Dissolution by C.J. Sansom, adapted for BBC Radio – the oeuvre is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, albeit the algorithm for The Greatest Books of All Time site has it in the 5959th place; for more of my reviews you can access https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html this is where you see more pictures and videos of my macaws, one photo is inserted here

 Dissolution by C.J. Sansom, adapted for BBC Radio – the oeuvre is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, albeit the algorithm for The Greatest Books of All Time site has it in the 5959th place; for more of my reviews you can access https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html this is where you see more pictures and videos of my macaws, one photo is inserted here

 

8 out of 10

 

The Daughter of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-fey.html is the Best Book in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, which is a list published in 1990 by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), and it came to mind while reading Dissolution, which is also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read

 

One of the Six Principles of Influence is Conformity, explained in the psychology classic by Robert Cialdini, manifest in the way we reciprocate when we receive something, this happens to the likes on Goodreads and elsewhere, and it works when reading, I realized a little earlier, this is about the Middle Ages, ergo, The Daughter of Time is invoked

The Principles of Influence include Respect for Authority, which is at work when I choose the novels I read https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/influence-psychology-of-persuasion.html they come from one of the prestigious lists, All-TIME 100, Modern Library’s Best 100, Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, Dissolution is in none of those

 

There is a caveat, maybe even a spoiler alert was required, earlier on, this note refers to an adaption of the oeuvre in question, BBC has a very good take on it, as usual, I would add, nevertheless, what I say here is not about the original, albeit, first, who cares, who gives a damn, since the war, to quote a line from a motion picture…

Second, I am confident that my perspective would be the same, were this version the complete one, maybe there would have been a little less pleasure, with the story dragging for longer, as it is, we have the formula from To The Hermitage https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/to-hermitage-by-malcolm-bradbury-author.html

There are ‘more twists, romantic fulfillment, the characters are cleverer, deeper, nobler’, if not all of them, than we meet in reality, the conclusion in To The Hermitage is that reading is preferable to the real world, I am not sure about that, however, Dissolution was a good entertainment, in the version produced by The BBC


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