The November Big Read

[Mimpty]

[Poppy]

[bearcub]

Mimpty, it's called 'Trace'. Think it only came out 4-6 weeks ago. So far, it's been as gripping as they usually are - although AGAIN Sandra read it first so I have to wait my turn

[Mimpty]

[MrSpoon]

[Guest]

The same people who turned up at Meg Mortimer's 'wedding' perhaps? (Sorry, most of my cultural reference points are from the 1970s )

[bellybabe]

OK, I never read the book (and having read the comments on this thread am probably not going to), and I can see how irritating it all must be for that tour guide in the article, but I do take issue with the article's comments on Opus Dei. They are indeed rich and powerful and in my book they are definitely a sect. A scary one at that.

[Jay]

I actually managed to read this eventually .............................

My comments:- more of the same - writing 'by numbers', lots of really annoying inaccuracies about word derivation, history, French life, British life, Scottish life - and don't get me started on the implausibility that a.) Mary Magdalene kept a diary and b.) it could survive for 2000 years!

- but it does have the 'how will it all end' factor, so I kept reading to the end

- ah well, it whiled away a train journey .......

[mr magnolia]

[Jay]

I thonk Tony Robinson is doing a programme on C4 on 'The Da Vinci Code - Fact or Fantasy?' - that should be a hoot - Tony used to be quite interesting until he did one about the right of succession to the crown which was so, so inaccurate that I could hardly keep myself from hurling the tv out of the window! I had pity on the people in the street below, however, and contented myself with hurling abuse at Tony

[bellybabe]