Teaser Tuesday: The Prague Cemetery

Like a spoon stirring in cream and sugar in my coffee cup, the Wheel of Time has turned to Teaser Tuesday.

Just in case you don’t know, Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! All you have to do is grab the book you’re currently reading, open to a random page and share a few sentences from that page. But make sure you don’t share any spoilers!*

*I wish I could take credit for this introduction, but I shamelessly stole it from Heather over at bitsnbooks. To help me make amends, you should go check out her blog.

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This week, my current read is The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. I’ve never read anything by Eco before, although I’ve been meaning to for some time. With his passing this past Friday, I thought it a fitting time as any to begin. Now, many might start with his popular The Name of the Rose, but I’m still feeling sick from Dan Brown’s treatment of Grail lore in The Da Vinci Code.

The Truly Random Number Generator sends us to page 105:

Adultery with old-fashioned gentlemen or with respectable clergymen no longer amuses our duchesses. They never tire of the bizzare, the exotic, the monstrous; they let themselves be wooed by patchouli-scented characters made up like women.

Hmm . . .

In Retrospect

I decided to read all of Dean Koontz’s “Frankenstein” series from the beginning; luckily, I can find or get the first four books through my local library (remember, I won book five last week).

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein – Book One: Prodigal Son

I read this book because it’s the first book of a five-book series, and I won a paperback copy of the fifth book from my local library.

Despite a promising plot, the trope-and-cliche-ridden story is slow and predictable; in short, a 400+ page introduction to the series’ main characters, none of whom undergo any sort of real, fundamental change over the course of the book.

As a stand-alone book, two stars.