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Originally Posted by Crowl
I finished reading it at the weekend and even though I had approached it with low expectations, it failed to even meet those. Regardless of whether you think his work is good or not, this simply wasn't even a good dan brown novel let alone anything else.
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It's written as a movie and that's what it is for, pure entertainment, nothing more.
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Originally Posted by Superlucky
Yeah, but are you just now trudging through the beginning of The Formula?
1. Langdon is summoned,
2. Langdon flashes his Mickey Mouse watch,
3. you are told about Langdon's claustrophobia,
4. you meet the antagonist (a psycho with weird skin),
5. you meet the dark-haired, beautiful scientist who will accompany Langdon on his adventure and
6. you get a flashback to a Harvard symbology lecture.
At some point early in the book Langdon also has to swim a few laps before donning his turtleneck and Harris Tweed jacket.
The Formula is not always in this particular order, but if you're early in the book I would guess you're still slugging away at this part.
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You forgot the annoying bureaucrat and the wild goose chase langdon is forced into eventually...