Talk:The Club Dumas

What category of novel?

If you had to categorize this novel, where would you put it? I think I might go with satire, farce, mystery or a mixture thereof. I'm eager to hear other wikipedian's opinions. --Netizen 02:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Tough one! I'm leaning towards suspense/thriller if I had to define it under one genre, but there are definitely elements of several others. PoptartKing 06:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I now realize that didn't even mention why I asked this question in the first place. The reason is that the movie The Ninth Gate is part of a category of the pattern "Films based on (type of category here) books". Now it has been sorted into "Films based on horror books" - which I reverted - and then sorted into "Films based on fantasy books", where I feel it doesn't really belong either. But then again, what would be an alternative? That is if you insist on sticking to the "Films based on (type of category here) books" pattern at all. I'd appreciate your input. Cheers, Netizen 12:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Added {{thriller-novel-stub}}. —Viriditas | Talk 12:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Bibliography

For the bibliophiles out there I'm adding every book mentioned in The Club Dumas, including the ficitonal ones. If I've incorrectly placed a real book in the ficitonal list, please feel free to move it and add an ISBN if possible! brain 20:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

(Update) ok, I finished the list with I think every single published work even mentioned in the story. Feel free to link in any other Wiki pages on authors and/or ISBNs! brain 05:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

From Chapter 1 of Sonia Soto's translation: "Do you know any of my books?" I asked. "Some. Lupin, Raffles, Rocambole, Holmes, for instance." Now, it's rather unclear, and if anyone could compare it with the original that might help to settle the matter, but my strong opinion is that this is the title of one book, not a list of four. 91.105.22.60 (talk) 06:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

You could be right. The "title" refers to three fictional gentleman thieves, Lupin (Arsène Lupin), Raffles (A. J. Raffles), and Rocambole, and one fictional gentleman detective, Holmes (Sherlock Holmes). It would make sense for it to be one title, as the three thieves are seen as the antithesis of Holmes. It seems odd though, so maybe something was lost in the translation? The more I read this book, the more it seems like Dan Brown ripped off this book and Foucaults Pendulum to write Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. —Viriditas | Talk 07:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 12:22, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Bibliography

Does this page really need a list of every single book (both real and fictional) mentioned in the novel? I think it should be cut back to a much shorter list of the key books central to the plot. Thoughts? -Elizabennet | talk 19:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Plot section

- is iffy. Could do with less OR, especially near the end. ArdClose (talk) 20:37, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Too long plot summary ?

Some people seems to forget that Jimmy Wales clearly has stated that "Wikipedia has no limitations". If the text contents errors, bad english or unrelevant information it would be different. But simply state "this is too long" is not "Wikipedia manors". Boeing720 (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

2 Books?

"Corso's investigation leads him to seek out two copies of a rare book known as De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis"

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The book talsk about THREE copies found by Corso. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.110.0.8 (talk) 19:40, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, but he already has one copy, so he is indeed only seeking two. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:47, 8 October 2014 (UTC)