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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I have yet to read Dan Brown. Some highly intelligent people seem tlike him and many highly intelligent people do not.
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I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence. It's what you expect from and enjoy in books. It's different for everyone.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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.
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Yes, I can imagine
I used to read Tom Clancy books and to enjoy Chuck Norris movies some years ago
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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.
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I doubt very much that anybody will tell you "descriptive twaddle about the morals, attitudes and scenery" makes a good book. In my opinion, a truly good book gives you hints about all this and lets you build the rest on your own. And that is precisely my problem with writers like Dan Brown. Nothing is left to my imagination, there is no question, no doubt of any kind, no uncertainty. I'm supposed to see, hear and feel exactly what he wrote and nothing else. It's all boringly written down, there's nothing for me to do. It's about as exciting as a mail-order catalog to me, and less useful.