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zibley3's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
jamieh2024's review against another edition
4.0
I found myself enjoying this entry into the Doyle series nearly as much as the original entry. While not high culture they are entertaining light reading and perhaps that alone is enough to recommend them.
kurwaczytaj's review against another edition
4.0
Pokračování sedmičky, které se přesunuje z Británie do USA a odehrává se již v době, kdy se A. C. Doyle, který na základě předchozí knihy vytvořil svého Velkého detektiva a nyní zažívá obrovský úspěch, který jej sice finančně zajistí ale zároveň jej neskutečně štve.
Druhý díl je ještě epičtější. Obě hlavní postavy, které představují dobro a zlo jsou nyní méně černobílé. Do dobrodružství se zapojují "supermani" různých světových náboženství a jejich cesty se pomalinku potkávají až vytvoří malou "armádu dobra", která jak je zvykem zachrání Svět.
Druhý díl je ještě epičtější. Obě hlavní postavy, které představují dobro a zlo jsou nyní méně černobílé. Do dobrodružství se zapojují "supermani" různých světových náboženství a jejich cesty se pomalinku potkávají až vytvoří malou "armádu dobra", která jak je zvykem zachrání Svět.
jch2022's review against another edition
4.0
I found myself enjoying this entry into the Doyle series nearly as much as the original entry. While not high culture they are entertaining light reading and perhaps that alone is enough to recommend them.
williemeikle's review against another edition
4.0
When I first read THE SIX MESSIAHS, I was more than a bit disappointed with it. I wanted a sequel to the excellent LIST OF SEVEN. I wanted Jack Sparks and Conan Doyle, hunting down the bad guy, with all the appropriate Sherlockian nods and winks that would entail. What we get instead is a dizzying host of characters, hardly anything of Jack Sparks, and not much at all of Doyle.
If you're looking for Sherlock in this one, you're really looking in the wrong place. THE SIX MESSIAHS is a different beast entirely. It's more about suffering, and redemption, and the power of cults than anything else.
On this second reading I got the point a lot quicker than on the first, and I raced through it. Frost is great at pacing, has an eye for what makes a character memorable, and an inventive imagination that keeps the whole thing careering along.
There's a bit too much head-hopping around the point of view characters for my liking, and even a couple of places where it gets confusing trying to figure out which head we're supposed to be in at the time. And in the rush to the finish, a couple of characters get sidelined and don't really get to finish their part of the story.
But that's just quibbling. All in all, it's a fine romp. And despite what I said earlier, there is indeed a glimpse of Sherlock, right at the end, when the right thing is done and most of the threads are tied up.
I keep hoping for another sequel from Frost to see what Doyle gets up to next, but the new Twin Peaks will do just fine in the meantime.
If you're looking for Sherlock in this one, you're really looking in the wrong place. THE SIX MESSIAHS is a different beast entirely. It's more about suffering, and redemption, and the power of cults than anything else.
On this second reading I got the point a lot quicker than on the first, and I raced through it. Frost is great at pacing, has an eye for what makes a character memorable, and an inventive imagination that keeps the whole thing careering along.
There's a bit too much head-hopping around the point of view characters for my liking, and even a couple of places where it gets confusing trying to figure out which head we're supposed to be in at the time. And in the rush to the finish, a couple of characters get sidelined and don't really get to finish their part of the story.
But that's just quibbling. All in all, it's a fine romp. And despite what I said earlier, there is indeed a glimpse of Sherlock, right at the end, when the right thing is done and most of the threads are tied up.
I keep hoping for another sequel from Frost to see what Doyle gets up to next, but the new Twin Peaks will do just fine in the meantime.
kansass's review against another edition
4.0
En la linea del primero de la serie, The List of Seven, pero quizás un poco más reposado y con varios hilos argumentales que se van uniendo poco a poco. Me encanta como escribe Mark Frost, es atmosférico y sus personajes tienen una gran carga psicológica, especialmente Jack Sparks, la joya de la corona en esta serie: un personaje enigmático y misterioso, en continua lucha contra el mal pero al mismo tiempo profundamente atormentado y herido, buscando la redención. Por atmósferas y por argumento me ha recordado a dos series de tv: por una parte Penny Dreadful, en lo que se refiere a la nota pulp y gótica, y por otra parte, Carnivale, el mal apoderándose de todo, todo muy en la linea de Twin Peaks. La eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal, un tema universal.
captainfez's review against another edition
3.0
The second (and so far final) in Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost's series of books featuring a fictionalised Arthur Conan Doyle as a character isn't a great departure from the first. Once more, our trusty author - now thoroughly jack of Holmes - is caught up in world-changing events of a supernatural nature and must fight with Jack Sparks (Holmes' inspiration in this world) to prevent catastrophe, and a universal loss of stiff upper lip.
