Dan Brown

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Oh, dear...I've no wish to act as your teacher, so I'll keep this brief.

Here's the difference:

Retarded books can be written with a reading-level of 16. The vocabulary may be appropriate, but the emotional content and the stylistic conventions are immature in their development.

Seeing as you are 14, it is no surprise that you 'comprehend' all things in an exclusively literal sense. Unfortunately (for you), the world demands understanding on a slightly more intricate level. Don't worry, you have time...

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Seeing as you are 14, it is no surprise that you 'comprehend' all things in an exclusively literal sense. Unfortunately (for you), the world demands understanding on a slightly more intricate level. Don't worry, you have time...

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
In terms of literary talent, Dan Brown is a retard. In terms of marketing, Dan Brown is a genius.

So many idiots have bought his book believing that they are buying something that is more than the crapola that Cussler and his ilk come out with, but in actual fact it's pure drivel. I feel sorry for the people who actually like his books, because they are obviously rather mentally retarded, too.

Plus, based on this post and your subsequent posts, I'd glean that you are an intensely bitter individual who seems to take joy from attacking a person's intelligence. I've no clue why no one has noticed your flames yet, but rest assured that they have all been reported. I'd appreciate that we keep a positive atmosphere in the forum as a whole.

Keep it on Dan Brown guys, comments about ppl who reads or likes him are unnecessary. This is a book forum, keep it book - author related.

And if you feel like psychoanalyzing ppl based on what they read, go get a life, sorry, do it someplace else... comments like those are not welcome.

Deception Point is the one I have enjoyed the least out of all his books, I am currently near the end of Digital Fortress and while I prefer it to Deception Point, I am still rolling my eyes a lot throughout the book like I did with DP, ESPECIALLY at the love scenes, urgh.

Very easy books to read but the bloody short chapters is playing hell on my ocd! Still fun books to read for a break.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Deception Point is the one I have enjoyed the least out of all his books, I am currently near the end of Digital Fortress and while I prefer it to Deception Point, I am still rolling my eyes a lot throughout the book like I did with DP, ESPECIALLY at the love scenes, urgh.

Very easy books to read but the bloody short chapters is playing hell on my ocd! Still fun books to read for a break.

He has a very specific formula which he seems unkeen to experiment with- the 'love' scenes are awful, truly bad.

Originally posted by Soth
Da Vinci Code, while no masterpiece of literature, is an entertaining book.

Da Vinci Code is not an entertaining book! It had me at "H...", but then lost then lost me at "ello". It was boring, poorly written and the 'spectacular finale' was incredibly mundane. I once had the misfortune of reading a Clive Cussler book, and Dan Brown's strike me as being of the same cloth/used toilet paper.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Da Vinci Code is not an entertaining book! It had me at "H...", but then lost then lost me at "ello". It was boring, poorly written and the 'spectacular finale' was incredibly mundane. I once had the misfortune of reading a Clive Cussler book, and Dan Brown's strike me as being of the same cloth/used toilet paper.

I agree with you that the initial conspiracy and symbology was very interesting, but it never again met this opening promise. Instead, it fell down the drain with all the other garbage-fiction.

i just now ifnished reading the da vinci code, although i had previously never wanted to read it, i had to read it for school and found myself abosorbed into it fully, its a great piece of writing spiraling around itself in details that you should all read if you havent already

Why did you have to read Da Vinci Code for school?

outside reading project

I just finished readin the Da Vinci Code it was excellent...I can't wait to ge tmy hands on Angels and Demons! But we can't forget abaout chuck Palahnuik!!!

Dan brown is a conman

Originally posted by eleveninches
Dan brown is a conman

No he isn't, he just wrote a great work of fiction. Anyone with half a brain knows it's fiction, it's just that religious folk seem to not hear that part. 🙄

anyone who generalizes people who read a certain book and enjoy it as "retards" isobviously an idiot. While he has great ideas, he jsut doesn't put them together in a way that would be more desirable because of his bad writing. I don't believe in books like this being made for different age groups. Once your over 14, you are just as good a reader as a 50 year old with practice.

They ARE just books! people read them for entertainment purposes..... but i must admitt that Dan Brown is very good writer

I thought it was a good book, it was a fun little read-on-the-beach book. But that's it, I didn't think it was as good as it was hyped up to be. I started it expecting so much, and by the time I finished, I thought "wow, that was kind of like Umberto Eco dumbed down for people who don't read very much." Nothing in it was new to me. I had already read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "Foucault's Pendulum", so I had heard about all the conspiracy stuff before. Dan Brown didn't come up with anything new there, he just used ideas that were already out there. I'm not saying he plagiarized, he did present the material in a completely new way, in a completely new story. Its just that none of the conspiracy that everyone got crazy about was either groundbreaking or original. I still don't understand why people would get so upset over a work of FICTION, Dan Brown wasn't trying to change the world's religion, he was just trying to entertain. Which, apparantly, he succeeded at.
Oh, and before you ask, yes I did read "Angels and Demons", and I actually thought it was a hell of a lot before than "The Da Vinci Code". In "Code" I was expecting there to be mysteries and conspiracies IN the works of art themselves, as all the promotion and everything alluded to, and yet there was so very little of that in the book. "Angels and Demons" on the other hand had a lot more of that, and a lot more history that I hadn't already read about. Plus it was just a better story.
Yes, I will go see the "Da Vinci Code" movie, and I will probably like it. But I'm really waiting and hoping they'll make "Angels and Demons" into a movie too.

Re. 'The Da Vinci Code':

"Brown's novel is called a 'page-turner', partly because no one capable of reading without moving their lips would wish to linger over his prose.."

- Philip French, The Observer

Funny.