In today's Guardian, it appears MPs are taking their time to read TDC (disclaimer - I haven't read it either) but I was surprised to see this other title - underlined below - on their reading list (I've corrected the title!):
"This year showed a trend among MPs and peers to read doom-laden non-fiction on current affairs, such as their fellow MP Michael Gove's Celsius 7/7, about the threat of Islam, or Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Two other titles appealed to the deeper fears of members with uncertain electoral futures: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye, by Christopher Brookmyre, and This Book Will Save Your Life, by AM Holmes."
See full article in The Guardian.
Maybe, trying to find an excuse for them, they feel they need to read it becuase they know a lot of their constitutents have read it, and they want to keep in touch? Just a thought ;-)
ReplyDeleteDo you follow that grammar blog? The person who runs it was banned from Comment is Free for repeatedly correcting its grammar!
Actually I have read the DVC (long story) and although it isn't the kind of book I usually read, it is not all that terrible. It is very easy-reading in the James Patterson (late, gone-off JP, not early, tense JP) style. The plot does not hang together very well but it is an easy,mindless read, quite suitable for MPs I would think. It also flatters the reader becuase the "code" is terribly easy, something like moving each character along one, so the reader thinks he/she is frightfully clever, as it seems to take the main character, a professional code breaker, ages to spot it.