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Labyrinth |  | Author: Kate Mosse
Creators: Emilia Fox, Anton Lesser
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Rating:  516 reviews
Sales Rank: 130950
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged edition
Pages: 7
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0752874756
EAN: 9780752874753
ASIN: 0752874756
Publication Date: December 8, 2005
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A spellbinding adventure story of courage, destiny and betrayal, time-shifting between medieval and contemporary Carcassonne. Two readers tell the stories of the main characters: Emilia Fox read the contemporary sections and Anton Lesser reads the medieval sections.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 516
 Compelling Read September 3, 2010
robert
I cannot understand all the negative reviews I thought the book was great,fast moving, easy read , kept me engrossed, and described in great detail, and although it kept jumping to and thro from the twelth century to 2005, both era's were brought to an exciting conclusion,it was easy to keep with the plot, its the first book i have read written by Kate Mosse, but it wont be the last.
 what a bore! August 27, 2010
Ms. Lr Stephens (UK, Dorset)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I too had heard excellent reviews on this book, and thought maybe I wasnt giving it much of chance after becoming unsatisfied with it but thankfully a LOT of people have found this book an utter dissapointment! Iam about half way through and literally all that has happened is a cave is discovered and the skeleton remains have been found....and Alais rode out on her own to find her father..utterly pointless. Im not sure whether I can even bring myself to finish it, the two female characters drive me mad, the plot is flat and it is so incredible slow please please get a move on! Oh and people that are saying its like Dan brown are deluded.
Poor fare August 16, 2010
Robert Francis (Brussels)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just to ensure that the mad 5-star reviewers don't win out I feel I have to give this one star for the one-dimensional characterisation, contrived plot, and ridiculous conclusion. Seriously poor stuff. And yes, I did read the whole thing - in under a week. If you don't laugh your way through you'll cry.
Cynical excerise by a literary type or just emperors new clothes? July 31, 2010
shazai
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
On hearing that my wife and I were having a holiday in the Languedoc, a work colleague asked us if it was because of this book. I had no idea of any connection but I had seen the book in bookshops and my interest was piqued to hear it was about the area we were about to visit. On reading that the author was connected with the Orange Prize I was convinced and bought it to read whilst we were staying in our beautiful hired Maison de Maitre, half an hour's drive from Carcassonne.
On reading the hackneyed descriptions of Alice early in the book (slim tanned arms and determined expression, of course) I started to wonder if buying this book had been such a good idea. By the time I had dragged myself to the first sex scenes - "his voice straining with desire as he plunged deep inside her" - I started to wonder if the good reviews in the press signalled a mass psychosis or were just a case of 'you scratch my back' within the book industry.
Now, I am considered by many friends as a bit of a philistine when it comes to my choice of reading. Disparigingly, my wife describes many of my choices as 'raised gold lettering over burning aeroplane' pulp fiction. So my reactions can hardly be put down to literary snobbery. I think a great bestseller novel can be high quality the same way I think a good pop song can be high art. I have also read plenty of books that can be described as Chick Lit so it was not the occasional focus on feelings, communications and relationships that put me off. I really enjoyed The Historian, for example.
I do agree with reviewers who say that Kate Mosse appears to have done her research well. I also agree with others that her habit of writing the English translation of an Occitan term directly after the words in the middle of a statement is really jarring. I looked forward to the chapters on the Albigensian crusade for the history but always felt unsatistfied at the end of them due to their brevity and how long it seemed to take for anything to happen. The biggest problem, in my view, was that many of the passages just jumped out as crude, wrong or just thoughtless.
For example, when being knocked unconscious one does not feel the blow as the last thing before 'fading to black'. At least, we have no memory of it. Perhaps this is because a blow powerful enough to knock us out destroys our short-term memory of the event (hell, I don't know) but I think it's ascribing a little too much omniscience to the narrator to think she's taking this into account. I rather think it's just sloppy writing. Perhaps Ms Mosse has never been knocked out or didn't think to ask anyone who had what it might be like.
Many passages like this just slapped me in the face as I read and disturbed my trail throughout the novel. Combined with the forced way the two main stories intertwine I found this book hard work. Something I do not expect from a 'commercial bestseller' type book.
I am still trying to uncurl my toes from the excruciatingly badly described sex scenes. I hear it is really difficult to describe sex well, I would suggest that if Ms Mosse can't do it better than this that she doesn't make the attempt.
I think it's fair to say that I didn't enjoy Labyrinth except for when I would read passasges out loud to my wife to confirm they were as bad as I thought they were. We'd both have a bit of a laugh, amusing ourselves for a short time. I will say it did take me a long time to finish despite my typical habit of reading a novel quickly from start to finish. Once I was beyond the first chapter I could only read it piecemeal at home in the evenings. Basically, I was too embarrassed to be seen with this book in public. Perhaps that last sentence is the best way to sum up my feelings about the book.
A shame on editors and celebrity reviewers both July 14, 2010
Frein
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I came by this book some months ago and saved it for a time when I knew I would be recovering from surgery and need a rattling good read. I cannot express my disapointment adequately. It is too long - by about half. It is poorly researched and even more poorly drawn. It suffers from poor characterisation. Characters pop up unexplained in the middle - the American she once met at a party 10 (ten!) years ago - or disappear without explanation then play an apparently vital, though to me incomprehensible, role at the climax - the police officers. I forced myself to continue through the final 200 pages when the narrative tone changed again and Audric rattled Alice through 800 years of knowledge whilst Alais spent decades living rough, but I found I was skipping sentences, then paragraphs, then pages without much effect on my understanding. The endings were predictable, unemotional and, most diappointing of all, left me none the wiser about the importance of the grail to any of the characters or the world at large.
If the draft had been taken in hand by a competent editor the various plot ideas could have been honed down, much would have been taken away and the story, sub plots and characters would have benefitted immeasurably. I am sure it became a "number 1 bestseller" by virtue of "pile it high sell it cheap" commercial deals with retailers as often happens, but I astonished that the reviewers in the national press who are quoted on the cover and on this site were so lacking in either judgement or integrity as to praise the book to the highest. After reading this, The Da Vinci Code begins to look like a serious academic work. That, at least, would have kept me entertained while incapacitated!
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