Title: More about Princeton University than any real mystery
Product review: Aaagh! Against my better judgement, I stuck with this book through the first 200 pages of tedium. It started to pick up a little then but not nearly enough. The authors seemed to labour the point of knowing the princeton campus and faculty as if it would add some authenticity to the book. It doesn't - the book is marketed as the unravelling of an ancient mystery. Maybe they should rebrand as a tourist guide to princeton campus. A small fraction of the book is devoted to 'the mystery' and the unravelling of the coded messages is painfully drawn out and about as dry as my tongue with a hangover. The characters are annoying and I found myself hoping for a freak hurricane to arrive and sweep the whole lot of them away. I now find myself putting the book away - unfinished with only about 20% of it left - I just cannot muster another ounce of endurance for this book which I had hoped would lead me into interesting and unfamiliar areas.
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