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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Spook Who Spoke Again: A Short Story by Lindsey Davis (Falco: The New Generation) (Flavia Albia) (edizione 2015)di Lindsey Davis (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I really enjoyed this. As has been said, it's a bit of a misnomer to call it a Flavia Albia mystery, because it isn't one. Albia only gets mentioned, as the story is told by Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus, aged twelve (or probably eleven). I loved Postumus as a character; he's bright, he's interested in everything, and he considers that most people are pretty weird and illogical, but he tries his best to do what's expected of him (up to a point). In trying to emulate the detective exploits of his adopted father and eldest sister, there is only one way things are going to go. And they do. To be fair, there isn't really a great deal of actual plot here, but Postumus' unique voice makes up for that. It isn't so much a mystery story (because I guessed what the ending was going to be the minute I found out what the "mystery" was) as a story about how Postumus, who doesn't see the world the way most people do, deals with a new situation. It reminded me a lot of that scene you get in action films where the hero walks out of the fireball, completely unperturbed, but with what appears to be a localised apocalypse happening behind him... The story had several good moments and it was fun seeing Falco, Helena Justina, and Flavia Albia through the eyes of Falco and Helena's eleven (or twelve)-year-old son Postumus. Except that I thought Postumus himself was annoying—as did many of the characters—and I was just as glad the story ended when it did. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or perhaps eleven. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he worries who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligent yet sinister. He knows not many people like him. When his birth mother, Thalia the snake-dancer, takes him to live with her troupe of exotic performers, Postumus sees it as useful experience even though it involves him mucking out menagerie cages. No one anticipates how much havoc he will wreak. On his first day a tragedy occurs. No one else cares, so Postumus decides he alone must solve this crime and impose retribution on the guilty. As son and brother to the famous investigators Falco and Albia, he knows murder is punished by execution. Postumus single-mindedly sets out to accomplish this, sidetracked by nothing, not even a rehearsal of Falco's legendary play, The Spook Who Spoke... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Narrated by Postumus, this is very funny. I miss Falco's relatives in the new series, and Postumus is a true member of the clan. I hope he has further adventures, preferably narrated by himself. ( )