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I usually love Christopher Moore's books, but this one was truly awful. The only part I liked was the narrator, Euan Morton, who did a good job with each character.
I didn't mind that the story skips back and forth through time; I find it easy to figure out "when" it is. I just felt the story was a mess. Somewhere in the first 4 hours of this 10 hour audible book, I no longer cared about the characters or where the sacre bleu came from, I just wanted the story to end. I kept listening in hopes t ...more
I didn't mind that the story skips back and forth through time; I find it easy to figure out "when" it is. I just felt the story was a mess. Somewhere in the first 4 hours of this 10 hour audible book, I no longer cared about the characters or where the sacre bleu came from, I just wanted the story to end. I kept listening in hopes t ...more
I picked this off the new book shelf in the library because it was about Paris and I can't resist books about Paris. If I was catagorizing it, I would say it was a fantasy. It is about artists living in Montmartre area of Paris in the 1890s trying to solve the mystery of Van Gogh's death - was it suicide... or murder? And why are these artists, the impressionists and others, losing parts of their memories? And who is the mysterious Colorman and the woman called Bleu? So delicious to have the cha
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Delightful, entertaining and with snippets of interesting tidbits about a smattering of the Impressionist painters of the late 1800s, Sacre Bleu was a curious and wiling suspension of disbelief read. The plot centers around the mystery of Vincent Van Gogh’s apparent suicide and the quest to solve it. Introduced in the story are Monet (my favorite French Impressionist), Manet, Renoir, Cezanne and others. Loved the paintings interspersed in the book and the blue print! Not a novel that taxes the b
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What WAS that? Absurdist? Satirical? Historical? Hysterical?
I recommend the hardback version because the painting vignettes are in color and arranged nicely in the text. Black and white just will not do.
I recommend the hardback version because the painting vignettes are in color and arranged nicely in the text. Black and white just will not do.
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