11.02.2007
Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich, 370 pages, hardcover
Overall Grade: C+
Entertaining I guess. I like historical fiction. This book promised to marry historical fiction to occultish-scientism, mythology and secret societies. In the end, I felt just as ill-informed and befuddled as the protagonist is for most of the novel. Plot: American Ethan Gage (erstwhile assistant to Benjamin Franklin) has won an Egyptian medallion in a card game. Unfortunately people then start trying to kill him for this perplexing little thing - so Ethan tags along with his bud Talma to escape France and join up with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt... with any luck he'll figure out why the medallion is so important before someone kills him for it!
Recommended to: *shrugs* It didn't whet my literary appetite, why would it whet your's?
Overall Grade: C+
Entertaining I guess. I like historical fiction. This book promised to marry historical fiction to occultish-scientism, mythology and secret societies. In the end, I felt just as ill-informed and befuddled as the protagonist is for most of the novel. Plot: American Ethan Gage (erstwhile assistant to Benjamin Franklin) has won an Egyptian medallion in a card game. Unfortunately people then start trying to kill him for this perplexing little thing - so Ethan tags along with his bud Talma to escape France and join up with Napoleon's expedition to Egypt... with any luck he'll figure out why the medallion is so important before someone kills him for it!
Recommended to: *shrugs* It didn't whet my literary appetite, why would it whet your's?
Labels: genre: fiction, genre: historical, media: book
