4/10/2007

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Really excellent Iain Pears that I read maybe 7-10 years ago. I picked up a used copy a little while ago and was all set to dive in again, and had gotten about 50 pages in, when J finished up the O'Brian series. He was bereft, and wouldn't be satisfied with Mystic River which, while a very decent thriller, is nothing more.

So I gave up Instance and moved on to Thunderstruck, Erik Larson's story of Marconi and Crippen, and how their worlds intersected on Crippen's transatlantic flight from justice. Really really great.

But then J kept making reference to his book, and since I did read it probably a decade ago, I have no memory of who did what or why. So I got my own copy yesterday and will read along, so we can discuss.

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