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Hoa Tulilp Đen
by Alexandre Dumas
I've always been in love with tulips and how delicate they are, how about a magnificent Black Tulip?
The events take place in Holland during the tulip-mania era which is the Dutch golden age of the 17th century. A great amount of money is offered as a prize to whoever cultivates a grand black tulip, the thing that nobody had succeeded to achieve before. Here appears the hero.
My first impression of the book was not that great. Reason? I dislike political history, and that's how the first few chapters started off, just not my area of interest, but you definitely will enjoy them if you're into politics and/or history. Don't skip the first 4 chapters though, they're very necessary to base the story of the book on.
WARNING! Beware of some graphic content of barbaric murder and bloody scenes. However, in the 5th chapter, Dumas' charm and Buss' brilliant translation finally started to enchant me, talking less of boring politics, and more of gorgeous tulips.
A piece of advice: Never put down a book if you didn't like it at first, you never know what you'd miss if you didn't give it a second chance. I was fighting off my lost appetite and desire to stop reading against my determination not to judge a book too early, especially when it's a work of my beloved Dumas.
I couldn't put down the book after that. The beautiful romance of Cornelius van Baerle (the hero) and Rosa (the Frisian jailer's daughter) is just too sweet to be described. It's a very good book. I highly recommend it to the gentle hearts; flowers and romance lovers.
The events take place in Holland during the tulip-mania era which is the Dutch golden age of the 17th century. A great amount of money is offered as a prize to whoever cultivates a grand black tulip, the thing that nobody had succeeded to achieve before. Here appears the hero.
My first impression of the book was not that great. Reason? I dislike political history, and that's how the first few chapters started off, just not my area of interest, but you definitely will enjoy them if you're into politics and/or history. Don't skip the first 4 chapters though, they're very necessary to base the story of the book on.
WARNING! Beware of some graphic content of barbaric murder and bloody scenes. However, in the 5th chapter, Dumas' charm and Buss' brilliant translation finally started to enchant me, talking less of boring politics, and more of gorgeous tulips.
A piece of advice: Never put down a book if you didn't like it at first, you never know what you'd miss if you didn't give it a second chance. I was fighting off my lost appetite and desire to stop reading against my determination not to judge a book too early, especially when it's a work of my beloved Dumas.
I couldn't put down the book after that. The beautiful romance of Cornelius van Baerle (the hero) and Rosa (the Frisian jailer's daughter) is just too sweet to be described. It's a very good book. I highly recommend it to the gentle hearts; flowers and romance lovers.