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Pompeii
by Robert Harris
The Lost 40 Pages(8/27/2008)
Straight out of The Titanic stable (if there is chaos, go to it!). This is a cumbersome read, weighted down by a onslaught of detail ('realism') that works hard to disguise the incredible plot devices. As if that wasn't bad, there are no less than 40 pages missing in my …more copy...surely not the only one!(less)
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