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Post by tigerlily on Apr 21, 2008 10:21:17 GMT
Started reading this over the weekend.
It's perfectly innocuous so far.
The historical parts of the novel (I'm up to page 122) are far superior to the modern-day parts so far. Mosse seems unable to write credible modern dialogue or descriptive passages for some reason, or perhaps it is just that the present seems so mundane in comparison to the events of the past...
The time-switching formula is irritating at times, and I am having to fight the urge to skip the modern-day chapters and get back to the past! Presumably not quite the effect the author intended...
Not a bad read, for all that.
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Post by xraysteve on Apr 21, 2008 17:00:21 GMT
Thanks Tig
I read the first one but was not sure whether I could be bothered with the second. Is it stilll Cathars in the Languedoc?
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Post by tigerlily on Apr 21, 2008 21:53:32 GMT
Not this time - 19th century Paris and the Languedoc.
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Post by Sharon Sharealike on Apr 22, 2008 7:40:26 GMT
If you like/sort of like that (as I found it a bit wishy washy at times) then you may like Timeline by ........, will check and get back in a mo! I did like that - very exciting. Shaz (with bad memory this morning!)
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Post by Sharon Sharealike on Apr 22, 2008 7:41:12 GMT
Michael Critchon.
Der.
;D
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Post by tigerlily on Apr 22, 2008 12:18:45 GMT
I was just about to yell 'Michael Crichton!' at you.
A much better book than it was a movie, incidentally. Although the film isn't too terrible!
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Post by Sharon Sharealike on Apr 22, 2008 19:42:17 GMT
I have a really dodgy version of the fillum so that doesn't help!
Its a bit like trying to cram all the Davinchi Code in to a film - something has to be skipped over or it would last for ever!
;D
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Post by flouncey on Jun 2, 2008 20:08:11 GMT
Just started reading this and so far I think it's better than her last one which I thought kind of lost the plot towards the end, hopefully this one won't do that!
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Post by tigerlily on Jun 4, 2008 15:30:42 GMT
No flouncey, it absolutely does not do that at all! A much stronger ending altogether, thankfully.
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