I think not reading a book you're pretty sure you won't enjoy is a good thing :)
I agree, of course, which was more or less the point of my footnote :-) The reason I wrote "I confess" was not because I thought it was shameful per se for me not to have read the book; it was because I recognised that one might consider it a bit shameful for me to quibble at length with your criticisms without having read it, since that constitutes arguing without a good grasp of the facts.
(Perhaps odder still is that my original quibble puts me in the position of – at least slightly – defending Dan Brown against accusations of poor writing!)
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Date: 2012-09-03 09:51 am (UTC)I agree, of course, which was more or less the point of my footnote :-) The reason I wrote "I confess" was not because I thought it was shameful per se for me not to have read the book; it was because I recognised that one might consider it a bit shameful for me to quibble at length with your criticisms without having read it, since that constitutes arguing without a good grasp of the facts.
(Perhaps odder still is that my original quibble puts me in the position of – at least slightly – defending Dan Brown against accusations of poor writing!)