About this title: A hilarious and offbeat collection of the wildest and weirdest book titles, subtitles, and author names ever compiled. This unique and fun collection includes color illustrations of some of the most extraordinary book jackets ever produced as well as some of the most unusual book descriptions ever printed.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 10/30/2007
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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Description: Very good. By Russell Ash, Brian Lake; ISBN: 0061346659; Pub. : Harper Perennial; Pub. Date: 2007-11-01; Media: Paperback; Weight: 7.2 oz.; This book has been gently read, if at all. Very slight wear on cover, all else is like-new. by Russell Ash, Brian Lake; ISBN: 0061346659; Pub. : Harper Perennial; Pub. Date: 2007-11-01; Media: Paperback; Weight: 7.2 oz.; This book has been gently read, if at all. Very slight wear on cover, all else is like-new. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061346651ISBN:0061346659
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It took me about a year and a half to read Royal Heist. Not continuously, of course. I started it back in December of 2007, struggled through the first few chapters, and when it had to go back to the library, didn't renew it. Here comes 2009, and I'm going through my backlist cleaning it out, so I put the book on hold again and pick up where I left off. (I get questions about that sort of thing. Honestly, I don't find it any harder to do that after eighteen months than I do putting a book down at night and picking it up again the next morning. I don't know why.) I'm glad I did, because it does markedly improve once you're farther into it, but I came very close to abandoning it for good after the first seventy-five pages or so. Be warned.
The novel concerns Edward de Jersey, formerly Eddie Jersey, a thief and con man during his younger years. With his friends James Driscoll and Tony Wilcox, he was part of a band of thieves known as the Three Musketeers, who after pulling off one of the biggest heists in British history, quit their lives of crime and went legitimate. Until, that is, all three invest in an internet startup run by someone even more fraudulent than they are. De Jersey, now a Thoroughbred owner with a horse who has a great deal of promise for next year's Derby, has no intentions of his ship going down, much less him going down with it. But the more he thinks about it, the more he has only one option: revive the Three Musketeers and pull off an even more audacious robbery, one that will return to them the hundreds of millions of pounds they lost.
Once we get into the planning of the heist, the book picks up. We don't get there for quite a while, however, and the setup is interminable. What's more odd is that the book's three-act structure would dictate a similarly detailed description of the police investigation after the heist (which occurs in act 2, naturally), but that part of the book is skimped on, glossed over in comparison to the setup and the robbery itself. Where we get detailed characterizations of the players on the shadowy end of things, the cops are no more than cardboard cutouts, and wet ones at that.
"Good for a few laughs--basically a book of lists of bizarre book titles. I think my favorite chapters were "Sex and Marriage," "Food," and "Innuendo"--most of the books mentioned were written in the 1800s or earlier and the writers clearly had no idea how their titles might be construed. The "Travel" titles were pretty amusing, too, just because the translation was so bad! Fun to flip through but really only good in small doses--after a while it can get boring just to read random titles."
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