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Jonathan Pinnock

Auteur van The Truth About Archie and Pye

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Pinnock, Jonathan
Geboortedatum
1956-07-15
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male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Bedfordshire, England, UK

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This is a tough book to rate and even tougher to review.

When Tom finds himself accidentally in a possession of a briefcase containing the secrets of murdered mathematical geniuses, Archie and Pye, his life goes from meaningless and dull to manic. Tom gets sucked into a seedy underworld of mathematical conspiracies and intrigue. He's got to solve the problem of who killed Archie, Pye, and the briefcase's owner. I mean, he could just turn the briefcase over to the authorities – but then his life would go back to being uninteresting.

Was this book interesting? Most definitely.
Well written, researched, and edited? Hell, yes.
Compelling reading? Absolutely.
Likeable characters? [she screws up her face in thought] I suppose I quite liked Mo, the delivery driver from Tom's local Indian takeaway. The rest of them… Not so much. Tom is awful. But he's interestingly awful – and that's got to count for something, right? He's an absolute disaster of a human being.

I liked it. I've no idea why I liked it, but I did.
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clacksee | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 12, 2022 |
I thought this was a great read. Who knew math could be so thrilling and entertaining! Even though there was a lot of math stuff, I didn't feel overwhelmed or dumb. Nice mystery and characters were fun!

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
 
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McBeezie | 3 andere besprekingen | Jul 27, 2022 |
Ero incuriosito da questa serie di "mathematical mysteries", così ho provato a prendere il primo libro della serie. Sono rimasto deluso. Il problema non è che di matematica ce ne sia poca: mi sta benissimo che sia solo un pretesto, con i manoscritti di due fratelli matematici - anzi le note ai margini, i Marginalia - che conterrebbero le soluzioni ai più grandi problemi irrisolti di teoria dei numeri. Non è neppure il susseguirsi di eventi francamente assurdi: figuriamoci se io sono il tipo da preoccuparsi di queste quisquilie. Quello che non sono proprio riuscito a sopportare, e lo si vede dal tempo che ho impiegato per arrivare fino in fondo al libro, è la rappresentazione del protagonista, che lavora come PR ma pare più che altro un Mr Bean. Io avrò chiaramente dei limiti, ma quella è una cosa che non sopporto proprio. Verso il termine del libro in effetti alcuni pezzi del puzzle riescono a mettersi insieme in modo magari rocambolesco ma almeno valido; però non mi viene affatto voglia di prendere i volumi successivi della serie.… (meer)
 
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.mau. | 3 andere besprekingen | Feb 8, 2021 |
fanciful, fanatics, spoof, mathematics, verbal-humor, situational-humor*****

If you geek out on maths you'll be right at home with this hilarious bit of fun. I do wish I'd read the others first, but that didn't stop the laughing. Tom is the not-quite-clueless half of the pair and Dorothy is the certifiable geek. Together they meet people who are more like Bedlamites than anything else. Guaranteed laughs!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Duckworth Books via NetGalley. Thank you!… (meer)
 
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