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[sombrefan]

Does anyone else not like Dan Brown's books? Or I am alone in these swamp of mediocreness? They're just so badly written. Crayon written pot boilers.

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I haven't read a one.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

There is a time and place for potboilers, but yeah, I just haven't felt the urge.

Yes

[mushypeas.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the first book for half of it, until I realised that half of the twists you can guess before they do, which is frustrating, and also the mediochre ending. It's just a spiced up american crime novel pretending to be intellectual. So based on one book, i'm not a HUGE fan.

I'm finding the same with the OC on another note. Maybe I'm just anti-hype..

[leoff.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed reading "DaVinci Code", but haven't read anything else.

Thing is, after reading that, Sister Laurie convinced me to read a book, "The Rule of Four", which is the same premise, but much more character-driven and, in my opinion, is a much better story.

Yeah...not so much the fan

[bowen29.livejournal.com]

I found them to be predictable. And the hype...my god! My mother insisted on watching this documentary about the truth behind the DaVinci Code the other night. Blech. I kept shouting at the screen, "It's fiction! Poorly written fiction at that!"

sad to say

[swersfreakshow.livejournal.com]

I've read 3 of his books. They're interesting but nothing wonderful or worthy of the praise they get. The worst part of each book is they end and he keeps writing. In the case of Angels&Demons there are a good 20 pages of rhetorical nonsense at the end. pointless.

I like them in the same way I like...

[ruby2andor.livejournal.com]

... Agatha Christie's work. Perhaps the writing could be better, but it's familiar.

I haven't read any

[theloa.livejournal.com]

Dan Brown's books are suffering from what I like to call the Braveheart effect. When something becomes so grotesquely over-hyped that I lose any and all urge I ever had to consume it. I finally saw Braveheart a couple of years ago and was underwhelmed. I suspect something similar will happen with The Da Vinci Code.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Read "The Da Vinci Code", liked it cos it was such a quick read and sometimes I want quick reads, but there is much better than Dan Brown, yes.

And I hate the way one of my colleagues keeps insisting "it is true". I want to slap him over the head with a fish.

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