What do you think of "Da Vinci code" author Dan Brown

Whoa yourself, Chai Tea. I agree with almost everything you say, except for one tiny detail. I love Sue Grafton's books.

rhythm -- in my opinion Angels & Demons is a better book that DVC. It's just as outrageous in its own way but it hangs together much better.

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I cant believe MM is seen as a prostitude just because people read the Bible carelessly!!!
What kind of religious people are these than can get it so wrong!!!

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Merry Andrew wrote:

Whoa yourself, Chai Tea. I agree with almost everything you say, except for one tiny detail. I love Sue Grafton's books.

Nothing wrong with Sue Grafton Merry, my husband reads everything of hers.

The original question just read as wanting to know people's opinino of the writer, not the book.

I think (maybe I'm wrong) Grafton & Brown are in about the same league as far their writing.

no offense meant Merry.

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The only novel by Dan Brown I read was that famous "Da Vinci Code" so I am able only to speak about this one.

I don't think it was written in a poor manner. It does have certain "glu effect" by sticking reader to the book and making him curious about what shall happen next.
But I dislike the book actually. Smile

To start with, I am not fond of thrillers, but even apart from that there are other things.
For example, he keeps speaking about "Da Vinci". Evil or Very Mad

If you take any book by historian of art (or actually anyone who knows something about art), you will never find "Da Vinci", but only "Leonardo".
"Da Vinci" simply says of where he was from (or was supposed to be).
It isn't that I'm meticulous, but this easily reveals a sort of...ignorance?
I am not quality religious educated, but I think we could find more of these "lapsuses" also in religious field, if someone who knows more about it than me would read carefully.
I apprehend that this is a fiction, but I still dislike it.

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I read the da vinci code and thought it was like some of the crazy stuff I read on internet many times before, but with a love interst and a bit of double crossing.

One of the other books, don't know which one, seem again to be using strange theories that are all over the internet about freemasons with a bit of a story woven in.

I enjoyed TDVC, but not enough to read other stuff by him.

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terrygallagher, welcome to A2K. You've hit the nail on the head about the internet connection. Books like these -- and the technothrillers that Tom Clancy writes, too -- are essentailly novelizations of computer games. Go to Paris (or wherever) to find the next clue! Brown is quite clever, that's all. There is no substance to his stories and no substance is intended. The fault lies with the readers who read far more into a book like TDVC than Brown ever intended. Nowhere does he pretend that this is anything but an electronic scavenger hunt. People who take the religious part seriously haven't understood what they read.

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I've read "deception point'- written. Comparing this book with Da Vinci, you wouldn't have guessed it was written by the same author. Deception Point had more action. I'd recommend it to anyone.

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Hehe. His books are written at approximately a 4th grade reading level - hence their ridiculous popularity. I mean, they've got some cool stuff to 'em, and like Merry said, Brown's rather clever, but it's pretty amazing how few verbs were really conjugated.

"Langdon walked to the building. He went inside. It was cold. The air was heavy and ancient. Langdon saw across the room the book, which lay on the pedestal. Langdon went over to the pedestal and turned around. Langdon saw spot run. Spot ran fast. Run, Spot, run!"

Obviously not a real quote, but you get the point.

I've also read Digital Fortress, and Angels and Demons. After awhile, you can predict most of the book, as in one or two people race against time and the machinations of an ancient evil organization bent on destroying western civilization, while solving seemingly irrelevant puzzles and explaining to a nearby layman everything that's happening in detail.

I'm not very impressed with his style.

Haven't read Deception Point, though, if it's that much better I'll give it a peek.

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i can't wait to see the upcoming movie... Very Happy

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His books may have the same plot but then again most films do, they seem to be going strong.

I dont think a book has to use big words(thank God)for it to be good.Im glad he made it an easy ead or I may have not finishd it and I would have missed out on loads.

I hear ther has been a big hooha over how factual the book is, even getting the Vatican in on it.It must have ruffled some feathers.
Im a tad annoyed its being turned into a film.The best way to dispell any thruth in life and make the subject matter unbelievable is to turn it into a film.

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Francisco D'Anconia wrote:

Hehe. His books are written at approximately a 4th grade reading level - hence their ridiculous popularity. I mean, they've got some cool stuff to 'em, and like Merry said, Brown's rather clever, but it's pretty amazing how few verbs were really conjugated.

"Langdon walked to the building. He went inside. It was cold. The air was heavy and ancient. Langdon saw across the room the book, which lay on the pedestal. Langdon went over to the pedestal and turned around. Langdon saw spot run. Spot ran fast. Run, Spot, run!"

Obviously not a real quote, but you get the point.

I've also read Digital Fortress, and Angels and Demons. After awhile, you can predict most of the book, as in one or two people race against time and the machinations of an ancient evil organization bent on destroying western civilization, while solving seemingly irrelevant puzzles and explaining to a nearby layman everything that's happening in detail.

I'm not very impressed with his style.

Haven't read Deception Point, though, if it's that much better I'll give it a peek.

Re the style - I could not agree more.

I simply cannot read the da Vinci Code because of it - though I keep hearing it is fun if you persist.

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