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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Lupin is basically an anti-Sherlock. Both characters were written around the same time period and often take place in similar upper class settings. But while Sherlock devotes his time and intellect to solving crimes, Lupin devotes his to committing them. However, I can easily see why the Lupin stories have not maintained the same level of pop culture significance as the Sherlock canon. The Sherlock stories have a distinct and notable cast of characters that readers come to care for. This collection did not have that. Most of the characters are one-dimensional side characters, meant to be robbed and cry wolf. The only one I distinctly remember is Lupin’s police nemesis, and even that is only because his character is a genre convention.
The character of Arsène Lupin himself is not much better. He exists more as a mysterious criminal archetype than a full character in his own right. Which would work in a detective narrative, but is harder to care about as a main character.
It’s not a bad collection by any means. The stories are fun and easy to read. And this is only the first nine stories ever published, so perhaps the later stories help to remedy my issues with this particular collection. But I never found myself particularly attached to the character of Lupin in any way.
(Fun fact for readers: I am not the only way to make comparisons between Lupin and Sherlock. Maurice LeBlanc himself wrote an crossover between the greatest detective and greatest thief. However, Doyle never approved of this crossover, so it was edited to Herlock Sholmes instead of Sherlock Holmes. Now that Sherlock is in the public domain, modern reprintings will use the correct name, but older editions may still feature Herlock.)
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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adventurous
challenging
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
I found Les Aventures d' Arsène Lupin rather cool. Leblanc doesn't have, à mon avis, the same eloquence as many other authors I've read. I mean, it was a nice reading, Lupin is a cool character, but there is nothing too special about him?
Maybe I just need to get to know him more. I confess that this book caught my interest as I read further on, although each chapter seems to be a sort of short story. I believe they may be linked to one another, or else I wouldn't be able to explain why Leblanc wrote Le Collier de la Reine, in which there is no Lupin, just a character named Raoul: there must be a connection.
all in all it's a pleasant book.
Maybe I just need to get to know him more. I confess that this book caught my interest as I read further on, although each chapter seems to be a sort of short story. I believe they may be linked to one another, or else I wouldn't be able to explain why Leblanc wrote Le Collier de la Reine, in which there is no Lupin, just a character named Raoul: there must be a connection.
all in all it's a pleasant book.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It took me a long time to get through this book. I would struggle to get into each of the individual stories and would lose interest quickly. When we get to the end of each story, and they explain the reveal how the crime was committed, some felt very farfetched and not logical. The resolve was introducing characters that had nothing to do with the plot originally and had them redeem themselves. It was interesting to see how the crime took place but those few pages could not redeem the entire book itself.