http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Fri, 25 May 2012 14:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/comment-page-1/#comment-33365 jus'askin Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:40:23 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=9143#comment-33365 Can't help wondering what the first hand/second hand ratio of Salman Rushdie is. My suspicion is 1/1 the latter being largely mint past the first chapter. Can’t help wondering what the first hand/second hand ratio of Salman Rushdie is.
My suspicion is 1/1 the latter being largely mint past the first chapter.

]]> http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/comment-page-1/#comment-33300 Tim Newman Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:55:47 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=9143#comment-33300 I'm with David. Normally I wouldn't dream of damaging a book, but the single exception was when I tore <em>The Da Vinci Code</em> in half when on holiday in Thailand so my wife and I could read it at the same time. I’m with David. Normally I wouldn’t dream of damaging a book, but the single exception was when I tore The Da Vinci Code in half when on holiday in Thailand so my wife and I could read it at the same time.

]]> http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/comment-page-1/#comment-33299 David Gillies Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:08:55 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=9143#comment-33299 I didn't have the heart to inflict Dan Brown on a charity shop. <i>Angels and Demons</i> is one of the very few books I have tossed in the trash partially read. I've failed to finish books before, of course, but this was such an appallingly meretricious piece of rubbish I felt compelled to dispose of it in the appropriate manner (I should've flushed it down the bog.) If I recall, the final straw was when one of the characters, who is meant to be director of CERN, gets the ratio of the nuclear diameter to atomic diameter wrong by a factor of ten. This would make the fine structure constant ten times too large and mean, <i>inter alia</i>, that stars, CERN directors, Dan Browns and formulaic pulp novels would not exist. I didn’t have the heart to inflict Dan Brown on a charity shop. Angels and Demons is one of the very few books I have tossed in the trash partially read. I’ve failed to finish books before, of course, but this was such an appallingly meretricious piece of rubbish I felt compelled to dispose of it in the appropriate manner (I should’ve flushed it down the bog.) If I recall, the final straw was when one of the characters, who is meant to be director of CERN, gets the ratio of the nuclear diameter to atomic diameter wrong by a factor of ten. This would make the fine structure constant ten times too large and mean, inter alia, that stars, CERN directors, Dan Browns and formulaic pulp novels would not exist.

]]> http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/comment-page-1/#comment-33294 ChrisM Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:56:29 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=9143#comment-33294 They've got a nerve considering Sam Brown is the non-de-plume of guardian writer Jonathan Freedland. They’ve got a nerve considering Sam Brown is the non-de-plume of guardian writer Jonathan Freedland.

]]> http://timworstall.com/2009/08/21/shock-horror-6/comment-page-1/#comment-33283 Tim Almond Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:13:22 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=9143#comment-33283 No-one keeps unread copies of Dan Brown books on their shelves for their friends to see. No-one keeps unread copies of Dan Brown books on their shelves for their friends to see.

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