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|title=The Diviners

|sort=Diviners

|buy=No

|borrow=Maybe

|pages=492

|publisher=Faber and Faber

|isbn=978-0571229475

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Some book reviews write themselves. Some are hard and this one was very hard because I nearly gave up before the end of the first page. It's a skit on the opening credits of a movie. "The light that illuminates the world begins in Los Angeles." You might have other opinions but as the path of the light is tracked down to the bottom of the first page you'll probably have given up thinking. By the time that it's finished the full circuit of the world, twelve pages later, you'll have lost the will to live. A joke's a joke, Mr Moody, but that felt like you were taking the piss. Moody has been called the worst writer of his generation. That opening sequence certainly left me feeling that he was prepared to go to the ends of the earth to prove that he's a contender for the title.

My thanks to the publishers for sending this book.

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