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<<Please give a writer harder to put down than Dan Brown >>
So many straight lines, so little time....
I hated The DaVinci Code from the outset, not because of the writing style but because the people didn't behave like any people I have ever encountered, beginning with the murder victim. I got about halfway through before comprehending deep within my soul that it wasn't going to get any better, that the characters were going to do what the author required of them, more like the little Scotty dog in Monopoly moving eight spaces because that's what the player rolls on the dice than like an actual human being with inner motivations.
I set the book down beside my bed and a dog chewed it up. Which was sad because it was a hardback that I had borrowed from a friend, so I had to go out and buy another hardback to replace it. So there's one sale that definitely did not go to a Dan Brown fan.
Certain books, certain films, certain people cross a threshold into the public consciousness and reap the reward therefrom. Does anybody really give a poop what Paris Hilton does? And yet, there she is, constantly in the media, being Paris Hilton, famous for being famous, one of many: Levi Johnston, anyone? Anyone?
But, to throw in my two cents' worth on the question:
John D. MacDonald
Robert Ludlum
Bruce Jones
Robert B. Parker
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