That Was The Week: Author, author, awful

It takes quite an author to entice a reader anywhere near a book that runs over 600 pages, excluding all bonkbusters. And while Dostoyevsky has convinced many, Dickens has managed not to quite bore and has bewildered and intrigued with his verbal trickery and invention, theirs is a talent that grips and ensures enlightenment and even joy. The point is, life above so many pages is rarefied. Accepting the fact that, unlike advertising jingles, no known author has ever laid claim to making ends m