vesuvius Club's major failing. Lucifer Box was a good character but a bit too pretentious (that may be the point of the character but one can go too far...) and I felt as though his 'cleverer than thou' attitude appeared to reflect the author's belief of the novel.
It was fun and it was witty and I will read the next one but I thought it could have been much better than it was.
3/5
 Brilliant June 1, 2008
PH (UK)
Brilliant story - only read this last year but am already almost finishing off the next book - Devil in Amber - and can't wait for the next due out in November.
Great stuff!!!
What a mix! February 7, 2008
Joanne D'Arcy (Portsmouth, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book comes across to me as a cross between, James Bond, Austin Powers with a mix of PG Wodehouse (although set slightly before his era of writing).
It is humourous in parts, rotten and delightful in others, and very macabre in it's way of dealing with the low life of the era. (Edwardian) I was expecting more than I got with this book, it got rather full of characters at times, and took some thought in who they all were and what their role was. The thread of the book was fast paced with a couple of little off shoots, Christopher Miracle's problems, the role of Bella but they all got nicely tied up in the end. (Something that not all books do) Lucifer Box, the main character was rather decadent in his behaviour and with some loose morals was able to infiltrate some of the more lower as well as higher elements of society. Good will always overcome evil in these stories and there was something reassuring about this as the story gathered pace towards the end.
The set out of each chapter, started to read more like a newspaper and the added pictures was merely odd in my opinion. An interesting read, something I wouldn't have picked up before but probably not an author I would pick up again.
Not really my pipe of opium December 6, 2007
Secret Spi (Germany)
"The Vesuvius Club" has a great idea in it, somewhere, and is well-written. There are some lovely one-liners and a sense of atmosphere. But the book left me ultimately unsatisfied. The story and characters never really gripped me as they should have: too many characters (albeit with cracking names!) pop up and don't really seem to play much part in the plot. There seem to be rather too many loose ends and some confusion as to when exactly in history the story takes place (I kept on thinking late 1880s/90s, the hey-day of Wilde and Beardsley, Jack the Ripper but then got a bit flummoxed by mention of "motor cars"). And the pictures didn't grab me, either.
All in all, when it comes to Edwardian Men of Mystery, I'll stick to Adam Adamant!
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