by David Liss
Weekend thriller review! A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER by David Liss http://tinyurl.com/n4sjeqo Money! Passion! Fathers & sons! It's an excellent story, a wonderful personal tale of the high cost of unregulated capitalism.
This book was a pleasure to read from beginning to end. The author was a graduate student in the world in which this novel is set--the world of finance in 1719 London. Although, unlike him, I'm by no means an expert, the first person narrative had a great voice, a seemingly dead on period tone that ...
Well, I would have failed miserably (but gladly) if I had wished to start 2013 with a more drier read! This book held promise, especially at the start, but then it went on and on and on like the Energizer bunny walking in ultra slow motion without a slightest indication of stopping in any discernibl...
Synopsis:The book, a first-person narration, is set in 1719 in London, one year before the famous stock-market crash known in the English-speaking world as the South Sea Bubble. What happens when a big, bad corporation finds out that you know its dirty secrets and you intend to expose them? Well, it...
I usually don't like books that begin with an explanation of their reason for being which is not tied in, in some more profound way, with the main storyline – this kind of thing strikes me as amateurish and unnecessary, even in a first person account. So, given all the glowing praise for this book (...
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