> Forsyth has all these painstaking steps on everything from faking a > passport to making a nuke. The Fourth Protocol has all that as well as a > complete org chart of MI5, MI6, the KGB etc etc. Not bad, for all that.
I remember being very sad. It was the first book I let go without finishing fully, and I gave choice gaalis to Forsyth for making that lengthy manual-like detailing. > > If you want unreadable by those standards, there's always good old James A > Michener, whose stories all start off with prehistory (dinosaurs if not > stone age men) and end somewhere in the 50s. Trouble is, I like history. I don't mind history. For instance, there's Vidal. Interesting stuff he has, but the story has to dominate and the history can provide hte backdrop. Not vice versa. > I wont touch ayn rand. Why? I was fida over her a long time ago. Now, I like her as a novelist, but don't subscribe to her ideas.
