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Well, to sound a contrary note, I thoroughly enjoyed "DaVinci Code". Not great literature, certainly, but a cracking good thriller, and sometimes that's all that one is after.
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Associating Brown with Ludlum is an insult to Ludlum. I'm sensitive there only because he's one of my favorite authors. Eric Lustbader did an excellent job carrying on in the Bourne series (Lustbader has a better grip on describing physical confrontations).
I can see suggesting Eco for the mysteries in those books but you're suggesting a double-diamond downhill run to someone who skies on the bunny slopes. A satisfied Dan Brown reader would get badly hurt. Oh, I did read and mostly enjoy Dan's books but they are fodder. I have low-brow taste. |
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Now you guys and gals have done it! After reading your comments, you are correct and I hadn't really noticed that DaVince Code and Angels and Demons were the same book! Explains why Angels & Demons was my favorite of the two. I thought Digital Fortress was pretty good too.
I'm the type of reader that likes to basically go "Brain Dead" while reading, meaning I don't want to really think I just want to be entertained, authors don't have to get too crazy to impress me. The only thing that drives me crazy is when they botch up anything to do with airplanes (note the pic) because I notice it. A good example was in Angels and Demons when Langdon jumps out of the helicopter and uses a blanket or something like it as a parachute. (It's been a while since I've read it) I just about retched, and if I hadn't really enjoyed the book up to that point and about to finish it I would of deleted it quick. You have to admit though, that Dan Brown started a whole new "Genre" of book subjects, I wonder how many books written recently were inspired the success of DaVince Code and A & D... (But I must admit, I am getting a bit bored with the whole Templar/Lost Document that will change the world/What does the Bite in the Apple of that picture really mean thing!) Last edited by KindleMan; 03-05-2009 at 03:59 PM. |
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That's okay -- I've already read all 5 of Dan Brown's books. The last 3 did start to indicate a pattern. I thoroughly enjoy the first two I came upon, which were DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons. (Which starts out at a co-accelerator 'rival', Cern. I'm at Fermilab. That part was specially fun!)
But -- bunny hill vs high-speed-slope. Ulp. I hope I'm not in trouble here! Bunny hill is frequently my speed. (but not on skis. Tried it once, on the bunny hill, and hated it!) Don't suppose Eco "Name of the Rose" is available in ebook format anywhere? Not at amazon, anyway. I looked there. |
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Hmm. You mean the blanket wouldn't have helped, even a little? His explanations sound good, from a lay-person physics level. Well, ok, BS in physics level. But not in aviation!
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I'll have to disagree a bit there... I love Ludlum's books and own most of them in hardcover, but he *did* write the same book over and over. In that he was no better or worse than Brown. 'Single hero against shadowy group hell-bent on world domination' pretty much describes the plot of all of them, with just the names changed.
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Dan Brown started a new genre? With a book published in 2004?! Say hello to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in 1981, based on what George Lucas started writing in the 1970's!
I would agree his commercial success spawned a bunch of copycats, as did other successes such as Harry Potter. |
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I must admit, too, that I enjoyed all of Dan Brown's books, and I'd like to see him continue to write.
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