I've never encountered a bit of meta-fiction like this before. I have no clue what happened at the end and this is either a great accomplishment or tragic short coming. I'm not sure if this is an admirable feat or not, but considering the novel's tension and over all level of reader anxiety due to plot events when you add in whatever your own imagination brings to the table I can near guarantee The Club Dumas is impossible to walk away from. The connection between the two text is little more than what the reader makes them out to be. If you, like the author or Terry Weyna, have read seemingly everything under the sun since the destruction of the library at Alexandria then I both pity and envy the ride you'd get from this novel. I quoted the passage in the beginning for a reason: whatever you bring to the table in reading The Club Dumas will probably have a great affect of what you make of it. Whether or not the resolution is satisfactory is moot and will probably vary from reader to reader. There is a mystery in trying to establish a connection between the two text in Corso's possession and by the end all things are explained.
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