i just watched the ninth gate with johnny depp, and i was just wandering if "the nine gates to the kingdom of shadows" was a real book.
Jonny Depp's worst movie, right there. And I doubt that book exists, lots of movies like that make up their books. Like in Dead Poet's Society, the book of poems they have isn't real
That movie is based on a book called "The Dumas Club" by Reverte and totally misses the point of the book altogether so I doubt there is a real book of the ninth gate.but do check out the dumas club, an excellent read
i'll second the recommendation of the the club dumas - great read, lots of insights on the world of rare book collecting (if i had the money!). i wish my spanish was better though - if i remember correctly it was written in spanish and felt like a translation at times. and no, the ninth gate is completely ficticious. so is the delomelanicon that it claims to be based on.
