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I have yet to read Dan Brown. Some highly intelligent people seem tlike him and many highly intelligent people do not.
I will have to get around to it one of these days.
I find Stuart Woods, James Patterson and on occasion Jack Higgins to be terrible writers with stilted repetitive dialog etc. but the plots and characters interest me. After a bad day at work there is a certain appeal to reading a "kill em all if they can't take a joke" kind of book.
For me a book where I can envisage the characters in a general way is better than a lot of well written introspection and descriptive twaddle about the morals, attitudes and scenery. In a work of ficton three pages of unbroken description is almost always two pages too many. Like move it along folks.
Must be many people who enjoy what I don't and perhaps I will join them someday
Helen
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