On this outing, Doyle embarks on a tour of the US to escape his failing wife (and marriage). The trip to the land of the Yankee provides plenty of space for period detail, and also ensures Frost can add a fairly big dose of cowboy-and-religion imagery to the creeping Lovecraftian grimness featured in the first volume.
This time there's fewer Cockney lads around to provide excuses for terrible appropriation of rhyming slang. This is a good thing. In their stead, however, we have a fairly stock (though appealing) Japanese priest/assassin and a prisoner cowboy with a heart of gold. There's plenty of cut-out characters - religious adherents with the attention span of goldfish, preachers with demonic focus, mystical native Americans, Rabbis and their families who don't cry "oy vey!" at every opportunity (but might as well), a specimen of serial killer as well as some terrible, terrible actors. They're vibrant and thoroughly stereotypical, but that's fine: it's fun.
The story is serviceable, but nobody is really reading this for deep reflection on the human soul. Everything moves at a clip, and the tension rockets up in the latter part of the book where characters from the first story come out of the woodwork. It's all cinematic, and the reader can't help but think that handled a-la Raiders of the Lost Ark this would make a great film. Popcorn ahoy!
The problem is that the end of the story is a bit tacked on. It just... ends. There's a certain amount of hand-waving to explain away some parts of how we've come from a heavily plotted, intrigue-laden conspiracy-and-dreams story to what amounts to an evil genius lair boss-battle - but it's unsatisfying. Some characters just float off, and we're never really given a resolution for them. It's frustrating, and I wonder how different things would have been given a little more time or editorial input.
Still, this isn't great cap-L Literature. But it's a fantastically fun, pulpy read, as was the first. If you basically want more of the same, only this time with cowboys, then this is pretty much the thing for you.
On this outing, Doyle embarks on a tour of the US to escape his failing wife (and marriage). The trip to the land of the Yankee provides plenty of space for period detail, and also ensures Frost can add a fairly big dose of cowboy-and-religion imagery to the creeping Lovecraftian grimness featured in the first volume.
This time there's fewer Cockney lads around to provide excuses for terrible appropriation of rhyming slang. This is a good thing. In their stead, however, we have a fairly stock (though appealing) Japanese priest/assassin and a prisoner cowboy with a heart of gold. There's plenty of cut-out characters - religious adherents with the attention span of goldfish, preachers with demonic focus, mystical native Americans, Rabbis and their families who don't cry "oy vey!" at every opportunity (but might as well), a specimen of serial killer as well as some terrible, terrible actors. They're vibrant and thoroughly stereotypical, but that's fine: it's fun.
The story is serviceable, but nobody is really reading this for deep reflection on the human soul. Everything moves at a clip, and the tension rockets up in the latter part of the book where characters from the first story come out of the woodwork. It's all cinematic, and the reader can't help but think that handled a-la Raiders of the Lost Ark this would make a great film. Popcorn ahoy!
The problem is that the end of the story is a bit tacked on. It just... ends. There's a certain amount of hand-waving to explain away some parts of how we've come from a heavily plotted, intrigue-laden conspiracy-and-dreams story to what amounts to an evil genius lair boss-battle - but it's unsatisfying. Some characters just float off, and we're never really given a resolution for them. It's frustrating, and I wonder how different things would have been given a little more time or editorial input.
Still, this isn't great cap-L Literature. But it's a fantastically fun, pulpy read, as was the first. If you basically want more of the same, only this time with cowboys, then this is pretty much the thing for you.
bozimus's review against another edition
1.0
Few times has a sequel so disappointed me. The disappointment I experienced reading "The Six Messiahs" was nearly on a par with the disappointment I felt reading "Dune Messiah". "The List of 7" was a great book...but this sequel fell flat!
mangieto's review against another edition
3.0
2.5 pero mi molestia más grande fueron los errores de edición y por eso lo subo. De verdad, no soy un as de la puntuación, pero hasta yo entiendo para qué sirven los dos puntos (:).
En cuanto al libro, lo mejor es que de hecho Doyle no es un personaje activo en la intriga. Los personajes no están mal, son algo obvios y cuadrados, pero he leído peores. Y la trama es lo que se espera del género, sin novedades.
En cuanto al libro, lo mejor es que de hecho Doyle no es un personaje activo en la intriga. Los personajes no están mal, son algo obvios y cuadrados, pero he leído peores. Y la trama es lo que se espera del género, sin novedades.
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