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The Book of Air and Shadows | 
| Author: Michael Gruber
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
List Price: $99.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 1238166
Format: Audiobook, Cd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 15
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 6.7 x 1.8
ISBN: 1400134498
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781400134496
ASIN: 1400134498
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery...or self-destruction.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 86 more reviews...
 Save your money and time August 10, 2008
Page 93. That's as far as I was willing to waste any more time waiting for this book to get to be worth reading.
 Engaging but not one for the ages August 1, 2008
If you like the DaVinci Code / Angels and Demons type of book this one will be for you - it is certainly better written than either of those, features more complete characters, and the mystery at its center is very enjoyable. But some of the characters are overly detailed but not really persons, while other very tangential characters are given more personhood than they warrant - "why am I learning so much about these people if this is all they are doing in the story?" The book also suffers something I have noted and learned to suffer in many of the Dan Brown / John Grisham series, being the omnipresent, omnipowerful villain class that suddently is not so capable and gets beaten. I am not a writer and can understand the problem of overcoming such a powerful antagonist in the story, but it can be disappointing all the same when you get to the end and the resolution is so simple. Not negative on this book at all, and I would certainly read others by Mr. Gruber, but it is not the world changer some have indicated.
The Book of Boredom and Dread July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a waste of money and time! I did finish the book but it was torturous. I dreaded reading it but made myself complete it. Never again will I do that! I found the characters to be unbelievable and irritating. This book put me to sleep many times. My advice to anyone thinking of buying this book is a resounding NO! If you still aren't quite sure, at least go the library, check it out and save your money!
A review of the first 56 pages July 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That's because I only managed to slog my way through that many. Phooey on this book. Another author who is paid by the word, not the idea or story telling abilities. Way too many digressions (even the narrator admits to that), and the old manuscript in olde English was a trial as well.
Life's too short to spend on books like this.
 Could have been good... July 7, 2008
After finally finishing this messy, plodding, self-conscious book, I read reviews by others, including the biggies...Washington Post, etc. It seems that everyone else loved this book that, for me, fell so far short of air and shadows that I was tempted to skip the ending and move on to something better. The topic is compelling. I'm a fan of the literary thriller in general and this could have been really good; that is, if you took out all the dull character studies where, I swear, I could hear Michael Gruber thinking of ways to sound intellectual and profound. It was Dan Brown with a broader vocabulary and a bigger ego. Yuck. A waste of a good idea.
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