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If I wanted to base my whole religon beliefs on a book... I'd read the bible...
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I liked Angels & Demons and Digital Fortress. Hell, I even enjoyed Deception Point. The way he can take a bunch of mostly substantiated facts and form a theory and plot around those facts is great. But why does every time, the whole freaking conspiracy has to boil down to one person!?! I can't stand that.
Reading his books is kind of like watching **** for me. Read it/watch it for the fun, but don't for Bob's sake, read into it for any earth-shattering, sky-opening epiphanies.
Reading his books is kind of like watching **** for me. Read it/watch it for the fun, but don't for Bob's sake, read into it for any earth-shattering, sky-opening epiphanies.
It was an ok book. I read it once. I've not been able to make myself read it twice. Angels and Demons was much better. I've also go a third book by him that I just cant seem to get into, Digital Fortress. I dont know what I think about their making a movie of it.
I just read Deception Point like a week ago and it was pretty disappointing. As Dana said, it was hard to figure out what the hell those stupid Delta soldiers were so "Oh sh it we've got a major problem here" about. And then when you realize it's plankton you're like, ok, wtf do Special Ops soldiers know about plankton??
Dan Brown books are pretty terrible. He's more concerned about that "end of my two page chapter" cliffhanger than anything else. But writing aside, it's a really fun guilty pleasure. I'm re-reading Angels and Demons now and although I agree that it's better than Da Vinci, it's still very Dan Brownish. And of course it's got the same concept. Must-solve-mystery-with-beautiful-European-woman-whose-Daddy-was-murdered
Dan Brown books are pretty terrible. He's more concerned about that "end of my two page chapter" cliffhanger than anything else. But writing aside, it's a really fun guilty pleasure. I'm re-reading Angels and Demons now and although I agree that it's better than Da Vinci, it's still very Dan Brownish. And of course it's got the same concept. Must-solve-mystery-with-beautiful-European-woman-whose-Daddy-was-murdered
Thumbelyna the Hand wrote:
Reading his books is kind of like watching **** for me. Read it/watch it for the fun, but don't for Bob's sake, read into it for any earth-shattering, sky-opening epiphanies.
/nod
/makes note to watch **** with Thumb sometime
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I also thought that Angels and Demons was better than The Da Vinci Code. I did enjoy The Code though. I've read 4 of Dan's books (I think that's all he has?) and they all had similar parts. If I remember correctly: Guy gets called to some place, has to go to some other place with one an attractive female, try to solve a mystery, barely do it, fall in love.
Atleast that seems to be the summary of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Deception Point and Digital Fortress might have been different, I'm having trouble placing events in those books at the moment.
Anyway.. I like his books. I read Angels and Demons in one day, just because I couldn't put it down. Da Vinci Code took a little longer because I started reading on a monday and had to go to work. Reading those two books also made me realize that I'd like to visit some of the places in them one day. Just so I could see the locations that are mentioned.
Atleast that seems to be the summary of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Deception Point and Digital Fortress might have been different, I'm having trouble placing events in those books at the moment.
Anyway.. I like his books. I read Angels and Demons in one day, just because I couldn't put it down. Da Vinci Code took a little longer because I started reading on a monday and had to go to work. Reading those two books also made me realize that I'd like to visit some of the places in them one day. Just so I could see the locations that are mentioned.
I haven't read any of his other books, but I just read the Da Vinci Code the other day. It was ok, but I think that any reasonably well-read person would really have to suspend their disbelief to get into the book. That's what I had to do, because I found myself picking apart all the errors. Once I just settled into it and ignored all the factual flaws, it wasn't a bad read. I'd recommend it to anyone, but I'd also point out that the bulk of what Dan Brown presents as fact... isn't.
This month's Men's Health and Women's Health are both pretty good so far.
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Danalog the Vengeful Programmer wrote:
Sir Sassythief wrote:
If I wanted to base my whole religon beliefs on a book... I'd read the bible...
This one?
I meant to ask you what you thought about The Good Book, I read it and thought it was hilarious! It's a great moment in literature when you can make a valid argument with a idiotic basis.
I'm so getting my specialty license plate "FSMFTW"
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Atleast that seems to be the summary of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Deception Point and Digital Fortress might have been different, I'm having trouble placing events in those books at the moment.
Digital Fortress not so much romance as the hero and heroine are already together. Deception Point I think they were former rivals or something, but I refuse to read it again and find out, because it just sucked so badly.
Did someone mention a Digital Fortres movie? Oh god no. It'd be like a longer, crappier episode of 24. For how fast things move at the end it'd be mind bogglign to watch and udnerstand. The code-breaking scenes would be hell on so many levels.
I actually had picked up Holy Blood, Holy Grail a few years ago and read it, so when Da Vinci Code came out, I mostly wound up just breezing through it and nodding a lot, skipping paragraphs here and there.
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