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Friday, March 09, 2007

the last templar (2006)

The Last Templar (Raymond Khoury)

you've got to give some credit to dan brown. all imitators have so far been failures. i mean, sure the copycats sell millions of books but they're not nearly as gripping as brown's book(s). the last templar suffers from a weird structure, lack of intriguing characters, and generally, isn't memorable for much of anything. i just sped through it to get to the "revelation/reveal;" which didn't even end up being that exciting.

3 comments:

Bookgirl said...

i can't believe this exists and you never TOLD ME! i don't even know you anymore!!!

Unknown said...

"The Last Templar" by Ray Khoury takes you on a cheesy, written-for-Hollywood chase for the diary of Jesus Christ through 500-pages of paperback and at the end of the book your main characters destroy the 'diary' without translating a word. His story is not unlike a popular joke, we played each other in kindergarten whic was all about the expenses taken to safeguard this 'secret', you then waited till the person you were telling the 'joke' asked you what was the secret was. "Oops, I forgot what the secret," was the lame joke's punchline. If you like this type of messing with your mind, buy Khoury's book. All he does is plant an endless stream of seeds against the authenticity of Jesus's divinity while at the same time using capitalized "He" to refer to him in pronoun form and not daring to finish off his story as though he were Jesus himself. I wonder why he stopped himself

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