A grailing we will go...

[morgan_dhu]

For anyone who found my previous rant about the Da Vinci Code nonsense interesting, my discussion of the literary histoy of the Holy Grail as presented in Richard Barber's book The Holy Grail: History of a Legend is up on my book journal: bibliogramma.

You know, I wouldn't have minded at all if Brown had said "This is a works of fiction. I've taken some historical people and things and reinterpreted them as is my right as a creator of works of the imagination, but this is literature, not history."

But no, he said it's all based on fact, when it simply isn't, and that makes all the difference to me.

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[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

I tend to deal with the "spreading stories over a huge swatch of time" by reading the fiction fairly quickly and only having one or two fiction books on the go at once. I find non-fiction is easier to read in small batches.

Of course, it also helps that I have a phenomenally fast reading rate. It's not uncommon for me to read a fair-sized novel in an evening. Non-fiction I take a little longer with, becasue I usually stop often to think about issues raised in the book, and perhaps discuss them with my partner if he's interested in the topic as well.