This book should have been called "Warped Italian Living in 19th Century Paris Hates the Jews, Jesuits, Freemasons and Women." Don't subject yourself to this waste of time--it's weirdly intriguing and oddly compelling, but it's also disgusting, abhorrent, and confusing and ultimately there's no payoff. I'm not a fan of happy endings, per se, but in the case of The Prague Cemetery, if the protagonist had gotten the fate he deserved there would at least have been a sense of catharsis. As it is, I got to the end and said out loud, "WTF was THAT?"
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