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I'm considering reviewing all of his books over the next month or two Larry Send a noteboard - 01/12/2011 02:06:35 PM
Where he held this up as his "easy read" book. He said he had been criticised for being too erudite and people had said that he would sell more if he wrote easier books; then he had written Loana, which was an easy read, and it had sold less than any of the others.

And between the two this one is probably the better book.


And I happened to like Baudolino much more on a re-read in Italian/English.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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