Da Vinci Code, Last Juror and Treasure
While I was recouping from my illness I read the Da Vinci Code and Last Juror, second one by John Grisham. I had ordered it from Bangalore it had arrived when I was in hospital. So read both books after coming back home. Da Vinci Code I read only because I kept seeing that name here at LJ, and Last Juror I read because Grisham is one of my favorite authors.
DVC was really nice, but for one twist in the story that could have been better handled I liked it. Took two days to read it. The Last Juror like any Grisham was set in the Southern US, and about law and lawyers, but for a change about a newspaper. That one was good reading too. Took two days for that too.
Then I found a Clive Cussler book Treasure in my library room upstrairs. Usually I have read all the novels that are in my bookshelf. This one seemed that I had not read it. So started reading it, and but for chapters 12 and 14, I don't remember reading the rest of the book. Which meant I had read it and forgotten all of the book. And mind you this one is replete with hot car chases, hijackings, kidnappings, killings, and rescues. All stuff that I love;-)
Anyway I didn't complain, it was like reading a new book:-) And very strangely the book is about the lost library of Alexandria. A Roman emperor who had just converted to Christianity had ordered all the books and treasures in the library destroyed. And there is a fable that some of the items are hidden somewere never to be found. This book is about a chap who took most of the treasure and hid it somewere. There are riddles just like in the Da Vinci Code but not those cryptic stuff, rather much like geographic and historical in nature.<
DVC was really nice, but for one twist in the story that could have been better handled I liked it. Took two days to read it. The Last Juror like any Grisham was set in the Southern US, and about law and lawyers, but for a change about a newspaper. That one was good reading too. Took two days for that too.
Then I found a Clive Cussler book Treasure in my library room upstrairs. Usually I have read all the novels that are in my bookshelf. This one seemed that I had not read it. So started reading it, and but for chapters 12 and 14, I don't remember reading the rest of the book. Which meant I had read it and forgotten all of the book. And mind you this one is replete with hot car chases, hijackings, kidnappings, killings, and rescues. All stuff that I love;-)
Anyway I didn't complain, it was like reading a new book:-) And very strangely the book is about the lost library of Alexandria. A Roman emperor who had just converted to Christianity had ordered all the books and treasures in the library destroyed. And there is a fable that some of the items are hidden somewere never to be found. This book is about a chap who took most of the treasure and hid it somewere. There are riddles just like in the Da Vinci Code but not those cryptic stuff, rather much like geographic and historical in nature.<