...and it's ordered. Thanks you two! Having read
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
and
Foucault's Pendulum
lo these many years ago, I wasn't at all impressed with Mr. Brown.
The fact that most of the negative reviews had really bad grammar and spelling spoke volumes, I think.
I also thought that the MacGuffin used in
Rule of Four
was far more interesting than the one in
The DaVinci Code,
and I found myself wishing that it could be true. I don't think I'd ever seen that particular idea used before.
I will say, although I can intellectually recognize that The Nothing Man is a fairly lame tabloid-y novel, and the least of Jim Thompson's many works, I also hold it dear to my heart for its OTT ranting about serving hot dogs in mayonnaise to a man who's had his dick shot off.
Wouldn't ketchup be worse?
The Absolute Ring of Truth!
Long have we, the brothers of the AAPG, sought it. With this simple band, forged in fiction, we shall bring our message to the entire world!
...for all values of
journalism
that are like writing in your LJ.
I'm sure it's very trustigious.
Exactly. It's truthiness is beyond reproach.
I think Stephen Colbert needs to start his own Truthiness Awards.