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haunting novel about a brilliant young man who enrolls at a small New England college and becomes entangled in a mysterious death and the ultimate scientific quest.
Eric Dunne is a sixteenyearold academic phenom, Desperate to escape his foster family, Eric graduates early from high school and earns a scholarship to Aberdeen College, a small, prestigious school in northern Connecticut.
Aberdeen is a school for the privileged youth of America's elite, an isolated world where hard drinking and hard studying go hand in hand.
When Eric is assigned a workstudy job with the college's head librarian, Cornelius Graves, Eric begins to hear strange and disconcerting rumors about his new mentor.
Despite himself, he is curiously drawn to Cornelius, if only to divine whether it's true that he's searching for the Philosopher's Stone, a mythical substance that supposedly holds the secret to eternal life.


At the same time, Eric's preternatural aptitude for Latin quickly attracts the attention of Arthur Fitch, a charismatic and aloof senior who invites him to become a research assistant for Dr.
William Cade, Aberdeen's most celebrated professor, Eric is accepted into Cade's small circle of sophisticated students, all of whom live off campus on Cade's country estate, and soon discovers that his new friends are not just conducting research for Dr.
Cade they, too, are searching for the Philosopher's Stone, When an alchemical experiment goes fatally wrong, Eric is drawn deeper into the dark secrets surrounding the legendary substance, As the police investigation narrows and Eric gets swept up in Professor Cade's obsession, the tensions on the estate and in Eric's new friendships threaten toexplode and, with them, Eric's idealized world.


Like "The Secret History" and "A Separate Peace, Gods of Aberdeen" demonstrates the selfishness and savagery that can lie at the heart of the most rarefied academic setting.
El Último Alquimista es un libro que mezcla el género juvenil, tratado de forma adulta, con la novela de misterio de una forma, a mi parecer, fascinante.


Eric, es un chico deaños, cuyo talento es advertido nada más llegar a Aberdeen , por lo que enseguida se le propone participar en el proyecto del doctor Cade, que opta al premio Paddleton.

Uno de los miembros del equipo, Dan, le propone mudarse a la casa en la que todos los participantes del equipo viven, y Eric, una vez allí, se da cuenta de que además del proyecto de Cade, algo extraño ocurre en esa casa oscuros experimentos relacionados con la alquimia y la piedra filosofal que tienen obsesionados a los jóvenes habitantes de esa casa.


Entre traducciones de obras en latín, y sucesos algo oscuros, también se nos muestra la vida de un adolescente de dieciséis años, con todo lo que eso conlleva: primeros amores y experiencias sexuales, coqueteo con las drogas y alcohol.

A pesar de esto, Eric no es un cabeza hueca las reflexiones que hacen son de una persona bastante maduras para su edad y en ocasiones , su cinismo resulta divertido.

Pero todo lo divertido, puede volverse peligroso de repente si uno se obsesiona demasiado, . .

En un papel secundario tenemos al bibliotecario excéntrico del Campus, Cornelius, de quien se dice que tiene más de cien años y que realiza extraños rituales con palomas.

Cornelius no está tan presente en la trama como la sinopsis del libro parece decirnos, pero aparece en algunos momentos cruciales, dándole a la obra este toque misterioso y oscuro que tiene.


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I picked this up at a library's friends book store, mostly intrigued if it was set in Aberdeen, Scotland.
It is not.
Anyway, I'm a sucker for any coming of age book and/or books set in small college towns, Needless to say, I finished it in one sitting,
If you need a book for ahour plane ride, this is for you,
Or maybe a few rides on the subway
I don't know, I really liked it. the author seems competant enough when it comes to writing, it's just such a shame that the story itself feels like such a milque toast version of donna tarte's 'a secret history'.
so much so that i couldn't even get more thanpages in before giving up out of boredom, i like to give the benefit of the doubt however and chalk this up to perhaps the author having this idea previous to THS or simply his ignorance of TSH.
. . still, very unfortunate. Non c'entra niente Devo dire che il libro mi è piaciuto abbastanza anche se non c'entra nulla con il titolo e la recensione del risvolto di copertina, infatti è un testo sul disagio giovanile di un ragazzo che si trova ammesso in un'importante università e soprattutto in un gruppo di studenti eccezionali di cui subisce il fascino malsano e non ha ancora il carattere e la maturità per accettare il suo posto nel mondo e soprattutto prendersi delle responsabilità.
Incidentalmente parla anche di alchimia, ma solo come mezzo per creare una situazione particolare poteva essere secondo me sostituita da qualsiasi altra ossessione, il vantaggio è che permette di usare i veleni.
La colpa è a mio avviso da una parte di chi ha tradotto il titolo in lingua originale è "Gods of Aberdeen", gli dei di Aberdeen, che secondo me rispecchiava meglio il delirio di onnipotenza di alcuni protagonisti, come il professore e, ancora di più, Art, ma soprattutto di chi ha scritto lo pseudo riassunto.
Non so se è stata una svista o si tratta di un'operazione voluta per aumentare le vendite, perché sicuramente i misteri, l'alchimia e così via attirano un pubblico più vasto che una semplice storia di un ragazzo alle prese con il primo vero amore.
Secondo me il libro è scritto piuttosto bene, ci sono delle belle descrizioni di atmosfera, anzi c'è un'ossessione per il clima freddo e gli ambienti.
I personaggi mi sembrano ben azzeccati, rispecchiano bene una certa società delle

