Lizzie - Classic Book Club

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Hello! I am Lizzie, and my main joy in life is reading books and thinking about books! I have so many thoughts about each book I read so wanted a place to record these thoughts, and a place where others who are reading the same book as me can share their thoughts about it too. I’ve tried to write my (often lengthy!) reviews of books so it feels like I am chatting with you as we read the book together, comparing thoughts at the end of a chapter and ideas of where the plot and characters may end up, wondering why the author has written a character or scene in a particular way and what they may be subtly trying to tell us about that character or scene. So enjoy reading along with me, and please get in touch, I’d love to be able to discover more about a favourite book from your thoughts on it.

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Arsene Lupin Gentleman-Thief by Maurice LeBlanc

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Maurice LeBlanc
Arsene Lupin Gentleman-Thief

I’d not heard of this character before but was made aware of him from the Netflix series and then learnt that this was adapted from a series of books, and the books themselves were then strongly recommended to me by a friend. I actually picked this book up along with a Raffles book, as they sound intriguingly similar, both being about gentlemen thieves, and it will be interesting to see if there are similarities between the books and to judge which I prefer, and it may also be an interesting comparison with Lupin being written by a French author and Raffles being written by an English author. I was wondering which one came first and which therefore possibly influenced the other, and it seems that Raffles was written first. I have chosen to read Lupin first though, ahead of Raffles, as he was so highly recommended to me. I’m not usually a fan of short stories, but hopefully I will enjoy these. Grab your copy and let’s read it together! Read the full review

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