Day: July 29, 2005
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Book: Codex
Skip Codex by Lev Grossman. It was another silly vacation read maybe a fortnight ago. Young investment banker looks for ancient book, assisted by slightly frantic graduate student, both of them caught up in some odd royal family power struggle. Even for a “beach read,” pretty dismal. I read it, so you don’t have to.…
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Book: Angels and Demons
A couple of weeks ago, while on vacation, I whipped through Angels & Demons, an earlier novel by Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code. This historical/religious/pulp thriller even pulls in the Illuminati. A quick summer read, but you can skip this one. Way back in high school, I think, I read The Illuminatus Trilogy,…