please feel free to finish this sentence with whatever comes to mind. Call it a social experiment, I am curious at gageing the feelings of the general public. I work in a book store and Dan Brown sells like two dozen books a day every day, it is quite amazing to watch....if only they were reading huxley or nietsche or dostoevsky but alas they are not because the da vinci code is just too damn intersting....(and factual..!haha)
anyway personally the sentence ends with
.....................a douchbag
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Posts: 67 | Location: Canada | Registered: 16 February 2005
From what I can tell, he lacks to ability to really change the plot from one book to the next, despite the obvious differences in the subject matter. I read "Angels and Demons" and found it entertaining, but it was basically absurd, overdramatic, and mindless. He puts a little effort in inserting a couple facts in, but it seems like they are forced in to make his work seem more intellectual.
Posts: 4164 | Location: Bat Country | Registered: 18 October 2004
Originally posted by and the results are in.....were undecide: please feel free to finish this sentence with whatever comes to mind. Call it a social experiment, I am curious at gageing the feelings of the general public. I work in a book store and Dan Brown sells like two dozen books a day every day, it is quite amazing to watch....if only they were reading huxley or nietsche or dostoevsky but alas they are not because the da vinci code is just too damn intersting....(and factual..!haha)
anyway personally the sentence ends with
.....................a douchbag
Try reading a book or two, unless you are too busy rating authors with words such as "douchbag?" and spelling like a true champion. I'm sure you can find a few books on the subject, such as "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Spelling But Were Afraid to Ask. " I would say that buying a book from you is the equivalent of buying a pizza from a bulimic.
Posts: 1206 | Location: Konar Province | Registered: 04 January 2006
Sorry, but while I'm glad he's succesful, I have to say that I find him a to be rather poor writer. His characters and relationships are barely believable and his plots require a truly massive and continous suspension of disbelief.
I can take one or the other (poor characterisation OR poor plotting), but not both.
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Posts: 5 | Location: Malaysia | Registered: 19 January 2006
an awsome writer.... we need more people out there who raise questions about the life we live. We are all taught to believe what "society" wants to think and its about time someone threw the rule book out the window... for all of thoes who say hes "taboo" all i can say is its too bad that so many people are so closed minded that they cant open it just a bit to see how othersw think.. i pitty all you out there that think that way
...not a very good writer, technically. As far as sentence structure and word choice, the guy leaves a whole lot to be desired. I sometimes find it hard to believe that he's a professional writer. Perhaps he just needs a better editor.
That being said, I think his stories could probably be pretty good in the hands of a better writer. Perhaps if he was dictating...
Posts: 1376 | Location: Valparaiso, IN | Registered: 01 July 2006
Originally posted by less_success: ...not a very good writer, technically. As far as sentence structure and word choice, the guy leaves a whole lot to be desired. I sometimes find it hard to believe that he's a professional writer. Perhaps he just needs a better editor.
That being said, I think his stories could probably be pretty good in the hands of a better writer. Perhaps if he was dictating...
completely agree; he kind of reminds me of frank herbert (sp? author of "dune"); interesting ideas, but poorly executed. that said, i've only read "da vinci code" and i thought it would make a better movie than book, only to watch the movie and want to rip my head off. so, uh, kudos for "da vinci code", mr brown!
...a formula writer who lucked out on the massive publicity that book earned him. The sad thing is that most people who read it didn't understand it, which shows you the state of the United States' intelligence.
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Posts: 1071 | Location: Back, after an eternal hiatus | Registered: 24 April 2007
Well, it looks like a crappy book comes with a crappy movie.
Here are some memorable quotes from users about the movie:
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This movie is garbage from start to finish. Like Dan Brown's novels, it's packed with childish riddles and absurd plot turns that insult the intelligence of the viewer/reader. Broad daylight turns to black night instantaneously and with no explanation. Tom Hanks' character manages to drive across the entire city of Rome in 5 or 6 minutes multiple times. The entire timeline of events is utterly impossible and totally unbelievable. I'm all for suspension of belief, but this is a joke. Everything Dan Brown touches turns to crap.
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Many movies use extravagant explosions, interesting newly invented scientific phenomena, and purely internal logic (anything remotely attached to Star Trek, James Bond or MacGyver springs to the forefront of the mind), but it's generally defended by keeping the events confined in an alternate universe significantly different from our own, and consequentially requiering the creators to suspend disbelief. Not so in this case. On the contrary; ordeals are taken to ensure the viewer understands the movie happens in our reality with the same governing laws. Then someone decides to use anti-matter as an energy source and capable of igniting the sky and keep it burning for a long time. As an engineer I find it insulting to watch such nonsense passed as possible or even believable. On a different note, I've never seen any movie claimed as a thriller or anything like it where I've been able to predict almost every turn of events as much as half an hour before they are shown. The only real surprise here was the "bad guy's" motive. I'd expect it to be like in The last Templar," but no such luck. He was just mad/stupid. I won't go into details about the numerous huge glitches, but the one that put me of most was how day turned to night (permanently) as a main character entered a vehicle. The one redeeming feature, keeping me from giving a 0 was how well the picture transmitted it's message: If an organization is lead by imbeciles, one should not advocate to much openness, lest someone discovers it. I submit that if I were alone attending this production, I would (for the first time in my life) have left before the conclution of the plot.
I believe that Dan Brown is...........
.............. a douchebag.
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