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| Monday, 21 May 2007 |
| Begun: The Secret Supper |
B. bought Javier Sierra's The Secret Supper a couple of weeks ago when he turned up at Charles de Gaulle (the airport, not the man) with nothing to read: it was the only book in English in their bookshop.
With regard to which, it strikes me that CdG's management are missing a big trick here. What percentage of their travellers don't read French? A significant one, I would have thought. Then there's the recognition factor: if you're in a strange country and you see a book *in your language*, you're more likely to buy it even if the subject matter makes your heart sink a bit.
Which let's face it: anything with "Leonardo da Vinci" in its blurb does right now. The first fifty pages of this slightly messy narrative just make me want to shake the author and tell him to get on with it: there's too much dotting about, and a lot of this scene-setting would have been better done as flashback. It's not a great beginning and makes me wonder if it would have got published if it'd been about Donatello - or any of the other Mutant Ninja Turtles really.
Anyway, it's about an inquisitor investigating anonymous letters accusing people of heresy. And B. says it does get better, so I shall persevere. |
| posted @ 16:05 |
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