A Creed for the Third Millennium

I am currently reading - or should I say trying to read - this Colleen McCullough novel for the second time (the first time had to have been 10 years ago). I'm not digging it. I don't know if it's because I've been reading historically for the last little while, and this book is set many years in the future, or if it's because McCullough's 1985 style of writing isn't doing it for me... I'm just finding it to be a bit of a slog.

There's definitely a lot of creativity at work, and I'm happy that McCullough sees the future as colder (as in impending ice age - take that all you global warming wackos!). And I think it's almost prescient that she has the Pope named Benedict. But I'm just not finding it the page-turner I remembered it being.

So, I don't think I'm going to finish this one. It's 350 pages long, I'm on page 40, it's due back at the library on Saturday, and I leave for vacation on Monday. It just isn't a vacation book. Maybe I'll try again during the winter...

A Creed for the Third Millennium