Dan Brown

GreasyDiablo88 · 15 Nov 2013 at 21:32

I'm a huge fan of The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, the movies, and I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if Dan Brown's other work is worth checking out

Deep · 16 Nov 2013 at 00:30

His books are alright, they're throwaway reading tbh

I preferred the Sci-Fi style ones over the Religious ones

Tourm · 16 Nov 2013 at 01:17

I enjoyed Deception Point the most. Started Inferno and it seems pretty good at the moment..

Malevolence · 16 Nov 2013 at 07:28

GreasyDiablo88 said:
I'm a huge fan of The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, the movies, and I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if Dan Brown's other work is worth checking out

Why not read them and make up your own mind?

No1newts · 16 Nov 2013 at 10:13

Meh books.

Couldn't get into the one after Da Vinci code and didn't even bother with the one after.

King85 · 16 Nov 2013 at 14:03

Big fan of the others and of the Robert Langdon series I think inferno was my favourite.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 17:42

Malevolence said:
Why not read them and make up your own mind?

I didn't really want to waste time reading a book if the majority thinks it's no good

Kosmiche · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:12

They're very generic thrillers, if you have read thrillers before you will feel right at home reading dan brown.

The people who bash dan brown are people who don't like thrillers, so they think all thrillers are terrible.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:15

I like the whole conspiracy feel that The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons in regards to the symbolism and corrupt Vatican. I'd definitely read his other work if it has more of the same sort of thing

No1newts · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:56

Eames said:
They're very generic thrillers, if you have read thrillers before you will feel right at home reading dan brown.

The people who bash dan brown are people who don't like thrillers, so they think all thrillers are terrible.

I love thrillers, I don't rate Dan Brown.

Try again.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:21

No1newts said:
I love thrillers, I don't rate Dan Brown.

Try again.

Can you recommend any good, non Dan Brown thrillers instead??

bsoltan · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:29

His non Robert Langdon books are good if not better.

Digital Fortress is my favourite and Deception Point is good too.

I still need to pick up Inferno.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:32

I'll check em out

Fenris · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:39

His stuff is about as generic as the genre gets. Not necessarily bad but in no way deserve the attention they get.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:40

Any recommendations on other authors worth reading?

Scuzi · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:47

This post is written like a Dan Brown novel! Almost every sentence is like this! When the story is lacking suspense he has a trick! Can you guess what it is?! It seems to work for a lot of people! I, however, found it tedious!

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:52

Scuzi said:
This post is written like a Dan Brown novel! Almost every sentence is like this! When the story is lacking suspense he has a trick! Can you guess what it is?! It seems to work for a lot of people! I, however, found it tedious!

Lol apparently there isn't a lot of love for the Dan Brown stuff! I think I'm gonna give it a miss...

_dogma_ · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:57

There's a book called The Lucifer Code but I can't remember who wrote it, in the same vein as Dan Brown but miles better and ive read most of his stuff.

Kosmiche · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:57

Books are incredibly subjective, its like music...how do you review music its just sound. Its up to the listener if they find merit in what they hear.

Its up to you what books you think have merit.

GreasyDiablo88 · 16 Nov 2013 at 20:59

I'll go through my wife's Kindle and see if there's anything worthwhile on there haha