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Title	:	The Rule of Four
Author	:	Ian Caldwell
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 450 pages
Published	:	June 28th 2005 by Dell Publishing Company (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller

The Rule of Four

Ian Caldwell

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 450 pages

Rating: 3.23 | 32384 Users | 2241 Reviews

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An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past -- and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets. Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginnning to see the manuscript in a new light--not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more. From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of Princeton, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history--as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.

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Original Title:	The Rule of Four
ISBN:	0440241359 (ISBN13: 9780440241355)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Thomas More, Moses (Bible), Flavius Josephus, Zeus (God), Michelangelo, Saint Jerome, Leda (mythology), Girolamo Savonarola, Leon Battista Alberti, Priapus, Francesco Colonna, Vincent Taft, Richard Curry, Thomas Corelli Sullivan, Bill Stein, Poliphilo, Polia, Patrick Sullivan (Rule of Four), Joseph (Son of Jacob), Paul Harris, Gil (Preston Gilmore Rankin), Procrustes (mythology), Vitruvius, Charlie Freeman, Katie Marchand
Setting:	Princeton, New Jersey(United States) Columbus, Ohio(United States) Austin, Texas(United States) …more Genoa(Italy) Rome(Italy) Florence(Italy) …less

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I am becoming more and more baffled as to what it takes to become a New York Times Bestseller. But basically:If you think books have too much show and not enough tell, if you're looking for a book with pages and pages of inconsequential back story, and most certainly, if you want to see how info dumping can be transformed into a art form, then by all means read this book!I mean, I'm glad two childhood best friends went to college and used their collective degrees to write a book together, but so

The comparisons to The DaVinci Code are inevitable, and the substandard copyediting seems to indicate that The Rule of Four was rushed out in order to capitalize on the Dan Brown furor. That the mistakes weren't fixed for the paperback edition is rather puzzling. The reviews do seem overenthusiastic, though it figures that the New York Times would seize on this more erudite text given the opportunity to steer readers from Dan Brown. Overall, this book was less thriller, more bildungsroman, and I

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Confession: This book was so dreadful that I was moved to create a new readometer especially for it. Another confession, I never finished this book, it is unbelievably dull. Sure I never got to the end, although several reviews suggest that there isn't really an end anyway but as far as I got it seems to be a pseudo intellectual group masturbation about the wonders of going to Princeton. Quoting as many classics as can be crammed into the storyline (there was a storyline wasn't there?). The

I am mystified by the great reviews that this book got...for instance, i believe the nyt said "stunningly erudite," where i think what they meant was "pretentiously psuedointellectual", or, in more common terms, "dull". other people have said that this is similar to the da vinci code, only written well, whereas i would say that it is more of a modern "name of the rose," written by two people who are boring. my only way of understanding the reviews is to think that book reviewers enjoy the

I enjoyed this book immensely. The Rule of Four came out around the same time as when the Da Vinci Code was a big deal, and other authors were jumping on the suspense/ historical fiction bandwagon. This was one of those books on that bandwagon. That being said, this is still a good read. The setting is Princeton. Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are friends that have ties to a 500 year-old Renaissance book they are researching. The research is followed by many surprises, clues, solutions,

This book is incredibly creative; I love how Ian takes the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and creates a compelling story built around history and detective work. If you loved Dan Browns books because you where excited to figure out the clues and solve the mysteries then you will love this book. The story itself included just enough drama to not take away from the underlying teaching of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Im sorry, once I taught myself to say it once I cant stop saying it now). This