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How to describe this book?
It encompasses 927 pages....explores the lives of several influential scientists, follows the right of succession in the UK. Yet at the same time it entertains the reader, encouraging them to read on.
I had bought "Confusion" which is the second book in the "Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson...and soon realised I needed to read "Quicksilver" first!
Anyone who has any interest in Science would possibly find this book enthralling

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the book is enthralling, to those who are interested in History and Science, but it also has an appeal to other readers quite simply as a meaty novel.

I read through this book a few weeks ago. I think it took me three days to read.
If you've read any of Minette Walters' books, you'll know that she's a very good author, writing about crime, usually with a psychological twist. This is not from the detective's viewpoint, the main character being a Reuters correspondent., she is in contact with the police, but the novel is not a police led one.
This novel left me wondering, but that is not a bad thing in this case.
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The cover of this book gives very little away, and it was refreshing not to be told what happens.
The bumph from the cover is brief and intriguing. And all I will add to it is, the book is very engrossing, and well worth a read.

Yes!!!!
One from my to be read list..at long last
The writing is very quirky, but then again, so is the fictional situation. Think of modern day London, think of the Tinkerbell potential death scene in Peter Pan, and you get the idea.
The ancient Greek gods are now living in central London, there are less and less people believing in them, so their power is diminishing. Into this mix walks "human" Alice...freelance cleaner...employed by Artemis...from there things go slightly off kilter.
The fact that that the human heroine is called Alice...and escapes.....unscathed from her adventures also has echos of Alice in Wonderland.
A hugely enjoyable novel.
If I say much more it might reveal the plot....this book is worth reading.

OK! I should apologise...Michel Faber is one of my favourite authors, and I just sped through this book. I will probably re-read in the future, as I re-read "Under the Skin", and find new things each time I read.
Faber is a brilliant author, and probably a "best kept secret", because if I say I love his books I usually get a blank look.
Fire Gospel is nowhere near the same subject matter as "Under the Skin", but he has given a potential idea the same weight. The novel is just as "urgent" to read...it only took me two days.
As yet I have liked all Faber's work
Here's the "bumph" from the back cover of the book.

when Theo Griepenkerl happens upon the fifth Gospel in a war-torn Iraqi museum, he can't believe his luck. Driven by greed and a lust for fame, he capitalises on his find by publishing it. His book is a sensation. But he can hardly imagine the incendiary consequences his discovery will have for Christians, Arabs, homicidal maniacs and Amazon customers alike.

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this is one of the "Myths" series of books published by Canongate.

I finished this last night....I just had to...I only had 40+ pages to read
To me the novel is very insightful, knowing what went on several years later. Tolstoy could not have foreseen the revolution.
Anna is a "tragic" character, she falls for someone whilst married, in a society that gives everything to the man....whatever.
She leaves he husband to set up home with her lover, also the father of her daughter, but as she is still officially married to her husband, it his name that claims Anna and her lover's child.
The end of part seven is very tragic, and part eight seems to me to be devoted to tying up all the ends neatly.
Anyone who knows their Russian history will spot that this might be the beginning of the rot.
The novel is worth reading, and once you sort out the naming in your head, fairly easy to follow.
I have the good luck to have read several Russian based novels, and understand the various names.
But.....let's be honest...who ever you are reading this...you are someones child, someones sibling, maybe someones spouse...without taking into consideration any other social circumstances...you might have three ways of address.
The Russian way of naming is not so odd...the endings point to the relationships.

I now have less than 200 pages to read of AK......It has become a book where I just want to read to the end of the next chapter. I am familiar with all the characters now, and am thoroughly enjoying. When I bought Anna Karenina, it was part of a set of seven published by Penguin as "wonders of the World". Maybe the others are as good, I did read one of them around halfway through whilst doing my degree, that's why I never finished it. Perhaps after you persevere through the first few chapters they all get easy?