Maybe its people who don't like sad, tired, predictable formulas that he's already written ten times? And the clichéd way he writes? Eugh its dross. Utter dross.I thoroughly enjoyed Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, didnt think they were "trash" at all. Its only book snobs and people that like to be different that say such things. My mum reads hundreds of books from all genres and she enjoyed both so they cant be that bad imo
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[booksnob] Ah well, that's exactly the sort of behaviour we'd expect from you low-brow plebs. [/booksnob]
While I'll never say they are award winning works of art or classics, I have enjoyed all of his work so far.
They are easy to pickup and read, very addictive and highly enjoyable.
Others like LotR, while Classics and vastly superior, have a degree of commitment required to read them. They aren't easy to read!
Personally, I'll be in Tunisia next week reading this on the beach.
They are easy to pickup and read, very addictive and highly enjoyable.
Others like LotR, while Classics and vastly superior, have a degree of commitment required to read them. They aren't easy to read!
Personally, I'll be in Tunisia next week reading this on the beach.
Da Vinci Code is a truly awful book. His literary technique is non-existent and the narrative was so badly paced it was painful to read.
The deus ex machina at the end was utterly criminal.
Try JRR Tolkien's "The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun". It's introduction is a guide on how to read it to start with..
Dan Brown is no better or worse than the likes of Jeffrey Deaver etc. It's funny that people have to come in here to express their disgust at a new Dan Brown book, I have a funny feeling that if this thread concerned any other 'mainstream' writer no-one would bother to even open the thread.
Just seems like slagging off Dan Brown is a way to show you're 'clever.' Well done! Some of us readers of dross also read Dostoyevsky, Zamyatin, Turgenev and Bulgakov as well!
Just seems like slagging off Dan Brown is a way to show you're 'clever.' Well done! Some of us readers of dross also read Dostoyevsky, Zamyatin, Turgenev and Bulgakov as well!
Not to add to the high-brow snobbery in here already*, but I can't help but laugh that Lord of the Rings is people's idea of a intellectual book.
*I quite like Dan Brown's books. Sure, he's the literary equivalent of Michael Bay, but hey, Bay's films entertain me at times too.
*I quite like Dan Brown's books. Sure, he's the literary equivalent of Michael Bay, but hey, Bay's films entertain me at times too.
Having been the only one to mention LOTR, I referenced it because it was critically acclaimed, rather than because it was intellectual.
Well done, you've outsnobbed us all.
Reading good authors (are they good? I've only heard of the big D) doesn't suddenly make Brown a good author. He isn't, and likely never will be.
Turgenev is overrated anyway. I got more out of Koestler's Darkness at Noon than I did from Fathers and Sons.
Dostoevsky is the man. Read House of the Dead and see if you can get through two chapters without wincing.
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I've just finished reading this and I am very disappointed. After a huge build up, the end was absolutely crap. It is a mark of my disappointment that I can be no more constructive than that!
Dan Brown needs a bloody good kick for penning such a dreadful end. I expected a much better conclusion to this story
Dan Brown needs a bloody good kick for penning such a dreadful end. I expected a much better conclusion to this story
I dont think its so much that, I have not read any of the authors you've mentioned, but I was still with my Ex-wife when the whole Dan Brown fuss started and she tried to get me to read them, I tried the Da vinci code, and by Christ, its utter trash.
His books are one step below those you see in Whsmiths with a picture of an exploding helicopter on the front.
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I read the The Da Vinci Code, thought it was okay, did make me laugh the way every single chapter ends in a cliffhanger.
Then I read Angels and Demons which was basically the same book all over again - Dan Brown, the Status Quo of the literary world.
Then I read Angels and Demons which was basically the same book all over again - Dan Brown, the Status Quo of the literary world.
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Just finished this book. read all his others and I did enjoy this book, lots of twists etc just thought the ending ie last 20 or so pages could have been better put. Apart from that, I found it quite hard to put down.
Now I need a new book........
Now I need a new book........
I am reading it now got to the first 100 pages. It seems to me that Brown is struggling with Langdons character.
You have got to love book snobs. Take Brown's writing as a story it is engaging and well written and certainly no worse than some so called classics out there ...cough LOTR.
Anything that gets people reading and away from X factor is a good thing imo.
You have got to love book snobs. Take Brown's writing as a story it is engaging and well written and certainly no worse than some so called classics out there ...cough LOTR.
Anything that gets people reading and away from X factor is a good thing imo.