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Originally Posted by RolandD
The problem with Dan Brown is that when material in his books was believed to be factual by a great number of people, he did nothing to dispell those beliefs. Whereas, some authors, like Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, go to great lengths to explain where the facts end and the fiction begins, Brown used the controversy and deception to help his sales.
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Also, my impression is that Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton go/went to some length to check the background facts, when Dan Brown doesn't. When Crichton wrote a book about Japan he got most of his facts right. In the few pages of DaVinci that I read there were already two or three glaring errors about France.