After so long, i finally finished this book. Think i've been reading it for almost a year!!!! But thanks to encouragement of the owner of a book rental store, i managed to make time every nite and finished at least a chapter before turning in.
But as i came close to the end, i could not stop at just one chapter!!!! Archer just got a firm hold over me - and i put aside everything and devoured every page of it hungrily until the end.
I can't remember being so excited and so into it for a movie of a TV show for so long - yet, these black words on rough news print paper garnered more excitement for me than the live moving pictures of any movie/tv show in recent times. I was like a kid on Christmas day, just bubbling over with excitement!!!!
But i have to say i did not feel the same thruout the book. Still, it is the best read i have had for a long long time. The book is loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo. So basically, it was about how a man was sent to jail for a crime he did not commit - and how he got out and took revenge on those who framed him.
Perhaps what made me enjoy it was the fact was it had things which were very familiar to me. For instance, the setting was based in London - specifically, East London! And there were a lot of courtroom drama. The finale actually took place in the courtroom - and Archer is simply a master in writing it out!
Having said that, he made a small mistake that only lawyers would have noticed - he referred to the case as "...the Crown versus Daniel Arthur Cartwright...". A very common mistake made by lay people. After all, these cases are usually written out as "R v Daniel Arthur Cartwright" - but the "v" is not "versus". It is "against".
But i'm nitpicking aren't i?
My status as a Jeffrey Archer fan has been reconfirmed! Now i'm looking for Paths of Glory - and while doing so, i found out he's having another book out next month!!!! Woohoo!!!!
*Their cover of this classic by The Miracles.
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