Patrick Tilley’s Mission

 
I mentioned in my previous post that I was asked to contribute to FNQ magazine by a friend of mine. The following is the second article, a book review of, arguably, one of my favourite works of contemporary fiction.  As always, I’d appreciate your thoughts on the article and, more importantly, I hope that it [...]

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An Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire

 

 
I am currently reading Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire’. This being the first time I am reading her work (I haven’t still read God of Small Things. Sue me), I am struck by her incredible ability to simplify the most emotive of issues. Her arguments are compelling and her writing [...]

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The Da Vinci Code

And the first review of Dan Brown's bestseller movie adaptation is out. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone has reviewed it. Bear in mind that this man actually liked the novel. The review:  
There's no code to decipher. Da Vinci is a dud — a dreary, droning, dull-witted adaptation of Dan Brown's religioso detective story that [...]

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