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| Original Title: | The Prestige |
| ISBN: | 0312858868 (ISBN13: 9780312858865) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Andrew Westley, Kate Angier, Rupert Angier, Alfred Borden, Arthur Koenig, Nikola Tesla |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1996), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1995), World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1996) |
Christopher Priest
Paperback | Pages: 404 pages Rating: 3.89 | 16900 Users | 1828 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Prestige |
| Author | : | Christopher Priest |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 404 pages |
| Published | : | September 15th 1997 by Tom Doherty Associates Tor Books (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery |
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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.
Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.
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Ratings: 3.89 From 16900 Users | 1828 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books The Prestige
page 290: "It is difficult to deal with massy, inorganic compounds. Living tissue is not of the same order of problem."page 291: "...it would be a simple matter with life organisms. The structure is so much simpler than that of the elements."...WHAT.I threw the book (at a couch, and when it bounced and landed open I rescued it immediately). What the hell. And at the same time blithely saying that "energy and matter are but two manifestations of the same force" in 1900 (mass-energy equivalence"My error, at first, was to assume that the sheer brilliance of the effect would be enough to dazzle my audiences. What I was neglecting was one of the oldest axioms of magic, that the miracle of the trick must be made clear by the presentation. Audiences are not easily misled, so the magician must provoke their interest, hold it, then confound every expectation by performing the apparently impossible." - Christopher Priest, The PrestigeThe Prestige - Christopher Priests highly inventive,
I wish I could award half stars, for this book truly would be 3.5 stars--better that I liked it but less than I really liked it. I was engaged while I was reading, but every time I set it down, I had a struggle to pick it back up again. Totally on me, its not the book.If you enjoyed Robertson Davies Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders), you will probably enjoy this book too. Unlike Davies, the ending felt rather Frankenstein-like to me. And I have to wonder if Erin
Not recommended for: anyone allergic to SF-elements or who demands a simple story told from beginning to end, or who can't cope with old-fashioned prose or a slow pace.This book is quite simply a masterwork. From a slow beginning, it ratchets up the tension like an old-fashioned horror film, until it's truly thrilling. With relatively little in the way of overt psychological insight - particularly into Borden, one of the two main characters - it nonetheless constructs clear, sympathetic,
Having loved the film (but also been somewhat bewildered by it - never watch intricate films when you should be sleeping - they really won't make sense.) I was pretty excited to find that it was originally a book. This, I figured, would be my chance to actually understand the story!Well, sort of.The book is written in epistolary form, from the point of view of four main characters around 5 generations apart. Two characters write in diaries - these are the main characters, and the storyline that
Rupert Angier and Alfred Borden are the dueling magicians playing a rather nasty game of one-upmanship. Borden creates a 'transporting man' trick, which sees him disappear and reappear at opposite ends of the stage and Angier becomes obsessed with discovering his method. They also do their very best to sabotage each others performances.Even though i've seen the film and knew the outcome it still kept me intrigued. The first part concentrates on Borden and his version of events surrounding Angier
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