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Medaillon
Das Medaillon - bk931; Heyne Verlag; C.C. Bergius; pocket_book; 1975
- GenresFantasy
Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
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C.C. Bergius
30 books5 followersC. C. Bergius spent most of his youth rumbling around in airports, until he became a pilot. He did numerous missions during the last war that made him an expert on Luftwaffe.
It was after the WWII that Bergius started to write and he is the author of five books.
It was after the WWII that Bergius started to write and he is the author of five books.
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January 31, 2020
I'm sorry, but this just isn't good.
I wanted to read this book for two reasons.
1) the author has the same last name as I do. Later I found out that it was nom de plum. He just admired the German Nobel prize winner Friedrich Bergius. :-(
2) The premise of the book was fascinating. A young couple was engaged and to celebrate the event they went shopping for some little memento, and found an ancient, Egyptian scarab pendant. And they felt they had seen it before. And it turned out that they had. Their souls had been living many lives before. First in Egypt the man had given the scarab to his love, but their lives didn't turn out well, they died, and were condemned to try again. In Rome during Nero, in Spain during Spanish inquisition, in France during the revolution... and the scarab is there every time.
It's about rebirth and eternal love and soul lessons or something like that.
It could have been amazing.
It wasn't. :-(
Now... he TRIES to stay true to the history he writes about, but I don't think he manages well. Of course, one cannot say how the Egyptian people would have been, because there aren't many novels from Ancient Egypt saved to this day :-D There's more information about the Romans, even more about 16th century Spain and 18th century France, but I don't think C.C. or Egon-Maria Zimmer, as was the author's real name, had the ability to adjust his writing enough to make his characters live in real events. I didn't get attached to the characters and didn't think their choices and actions and thoughts or even the events were believable. At first I "listened" with lukewarm interest, but it cooled very quickly, and the Spain segment of the story froze it. I had to force myself to wade through the France part. And it didn't even end satisfactorily.
You see, the author had made the male lead skeptical about reincarnation, but Christian, so the female lead could tell him "You can't prove God exists, and I can't prove reincarnation is real, same thing". And the male lead agreed with her. And that's where they dropped it. We won't find out if they manage to live their lives this time according to the "higher expectations" which they failed in previous lives. It doesn't look good. But - I don't like these people. There's only two characters I find in some way interesting, and that was a side character in the Spain story, and then Raimond's character arc was interesting, he seemed to be evolving into a very interesting person.
But - frankly, all I get from this book is that I want to rewrite the story and do it better.
I wanted to read this book for two reasons.
1) the author has the same last name as I do. Later I found out that it was nom de plum. He just admired the German Nobel prize winner Friedrich Bergius. :-(
2) The premise of the book was fascinating. A young couple was engaged and to celebrate the event they went shopping for some little memento, and found an ancient, Egyptian scarab pendant. And they felt they had seen it before. And it turned out that they had. Their souls had been living many lives before. First in Egypt the man had given the scarab to his love, but their lives didn't turn out well, they died, and were condemned to try again. In Rome during Nero, in Spain during Spanish inquisition, in France during the revolution... and the scarab is there every time.
It's about rebirth and eternal love and soul lessons or something like that.
It could have been amazing.
It wasn't. :-(
Now... he TRIES to stay true to the history he writes about, but I don't think he manages well. Of course, one cannot say how the Egyptian people would have been, because there aren't many novels from Ancient Egypt saved to this day :-D There's more information about the Romans, even more about 16th century Spain and 18th century France, but I don't think C.C. or Egon-Maria Zimmer, as was the author's real name, had the ability to adjust his writing enough to make his characters live in real events. I didn't get attached to the characters and didn't think their choices and actions and thoughts or even the events were believable. At first I "listened" with lukewarm interest, but it cooled very quickly, and the Spain segment of the story froze it. I had to force myself to wade through the France part. And it didn't even end satisfactorily.
You see, the author had made the male lead skeptical about reincarnation, but Christian, so the female lead could tell him "You can't prove God exists, and I can't prove reincarnation is real, same thing". And the male lead agreed with her. And that's where they dropped it. We won't find out if they manage to live their lives this time according to the "higher expectations" which they failed in previous lives. It doesn't look good. But - I don't like these people. There's only two characters I find in some way interesting, and that was a side character in the Spain story, and then Raimond's character arc was interesting, he seemed to be evolving into a very interesting person.
But - frankly, all I get from this book is that I want to rewrite the story and do it better.
November 19, 2025
Die Grundidee ist spannend und es war interessant, durch verschiedene historische Epochen zu switchen. Allerdings waren mir die beiden Protagonisten – vor allem durch ihren Egoismus und den ständigen Hang zum Fremdgehen in jedem ihrer Leben – so unsympathisch, dass es mir schwer fiel, das Buch überhaupt zu Ende zu lesen. Zudem waren all die politischen Differenzen und Intrigen rund um Geld, Macht und Religion vielleicht für die ausgewählten Zeitpunkte realistisch, haben die Handlung aber sehr in die Länge gezogen, sodass das Medaillon und seine Träger oft eher Nebensache waren. Geschichtsfans kommen hier sicher auf ihre Kosten, für mich hat das Buch aber leider nicht halten können, was es verspricht.
December 8, 2018
love it
April 28, 2011
I could not finish it. I just couldn't. That part were they betray each other for the first time just... It made me feel depressed for waaaay too long... But the book was so excellent it deserves a full rating.
May 23, 2009
One of my favourite books...
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January 15, 2013I read this book in 1972 in German. I have found a copy as I lost my old one and as I loved this book at that time, I am curious if I will like it again.
January 10, 2015
I have read it very long time ago, back in Czechoslovakia. It is a beautiful story of love, betrayal and destiny. I hope i will find it in its English version and have chance to re-read it.
February 8, 2016
Nie zlé, ale ani nič úžasné. Čakala som iné vyústenie, nie takéto do stratena. Však podobne nenaplnený život a lásku môžu prežívať donekonečna!
August 21, 2016
Sonu bildiğin yarım kalmıştı ya.Keşke böyle bitmese de bir sonuca bağlansaydı.
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January 8, 2017strange history
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