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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: As in the previous book, this novel placed high in Kodansha's Bunko Translation Mystery Best 10 in Japan, only falling to second place where ''The Shadow of the Wind'' had reached the first.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a commentary on all religions in the world.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism Abrahamic religions pass as a commentary on all religions in the world.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a commentary on all religions in the world.
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* HilariousInHindsight: This novel, whose protagonist is hired to create a religion, was translated into English by Lucia Graves, the daughter of famous comparative religion scholar Robert Graves, who has even been accused precisely of making things up too much in some of his main works.
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* HilariousInHindsight: This novel, whose protagonist is hired to create a religion, was translated into English by Lucia Graves, the daughter of famous comparative religion scholar Robert Graves, who has even been was accused precisely of making things up too much in some of his main works.works.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a commentary on all religions in the world.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a commentary on all religions in the world.
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* EvenBetterSequel: Universally considered as superior to ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'', either as this or as a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel for those who didn't entirely like it. There are people that even consider it Zafón's finest adult novel, period.
* EvenBetterSequel: Universally considered as superior to ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'', either as this or as a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel for those who didn't entirely like it. There are people that even consider it Zafón's finest adult novel, period.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a criticism of commentary on all religions in the world.
* EvenBetterSequel: Universally consideredas superior to ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'', either as this or as a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel for those who didn't entirely like it. There are people that even consider it Zafón's finest adult novel, period.
* EvenBetterSequel: Universally considered
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* CriticalResearchFailure: A novel about a tormented writer trying to invent a new religion would have been a great opportunity to explore comparative mythology, among other things, but it' easy to feel Zafón declined to review such things and only opted to make a flowery criticism of Catholicism pass as a criticism of all religions in the world.
* EvenBetterSequel: Universally considered as superior to ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'', either as this or as a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel for those who didn't entirely like it. There are people that even consider it Zafón's finest adult novel, period.
* HilariousInHindsight: This novel, whose protagonist is hired to create a religion, was translated into English by Lucia Graves, the daughter of famous comparative religion scholar Robert Graves, who has even been accused precisely of making things up too much in some of his main works.
* EvenBetterSequel: Universally considered as superior to ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind'', either as this or as a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel for those who didn't entirely like it. There are people that even consider it Zafón's finest adult novel, period.
* HilariousInHindsight: This novel, whose protagonist is hired to create a religion, was translated into English by Lucia Graves, the daughter of famous comparative religion scholar Robert Graves, who has even been accused precisely of making things up too much in some of his main works.
