Finished reading: Conclave by Robert Harris 📚
After my recent viewing of the film based on this, my daughter got me the book for Christmas.
It’s surprising how compelling a book can be when you know exactly what’s going to happen, and it’s about something that you wouldn’t normally give a toss about. Though on the latter, I suppose the boy can leave the church, but it always leaves its mark, or something.
Anyway, it turns out this Harris guy can really write. Who’d’ve thought?
I note with interest that the ‘why this story, why now’ question that I mentioned when writing about he film, never even crossed my mind while reading this. I approach a book with a different set of expectations from how I do a film, maybe.
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