Post by Lady Irie on Feb 25, 2006 8:21:20 GMT -6
. . . by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. It was good. I didn't think great...just good, but that's just me. It think it is because the protagonist is a Princeton student, and the entire storyline is carried out on campus giving a feel of arrogance, and pompous self-righteous arrogance, and I live within proximity of an Ivy League, living in an area peppered with graduates of multiple Ivy League schools, one can only take so much.
The storyline revolves around the HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI, (which looks like it could be an amazing book to read itself), a recently translated book from Renaissance time that has confused scholars for centuries with it's hidden secret messages. This becomes the subject of a senior thesis, and the twists, and turns until some answers are revealed as the final step in completing the paper.
Had this been published before the DaVinci Code, perhaps it would have received similar accolades. I did get to a point where I couldn't put it down, but I get that way with most books, so I'm not sure if it was the book or just me.
Personally, I think I'd like to read the book that Chris & Liz just finished - the setting is more what I am in the mood for, and maybe that was the problem. It's winter in the Northeast. I'd rather get lost in a book right now that puts me on a beach, than locked in a in a moldy, dark, and smelly library on a college campus.
The storyline revolves around the HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI, (which looks like it could be an amazing book to read itself), a recently translated book from Renaissance time that has confused scholars for centuries with it's hidden secret messages. This becomes the subject of a senior thesis, and the twists, and turns until some answers are revealed as the final step in completing the paper.
Had this been published before the DaVinci Code, perhaps it would have received similar accolades. I did get to a point where I couldn't put it down, but I get that way with most books, so I'm not sure if it was the book or just me.
Personally, I think I'd like to read the book that Chris & Liz just finished - the setting is more what I am in the mood for, and maybe that was the problem. It's winter in the Northeast. I'd rather get lost in a book right now that puts me on a beach, than locked in a in a moldy, dark, and smelly library on a college campus.