Università di elite americane, forse sono un po' stereotipati in questo, se si vuole.
Una nota di merito al protagonista che nella sua indolenza, mancanza di spirito di iniziativa e spina dorsale, nonché vigliaccheria, ti fa venire voglia di entrare nel libro e prenderlo a schiaffi per vedere se almeno reagisce.
Anche il professor Cade è una figura veramente abietta, pronta a qualsiasi compromesso pur di mantenere la sua algida distanza e soprattutto a concludere il suo lavoro.
Forse la conclusione meritava qualche pagina di più, ma insomma, c'è di peggio,

This book is a lesser version of The Secret History, I could not believe how similar they were in all plot points, It was uncanny, almost like a first draft, . Left with a particular feeling of loss, “Such places never give back what they take, ” An very bright young orphan works his way into Aberdeèn college with his talent for languages, Typical coming of age type story thrown in with mysteries and murder, Interesting characters, fellow students and the surrounding adults, OK story. L'ultimo alchimista Is so much like The Secret History and Special Topics in Calamity Physics that I was mentally shouting, "No, no, no," to the narrator from the beginning.
He's a brilliant orphan attending an elite college on scholarship, He's taken up by rich smart peers working on a special project who also have a secret hobby of alchemy, involving mysterious texts and hallucinogens and forest purification rites and there's a lot of sexual tension and a death.
. . you get the picture. Some of us have a warped idea of ivycovered private colleges in the Northeast, At least, I hope my idea of spoiled rich kids driving cars that cost more than myK and spending more time partying than researching is distorted.
But the perspective in Gods of Aberdeen matches my preconceived notions, Even worse, the novel manages to take an underage innercity orphan who has excelled due to both natural acumen and work ethic and turn him into a drunken, drugingesting, sexually promiscuous party guy without getting so far behind in his studies that he doesnt earn a major academic coup and manages to push forward in terms of the mysterious “mcguffin” around which the books plot is structured.


Gods of Aberdeen begins with the premise that you cannot go home again, The narrator tells us, “places never give back what they take, ” More colorfully, “Nostalgia becomes a dark lens, the promise of immortality sheds its skin, and you find yourself gliding unseen, under the shadows of the giants of your life, who have grown too tired to take notice.
” Both quotations on p.From that observation, the narrator/protagonist/Eric Dunne takes us through the flashback that leads us lugubriously through his story.


Positioned by the publisher to be something of a Dan Brownstyle thriller, the only similarity to The DaVinci Code and Angels amp Demons would be the regular use of quotations in foreign and/or “dead” languages.
Some of these quotations are quite accurate some are so colloquial that they go further from the literal than I would like.
I get it, we wouldnt say, “Overly great homeliness engenders disparaging” Over grete homlynesse engendreth dispreisynge when we can say, “Familiarity breeds contempt.
” p.Yet, I prefer, “Sometimes, good Homer sleeps” Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus to “Even good Homer nods, ” p.or “The name is changed but you relate the story” Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur to simply “With the name changed the story applies to you.
” p.

My favorite quotation in the book, though, was not presented in the original language, but I enjoyed it anyway.
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, ” Camus, quoted on p.Even so, I found myself disappointed in the working out of the plot, This tale of obsession mixed with intrigue and sprinkled with indifference on behalf of certain supporting characters simply didnt resonate with verisimilitude to me.

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