One's principles abandoned and lying in bits
A few days ago, I did something I swore never to do. I bought this book, which was sitting on a stall in the Leather Lane street market in London, shouting out my name every time I walked past:
Er, bears more than a passing resemblance to this book, doesn’t it:
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This kind of cashing-in-on-Dan-Brown stuff usually annoys me intensely. But this is packed full of what looks, in a glance down the contents page, like jolly interesting stuff. There are some articles with a distinctly knocking tone, but not too many I hope, or it may find itself Bookcrossed. I really, really enjoyed the original book, could not put it down while reading it and, like a lot of other people, thought it was actually a better story than its commensurately more famous sibling. I know what I think and I’m not really interested in being told why I shouldn’t have enjoyed it in the first place because it’s all a load of crap in reality.
So, will that happen? I’ll report back when I’ve read some of it on how good or otherwise it actually is.