I can see what’s going to happen here. It’s going to be another Da Vinci Code. Firstly can I say I read the Da Vinci Code in first edition hardback. I thought it was a great book, but it wasn’t until it came out in paperback that people started saying what a cult book it was. Now I think it’s kinda passe and detracts from a very good book, I don’t believe in the bible so I thought it was great, but as far as I’m concerned it really is just like the bible, a great work of fiction. NB any religious nuts taking offence to this, don’t bother posting some crap in my comments section, piss off now. I don’t care what you think, it’s my right to have this opinion, go create your own blog and talk about how much of a hethan I am there.

Ok back to the traveller. I finished reading it this week, I bought it before I saw lots of reviews about it, or the underground station plastered with adverts for it. I thought it looked interesting. Finally picked it up and well I couldn’t put it down. I don’t know why. I love the idea, I loved the theory behind it, but damn it, it really wasn’t *that* good. The prose was great, right up until the main protagonist left the UK to go to America, after that it got watery, the detail was gone the raw grittiness and the description just lost it’s basis.

You’ll sit there and wonder all the way through what makes each side so special, is one wrong or is it right? Who really are the bad guys in all of this? As far as I can tell there are only one set of people with special powers, the travellers themselves. What do the Tabular do that makes them so frightening? In essence, what is the big deal?

As I said, I really did enjoy the book, and it’s haunted me since I put it down, a search of Waterstones didn’t yeald anything like it. It’ll have the same grip as the Matrix did on screen, only I hope that it doesn’t have the same affect that the Matrix did, i.e. after the first film, it was so over hyped they got worse rather than better.

I read in the Observer this morning that the author is a mystery, his publishers have not met him, he’s to become a legindary recluse. Does this mean we now have someone other than Belle Du Jour to while away our time wondering about? OK I’m taking it a bit far, but you get my meaning. Perhaps the author’s reclusiveness will detract from his writing, making people rave about a book that’s pretty good at best, possibly to become over rated at worst.

Such is life. I’ve got some new books to read now… I’ll probably read in the next week:
Karin Slaughter – Faithless
Dean Koontz – Velocity
Jack Kerley – The Death Collectors.

I may also get bored at some point today and sort out the leaning tower of books into author order…

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