i think i am hooked on books such as the one i am reading currently -- the rule of four. the premise isnt that great, its not a fast moving action and nobody is on the lookout to kill anybody else (well thats not entirely true, but you get what i mean). the thing that hooks me to books like this is the fact that the protagonists try to solve age-old books (the one this time round is called the hypnerotomachia poliphili by francesco colonna) and i just LOVE how that book actually exists and that renaissance scholars have spent centuries trying to decipher it and only have been able to recently, due to the complexity of the text and the nested cipherings that are included within.

cant wait to read more and figure out what crypt is buried with what secret tellings..