I'm not supposed to talk about books until Sunday

[akujunkan]

But I just finish reading The Historian, and I am here to tell all of you to read it. NOW. It's wonderful, and it feels like even more of a find because I would never have bothered picking it up if I hadn't asked a friend about it during an interminably long wait in Nha Trang station in Vietnam.

Apparently, it's been called a Da Vinci Code knockoff, which strikes me as ironic because The Historian has tremendous merit whereas the former book should only be used as a primer on how to commit the literary equivalent of domestic violence upon the English language in particular and good storytelling in general.

Anyway. Historian is a fabulous, fabulous book, and I am gushing about it now so that I can stop jumping up and down and go to sleep, and so that I can get the squee out of my head and write something intelligent about it on Sunday.

That will be all.

Comments

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Agreeable opinion on the Da Vinci Code.

I've been curious about The Historian and heard both good & bad things about it. I'll have to browse through it in the bookstore. My pile of books on my nightstand is getting a little low; time to stock-up.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

It's by no means a perfect book, but here's the thing: it's so good that I didn't mind the less-than-perfect parts, even though I was conscious of them while I was reading--and that's the sort of thing that usually drives me batty. So I definitely recommend checking it out, and I'd be interested in knowing what you think about it.