The Relic Master : A Novel (Paperback)

from lauriebrown54

When I picked up this book at the library, I somehow missed that it was a comedy. From the description on the cover, it sounds like an adventurous historical fiction. Fake shroud of Turin? Relic dealer? Albrecht Durer? Sounds good to me! A quest? Great! Dismas, a relic dealer (a person who deals ...

from mamzel

The subject of this book reminded me of Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Churches used relics of saints to draw patrons and their money to their door. Dismas hunts these bones and other detritus for two wealthy men, Fredrick the Wise and (almost) Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. Dismas concocts a plan to cre...

from bohemima

Dismas, a medieval relic hunter, becomes embroiled in a complicated plot to steal what later becomes the Shroud of Turin. His friend Albrecht Durer reluctantly agrees to help him. The plot is implausible, but Buckley makes the book fly through a good writing and a truly wicked sense of humor. Al...

from justagirlwithabook

Picked this up from Politics & Prose in DC and never would've known it existed otherwise. Described as a mix between Monty Python and I'm not sure what ... but I really enjoyed it! It reminded me somewhat of a very toned down Christopher Moore (some 'making fun' of religion, though not outright b...

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) So first, a shameful confession, that I haven't read anything by the brilliant writer Christopher Buckl...