Well the good news is that I have a designer… the bad news is that I still haven’t quite got Word Press working… I’ll keep at it.

Anyway, I thought I would get to the point of the post. So I’m on a writing course and I should be writing, and clearly I haven’t really been writing (apart from the three really short stories whilst sitting through the dullest. meeting. ever! So I thought I’d write a review of a book I finished reading last week.

Sign of the Cross, by someone who should know better.

Firstly, what kind of planet was this yank on? He starts off with an archaeology professor with the worlds worst English accent (that disappears as fast as Keanu Reeves’ in Dracula for those who care to know), who comes from that great English University, Dover. DOVER?!? seriously? I could understand that he wouldn’t go for Oxford or Cambridge never having been to either (at this time I’m not sure if he’s even been to England) for fear of getting it wrong, but DOVER? He describes it as this wonderful place, and the building so beautiful etc. Seriously. Dover. is. a. shithole.

You wouldn’t mind so much but the author then goes on to say how great his book is, and how it would have been better had he left in all the bits he wanted to etc. Woah there sport! The book is about 300 pages too long. I was drifting off through several sections because you just couldn’t get to the point. I have read some awful books in my time, but yours was simply laughable. Did you decide to jump on the Jesus approach before or after you’d read the Da Vinci code? The ending was a let down. It needed to be explosive. You needed to have something like Raymond Khoudry in the Templar Legacy. You really did promise so much and utterly failed to deliver.

The Roman thing could have been so promising. You could have blown everyone out of the water, but it just felt like a poor quality Da Vinci code ripoff. Instead of the blood of christ, you went for the blood of someone who purported to have killed christ. Was it a bit too much for you to think that Christ wasn’t what the bible says? It was not a page turner, it was a page burner. I could most definitely put it down as I read another book whilst still trying to read that one.

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