The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomas
September 19th 2006 05:55
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomas
I know I have been writing about nothing but fantasies and Dan Brown clones lately, but I want to clear the field before going to higher things. Sadly, the backlog never seems to end.
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomas arrived in that high season when The Da Vinci Code became a super duper seller. The rest of the clones were yet in the making and The Rule of Four was the first to capitalize on the success of Dan Brown. So much so that it has its own clones in the making like Codex.
The authors: Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomas
Paul is working on a book called Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an obscure Renaissance tome and tries to get his friend Tom interested in the project. Tom’s dad too was mad about the book and eventually died in the search to unlock its mysteries, so Tom is wary about it. Paul works on it on it like a madman and Tom intermittently but both figure out how to read the very puzzling book and finally figure out its secret.
Unlike Codex, The Rule of Four bases its plot on a real book, not an invented one. The novel is interesting when the authors take us through the labyrinth of this enigmatic book and explain its features to us but fails to build any momentum in any other department. And after all the frenetic searching, one arrives at the climax only to have a most stock-in-trade hypothesis put to us and that’s a big downer. The library of Alexandria? Pfff…….
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