The iPhone is to get 3G in May 2008, apparently. Now we’re talking. Betcha they have battery problems with that.

I saw that Oprah Winfrey has just made Ken Follett’s The Pillars Of The Earth her book of the month. That’s a big deal as the publishers printed 621,000 more copies for expected sales. Now that’s what I call clout.

This is a story about cathederal builders in 12th Century England. Oprah also said that she had stopped reading it at about page 800 as she was enjoying reading it so much she didn’t want to get to the end. I know what she means, I read it several years ago and it was ridiculous, once you start it’s almost impossible to put down. There are no peaks and valleys at the end and beginning of the chapters, it just keeps rolling along (’Why does that remind me of the Mississippi? Ed).

Probably one of the best books I have ever read. I think what makes it so good is that it’s written in modern day English. If it was written in old English then that obviously would have made it harder to read. They may have spoken old English then but they were probably still talking the same way that we do now. As Follett has eputedly said, just because they lived 800 years ago that doesn’t make them any less inteligent than us, just that they hadn’t discovered or invented things yet. It’s odd when you read it as you sympathise with the characters 100% but you are constantly being reminded of what they didn’t have or know yet. For instance they ate with knves and spoons as forks hadn’t been invented. Then you think that Shakespeare was 300 years in the future. The Normans had invaded the previous century. As for Henry VIII, he wasn’t even a gleam in anyone’s eye.

A recommended book.