Review: The Impossible Book
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
The book is quite, quite bad! I quit after reading less than 20%, so I might have missed any late redeeming value, but I seriously doubt it. Up to the point I decided to quit the plot was at a sixth grade level and the personae cut and pasted from the cheapest pulp romance. Don't expect anything exciting from the sex scenes, either. In addition to the shoddy quality, the text is full of inaccuracies and outright fallacies. The author doesn't know the differences among a pistol, a revolver and a Derringer. Romanesque architecture fluorishes during the Renaissance and boasts of tall towers and flying buttresses (how quaint!). Aldo sips sweet espresso in Milan in 1872, full twelve years before a patent for the first espresso machine was granted to Angelo Moriondo of Turin (no. 33/256 dated 16 May 1884). And these are but few pearls collected at random. Avoid!