This is like an old pulp mystery set in the Orient, but modernized. It doesn't, though, talk down to its readers. Not with a vocabulary in which a main character describes herself as a pedant and obscurantist, or which uses words like punctilious without seeming ostentatious.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The Wheel of Darkness, by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
This is like an old pulp mystery set in the Orient, but modernized. It doesn't, though, talk down to its readers. Not with a vocabulary in which a main character describes herself as a pedant and obscurantist, or which uses words like punctilious without seeming ostentatious.
