Although the author claims to have tried very hard to remove the writing style of the PHD this formed the thesis for. It didn’t work completely.
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I felt let down by the first half of the book, as a very slow summary of magic and lots of exposition of whys and wherefores. This all felt very […]
Ok, so I spot something wrong here. Had I made this the first Chris Ryan novel I read, I would never read another one. And yet this gets 4.5/5 on Amazon. Yet Strikeback, which I thoroughly enjoyed gets 3/5. who can I trust to decide which Chris Ryan novel to read next?
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Problems I had […]
I had so much trouble trying to reinstall Windows XP on my IBMX23 that I thought I’d see how I get on with PCLinux.
If you like your detectives to have hunched backs and reek of descriptive text with plenty of historical observations, then you should buy this book.
Sadly I don’t.
Yada yada, yawn, secret book, hidden text, ooooh a murder, chase, yawn, murder, skim skim, blah.
Don’t waste your time.
Cash in on the Da Vinci Code you say? Surely not. People have written templar consipracy novels for years prior to the Da Vinci Code. And this one proved fun to read.
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Publishers do seem to enjoy novels about action based antiquarian book dealers though, I don’t know if I approve of that, but it […]
The first Chris Ryan novel I read. And I really liked it. Chris Ryan seems a worthy contender to Barry Sadler. I wonder if the Sadler estate could convince Chris Ryan to contribute to the Casca series.
At least we won’t get any more Casca books from Paul Dengelegi since the Casca writing has […]