that da vinci code, I'm thinking of reading it....any good? Options

[Shanthi]

I heard it was a fabulous book....has anyone in here read it??? what's ur opinion?

[Clarisse]

Here's what I think of it.

I, personally, can't stand Dan Brown.

I read the Da Vinci Code.

I thought it was decent- not spectacular, all action and not much else, I thought, a shallow read- so I went out and bought the other three books he's written.

I started Deception Point, read the very beginning and sorta got the feeling I had just experienced deja vu. The prologue was almost exactly the same as that of Da Vinci Code, just set somewhere freezing cold. Some dude dies in a museum in the prologue of DVC, someone gets thrown off of a plane in the middle of some snow-covered place in DP. I read the book, then picked up Angels & Demons to find that a physicist dies in its prologue. I didn't even read Digital Fortress after that, but when I found it in my book shelf just now, and once again, someone's bit the dust in the prologue.

It seemed to the Dan Brown had no originality- I mean, he researched his subjects very well never mind, I've heard he got his wife to do all the researching for him, but it's just the same. Take Deception Point and Da Vinci Code. Highly important intelligentsia dies in the prologue. Protagonist's an intellectual male who comes to the aid of some super important educational thing. One's got to do with art and Christianity, one has to do with life on a different planet based on some bugs in a glacier. Or something like that. They both meet women who help them, and they go through peril for the sake of knowledge. Blech.
I can't stand it when an author is exactly the same in all of his stories. They're all action based, with intelligent protagonist's out on the quest for knowledge. Dan Brown's same, boring old story line made me dislike everything about him, and that includes his stories. I barely classify him as an author- merely a cliched researcher who sets his information to a hopelessly repeated plot line. Not to mention the dialogue was horribly written- exactly like a movie script, and his characters were very very flat. They were all bland, like cardboard figures of the characters themselves. They were there, you could see them, but nothing was going on inside their heads that could qualify them as realistic. Nor is there a strong moral. If you aren't a writer, you'll probably like The Da Vinci Code, but I'll pass on it.

[*salcha4u*]

Here's what I think of it.

I, personally, can't stand Dan Brown.

I read the Da Vinci Code.

I thought it was decent- not spectacular, all action and not much else, I thought, a shallow read- so I went out and bought the other three books he's written.

I started Deception Point, read the very beginning and sorta got the feeling I had just experienced deja vu. The prologue was almost exactly the same as that of Da Vinci Code, just set somewhere freezing cold. Some dude dies in a museum in the prologue of DVC, someone gets thrown off of a plane in the middle of some snow-covered place in DP. I read the book, then picked up Angels & Demons to find that a physicist dies in its prologue. I didn't even read Digital Fortress after that, but when I found it in my book shelf just now, and once again, someone's bit the dust in the prologue.

It seemed to the Dan Brown had no originality- I mean, he researched his subjects very well never mind, I've heard he got his wife to do all the researching for him, but it's just the same. Take Deception Point and Da Vinci Code. Highly important intelligentsia dies in the prologue. Protagonist's an intellectual male who comes to the aid of some super important educational thing. One's got to do with art and Christianity, one has to do with life on a different planet based on some bugs in a glacier. Or something like that. They both meet women who help them, and they go through peril for the sake of knowledge. Blech.
I can't stand it when an author is exactly the same in all of his stories. They're all action based, with intelligent protagonist's out on the quest for knowledge. Dan Brown's same, boring old story line made me dislike everything about him, and that includes his stories. I barely classify him as an author- merely a cliched researcher who sets his information to a hopelessly repeated plot line. Not to mention the dialogue was horribly written- exactly like a movie script, and his characters were very very flat. They were all bland, like cardboard figures of the characters themselves. They were there, you could see them, but nothing was going on inside their heads that could qualify them as realistic. Nor is there a strong moral. If you aren't a writer, you'll probably like The Da Vinci Code, but I'll pass on it.

Agreed. I read all four of his books (Deception Point, Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, and Da Vinci Code). Two books in two settings. I felt like I was reading the same thing, with slightly different ideas and people...yeah, it gets boring. I was actually impressed with most of his research and ability to incorporate it into the story, but his wife did it for him? Wtf!