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Carregando... The Astronomer: A Novel of Suspensede Lawrence Goldstone
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I had mixed feelings about this book. I liked the subject - a suspense novel set in the 16th century in France during the time of the Reformation. Does the sun revolve around the earth or does the earth revolve around the sun? The answer is very politically charged in this book. People are dying for the truth (literally). However, the dialog seems a bit stilted and the writing isn't the best. I was left unsatisfied in some areas. Not all the characters are developed enough. I enjoyed the book enough to keep reading - there are some interesting happenings going on - but I was a bit disappointed in that it didn't seem to become as much of an engaging page turner as I was hoping. ( ) A fairly quick and breezy read, set in 1534 France and starring a young theology student (who also happens to be the bastard son of the Duke of Savoy) caught between the forces of the Inquisition and Calvin's Lutherans. Faverges is tasked with a delicate duty: discovering a secret manuscript that could change the way the world perceives religion. If you read closely or have much interest in the history of science at all, you'll figure out what that is fairly quickly, but then you get to read for another hundred pages or so until the big reveal. Fairly well plotted, for the most part, and overall not an uninteresting story. Amaury Faverges was asked by Ory, the Inquisitor to infiltrate the Lutherans and find out what great discovery they had found. It was something that could change Christianity forever. Something to do with the book of Genesis. I enjoyed the story very much. In the sixteenth century what superstitious fools did in the name of God was so barbaric. But even today third world countries do the same thing in the name of God. I guess, some people have not come very far in the name of Religion.
"Goldstone keeps his 16th-century themes—murder, religious fanaticism, espionage and court intrigue—moving at a 21st-century pace." "Goldstone brings the sights, sounds, and furious politics of 16th-century France to vivid life, but his major characters are under-imagined—stick figures out of historical fiction central casting." Distinctions
Paris, 1534. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges--the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science--is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I. Working undercover, Amaury journeys south to the liberal court of the king's sister, Marguerite of Navarre, the alleged heart of the conspiracy. The deeper he probes, the more Amaury is forced to confront his own religious doubts; and when he discovers a copy of Copernicus's shocking manuscript showing the sun at the center of the universe, he knows the path he must follow. Replete with characters and events from history--from the iconoclastic Rabelais to the burning of heretics in Paris to preacher John Calvin and Copernicus himself--The Astronomer is a powerful novel of love and betrayal, and a thrilling portrait of what might well have happened at a hinge point in history when science and ancient religious belief collided. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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