Saturday, June 16, 2007

Brilliant Creatures

Finished Brilliant Creatures by Clive James. Honestly, don't read this one. It's dated and full of pretensious references that the author gives a reference to at the end of the novel! Unbelievable! A novelist writing his own Cliff notes.

So now I am rereading The Rule of Four. I loved this book when I read it three years ago; it made me wish I had gone to Princeton. A more sophisticated and frankly, more interesting novel than The DaVinci Code. Same sort of puzzle for the intelligentsia, though.

I do enjoy this genre. Rule of Four and Cryptonomicon are the height of this smart puzzle/history novel.

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