"If something isn't aesthetically pleasing or interesting, doesn't require skills I do not have, and makes a stupid point stupidly, I don't appreciate it as art. That doesn't make me a philistine. It makes me a non-rube."

--Jonah Goldberg

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The One with Book of the Dead

82. Title & Author: Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (511 pages)*
Genre: Fiction--Crime & Mystery
Completed: 15 March 2009

Summary & Review: 
Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Rome to investigate the shocking death of a young American tennis star. After Kay returns home to South Carolina perplexed by the odd symbolism of the murder, the killer strikes again and again, but now in Kay's hometown. With the help of her usual crew, she tries to understand the underlying motivation of the murders to track down the killer.

There have been several books that I have read in the past that I liked so much that I wished there were a couple hundred more pages to the book. I would race through the book because I couldn't put it down, but would regret each time I turned the page because I knew that I was getting closer to the end of the book. This, however, was not one of those books. After reading about sixty pages or so, I couldn't wait for this book to end.

Rating: 5.0

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