Doug Pensinger wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
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Oh, that twist! As I recall, that was 100 pages from the end. (Yes, a fair-sized book.) I thought you meant the ironic "big pile of historical documents was actually there all along" thing.
Buy into? By then, that wasn't really an issue for me. The twist felt as plausible as the rest of it. The Grail expert has unfortunately been driven mad by his obsession, just as happened to some of Arthur's best knights. As for religious figures being duped, many people would find that quite plausible. : )
Mark Twain, in his essay on the literary offenses of James Fenimore Cooper wrote "(the rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction) require that when a personage talks like an illustrated, gilt-edged, tree-calf, hand-tooled, seven- dollar Friendship's Offering in the beginning of a paragraph, he shall not talk like a negro minstrel in the end of it.
That's kind of the objection I had. The Cardinal and his sidekick were portrayed as diabolical criminals in the beginning of the book and poor used up victims at the end.
In any case, the book wasn't _terrible_, in fact there were parts I enjoyed quite a bit. As I mentioned before I bought another of the authorâs books while I was reading it. I just think it didn't live up to the hype.
ÂHighly recommended see [http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html] -- Doug
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