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A review by emilybryk
The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson
1.0
I don't get it.
R.J.'s sort of another in the Smilla's-Sense-of-Snow style of hero (someone I find perplexing in his conventional unconventionality and generally mysterious belovedness), and there are a whole lot of weird exoticism of India (best line: "like a loyal Indian wife throwing herself on her husband's funeral pyre, it headed towards Kusum's iron tomb.")
I mean, I guess I do sort of get it. I read this in about 48 hours, all told, with New Year's Eve in the middle, and it was fast and easy and I think I even snuck in a few chapters at 3 in the morning after a NYE party and didn't feel like I missed a single plot point. It's an easy and brisk book, and I guess that's the draw. I don't know. I'm trying to be a nice person here.
R.J.'s sort of another in the Smilla's-Sense-of-Snow style of hero (someone I find perplexing in his conventional unconventionality and generally mysterious belovedness), and there are a whole lot of weird exoticism of India (best line: "like a loyal Indian wife throwing herself on her husband's funeral pyre, it headed towards Kusum's iron tomb.")
I mean, I guess I do sort of get it. I read this in about 48 hours, all told, with New Year's Eve in the middle, and it was fast and easy and I think I even snuck in a few chapters at 3 in the morning after a NYE party and didn't feel like I missed a single plot point. It's an easy and brisk book, and I guess that's the draw. I don't know. I'm trying to be a nice person here.