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Post by tigerlily on Dec 9, 2007 17:21:39 GMT
Just about half way through this now. Resisted buying it for ages because it was so popular and had that whole Grail thing going on that was just done to death with the hoo-ha over the Da Vinci code.
It's pretty fine stuff - so much better-written than Dan Brown, whose prose I find workmanlike at best.
Anyway, don't let the Richard & Judy book club award put you off - it really is a good read. And although touted as a romance as well as a thriller/mystery sort of book, there's not much in the way of fluffy stuff or Chick Lit (yeuchy phrase) to it at all. It's bearable, put it that way.
I especially love that it switches between 13th century France and 2005.
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Post by flouncey on Dec 9, 2007 21:26:51 GMT
I thought it was terrible to be honest, but each to their own I guess.
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Post by xraysteve on Dec 10, 2007 19:10:59 GMT
Up to half way I liked it a lot. I read it in Fanjeaux, one of the places mentioned in the book and about 15 miles from carcassone.
After the half way point I found it rushed and unsatisfying which I found frustrating after the beginning. It could have done with another 100 pages to finish it properly in my opinion but I would love to know what you think when you have finished.
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Post by tigerlily on Dec 11, 2007 16:38:48 GMT
Well, it did have quite an unsatisfying finish in some respects. I suppose we are meant to presume that Will is the modern-day version of Guilhem (Guillaume being the modern-day French for William). There was far too little made of Alice and Will's relationship - that part didn't ring true. And the l'Oradore family were somewhat rubbish, really. Why did they have a labyrinth chamber in their basement? Presumably she was the High Priestess, but of which set - los Seres or Veritable?
Great ideas, but not as well thought out and realised as they could have been.
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Post by EmmaNemms on Jan 5, 2008 23:05:18 GMT
I bought Rev her latest book 'Sepulchre' for Christmas - he hasn't spoken in 3 days!
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 7, 2008 12:27:53 GMT
That may well be a recommendation, then!
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Post by shemlock on Jan 8, 2008 10:12:56 GMT
I thought that I recognised the title, then I saw it on my daughter's bookshelf. she is always recommending her books to me, but we do not always have the same taste in reading. On seeing it again, I have started it, and so far I am enjoying it.
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