Hawksmoor

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Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor (2010, Penguin Books, Limited)

288 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2010 by Penguin Books, Limited.

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1 star (1 review)

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1 star

This is a terrible book. I have stared at its 270 pages without actually being able to read them. It's just so abysmally written than I could not grasp it at all. My mind would just slip after a sentence or two, and eventually I would notice that my eyes had just moved over another page full of words without knowing what they contain.

What I got from this book: there are two blokes named Nicholas, one is a dull satanist who builds churches with a secret ingredient in the 1710s, and one who investigates murders in those churches in the 1980s. In the end of the book, they merge into one single space-time paradoxical freak. That's all that happens. Now you know it all. Don't bother reading the book.

Subjects

  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general