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Hi, Eric. Thank you for the response. I think you understand me. You are not against the elitist, but you have great tolerance for Dan Brown, can even appreciate him.
I've read Michael Crichton' Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Prey. They are exciting page turners. I certainly enjoy reading them, but not as much as Dan Brown's. I think they are even more shallow than Dan's works. People are talking about Dan's cardboard characters, but at least he has someone, say Robert Langdon, whose fate we readers do care. Robert Langdon has some wits, some humor, quite a lot knowlege, and a hint of love affair with the heroine. None of such things in Crichton's works. No characters there, no one, nothing, nil. It has only technologies, unfortunately the technologies themselves are a bit dated, compared with the cutting edge things in scifi. There are absolutely no depth in Crichton's works.
Am I a little picky? How can I be picky if I can put up with all the obvious flaws of Dan Brown, and can be easily pleased with his simple plot devices and shallow characters? But I do have less tolerance towards other pop writers. Maybe there is something wrong with me. I just don't know.
I am not psychologically hypnotized by Dan's fame. When I first read Da Vinci Code, it had just come out and had not accumulated the great popularity yet. Still it's love at first sight.