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Lilac, you know I've been reading for a few years, right? Perhaps you also failed to note where I mentioned Eric Lustbader extending the Bourne series.
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So here's my problem with Brown - after reading DaVinci Code, Dark Fortress and Angels and Demons: He talks down to his reader, and it drives me nuts. I feel like he feels compeled to explain everything (as if his reader were 5 years old) - and I figured out the ending to Dark Fortress the second the question at the end showed up, so the thirty pages (well it felt like it anyway) trying to get to the resolution wwas killing me, these are smart people right? But perhaps I have too much trivia floating around in my head.
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Sunflower, that's why he achieved such popularity. Most popular books seem to spoon-feed us so much I gag. OTOH, there are texts that go too far the other way. Uberto Eco's Foucalt's Pendulum is right on the edge for me. Some of it was surely over my head. Heck, some of Gene Wolfe's work does that to me.
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Don't know if this was posted yet:
"New Dan Brown novel coming in September" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/...ks_dan_brown_1 |
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I see it's being offered for pre-order by Amazon, too.
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I can't believe there needs to be that big of a delay between the announcement date and release date for Dan Brown's new book! I need someone in marketing to explain it to me! (ie Does it create a type of "hysteria" for the book by the time it comes out?)
Anyways, maybe this thread is what finally got things moving! KindleMan |
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