Don't worry, Fats. Patently untrue. He can't have died more than 5 years ago....I think. Where did those other twenty years go.
Just heard that I've won a ballot to go to London with a group as the guest of our MP to visit the Houses of Parliament. One of those places on my bucket list....really looking forward to it.
Let me know when you are going and I'll switch the Parliament channel on so I can listen to you heckling from the gallery. It's something I wouldn't mind doing one day. Do you have to find your own way there or do they arrange it for you?
It's a coach trip from the Island, then a tour of the House and free time in London. Planning to visit the John Soane Museum and the Temple Church nearby. Only had to pay £10 to a charity for my place.
Read one book....won't make that mistake again. Am very interested in history and the Templars are fascinating....their downfall was lending money to powerful men who didn't want to pay it back. Sounds familiar. Have been to the Temple Church before..it is in an attractive part of London near the Inns of Court. The John Soane Museum (incidentally free ) is in Lincoln's Inn and is stuffed full of art and architectural artefacts. All I need is good weather.
I liked them and I have liked all the books he's written. It's not always about how good the writing is, but how you can engage with the character or the story and if you can let your imagination run with it. Not every book needs to be a literary masterpiece to be enjoyable. I still haven't seen Inferno yet which is beginning to annoy me. I really enjoyed the books and the stories.
Must confess that I struggle with his writing style. Interesting ideas and the boy's done pretty good out of them, but he's not an author who excites me with his stories. I respect that he's very popular though (but so are/were Harold Robbins, Jacqueline Susann, E L James, Stephenie Meyer ....) but there's no accounting for taste. If we all liked the same stuff, life would be very boring - and we wouldn't disagree over football matches or refereeing decisions, would we?
Sorry, should have said in my opinion I really didn't enjoy Da Vinci's Code, his writing style irritated me so I just didn't get into the story and the characters irritated me even more. I'm quite surprised that I finished the book, to be honest. I'm not a literary snob, it's not that I read the classics but I just can't get into Dan Brown, James Patterson emoticon-0119-puke to name just two. I do enjoy reading other people's recommendations, though...
No, neither is Patterson. I just don't understand how Patterson in particular churns out so many books in a year (8 in 2015), give me someone like Robert Harris with his well-researched 1 book a year
Have you read The Lost Symbol FLT? I enjoyed that book and think that if made correctly, it would make a good film script.
I suspect that to turn out that many books, you probably do the plotting and some editing, but minions do the donkey work. That was how some artists used to work....they did the fancy bits, but background would be done by others so they had several on the go at once.
I do think some authors write their books with an eye on the screenplay. Michael Crichton was that type of author. I've read a couple of his novels. Totally forgettable. Err, that's not quite right. Sadly, I can remember reading them, but the material was so mediocre I'd like to forget it.
Yes, it should be. I very much doubt it, as the influential 'hate' newspapers have been heading off towards that political direction themselves.
