Leaving out Robbie...seven people have posted and no one (Susan has made some polite noises, granted) has had anything positive to say about the book or the author. No one has even read the book, of course!
I've no intention of so doing. I suffered through too much of
The Da Vinci Code and took a cursory glance at
Angels and Demons to see if it was any better. It wasn't. I'm not going to live long enough to read all the good books there are to read without wasting my dwindling time on the dreadful ones. If you want me to scrape together something positive about the man, I could say that he has some interesting plot ideas (although very far from original -
The Da Vinci Code is a pretty straightforward rip-off in fictional form of
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh, touted as non-fiction) but his execution of said ideas is atrocious.
Dan Brown's writing is exceptional
I'm in complete agreement, except by it I mean exceptionally bad to the point of being laughable.
his detailing is exceptional, his ability to view religion, atheism, science etc. from an equal perspective is exceptional.... his balance is exceptional.
You are aware that he writes fiction, yes?
Maybe that is the problem [...]
No, the problem is that he's a hack who has made himself a very rich man by churning out tenth-rate potboilers. No one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the general public, as someone once correctly said.
