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The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

Hardcover | Pages: 848 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 59557 Users | 7748 Reviews

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Title	:	The Luminaries
Author	:	Eleanor Catton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First U.S. Edition: October 2013
Pages	:	Pages: 848 pages
Published	:	October 15th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company (first published August 24th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery

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It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

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Original Title:	The Luminaries
ISBN:	0316074314 (ISBN13: 9780316074315)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Zealand
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (2013), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee (2014), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014) Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction (NZ Post Awards) (2014), RSL Encore Award Nominee (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2015)

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Ratings: 3.72 From 59557 Users | 7748 Reviews

Critique Of Books The Luminaries

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above. Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries There is certainly a lot to like about Eleanor's novel. Its structure is fascinatingly clever and reminds me a lot of the way Nabokov divided Ada, or Ardor. Part 1: 360 pgs, Part 2: 160 pgs, Part 3: 104 pgs, Part 4: 96 pgs, Part 5: 40 pages, Part 6: 26 pages, Part 7: 13 pages, Part 8: 10 pgs, Part 9: 6 pgs, Part 10: 6 pgs, Part 11: 4 pages, Part 12: 4 pages. Or looked at slightly

The curious case of the 3-star review I reviewed The Luminaries for We Love This Book [a web magazine that is now defunct]; here Ill simply attempt to explain why I gave such an accomplished book only 3 stars. Its just the sort of book I should have given 5 stars: my MA is in Victorian Lit., Charles Dickens is a favorite author, and I adore historical fiction, particularly Victorian pastiche: Possession, The Crimson Petal and the White and English Passengers.And yet The Luminaries didnt grab

I LOVED this- best book I've read in a long time. It gripped me from the beginning. Its a very clever, very well plotted intrigue of a book. Layer upon layer is added to the intrigue and all is not revealed until the final pages. Highly recommended.May 2018Still loved this on rereading. The audio was excellent. God knows how the narrator managed to do so many varied accents so well. It is the time of the gold rush in New Zealand, the 1860s, where a rich and full cast are brought together in what

The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 so obviously I had to someday read it. I love reading award winning books and/or critically acclaimed books because they make me feel superior I like to know what those with supposedly excellent taste and years of experience in critiquing books think is top quality. However The Luminaries is 832 pages of story in a hardback weighing 1.088kg (no I didnt take out my kitchen weighing scales and weigh it because that would be weird.. *awkward silence*)

This is the most cliched review you'll read today but: Show, don't tell.Like come on, guys! To know this axiom is to have completed the third grade. And yet there are authors--acclaimed and published authors--who do not abide by it. Such is Eleanor Catton. I didn't finish the book, but I'm hoping someone posts a spoilerish summary soon because in terms of plot and setting, the story is great. Any combination of these ideas--19th Century New Zealand Gold Rush Opium Murder Whore--is bound to be

I'm abandoning this book, with regret for having read it against my better judgement, without more thorough research. And yes, I'm two-starring and reviewing an unfinished book. If that offends you to your very core, then stop reading now. You've been warned!1. There's a trend among reviews of three stars or less on this book to say things like: Ill simply attempt to explain why I gave such an accomplished book only 3 stars. Its just the sort of book I should have given 5 stars.... I am ashamed.

Twelve men meet at the Crown Hotel in Hokitika, New Zealand, in January, 1866. A thirteenth, Walter Moody, an educated man from Edinburgh who has come here to find his fortune in gold, walks in. As it unfolds, the interlocking stories and shifting narrative perspectives of the twelve--now thirteen--men bring forth a mystery that all are trying to solve, including Walter Moody, who has just gotten off the Godspeed ship with secrets of his own that intertwine with the other men's concerns.This is