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I'm finally reading The DaVinci Code
Topic Started: Mar 31 2006, 09:57 AM (619 Views)
kenny
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Whew!
Great book!
It really moves.

I'm up to the part where Langdon joins up with Neveu in front of the Mona Lisa.
Don't spoil it for me.

Anyone read it?
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ycul
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Yeah I've read it. It's awful as a piece of literature but has a great plot, and pace too. I won't say anything more as I don't want to give anything away. Enjoy...... :)
How now, brown cow.
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kenny
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Awful literature?
Oh crap.
Now I'm ashamed I'm enjoying it.
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ycul
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Don't be, I wasn't. :D
How now, brown cow.
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John D'Oh
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Have you got up to the bit where they find Isaac Newton's balls and prove that he was the son of Frederick the Great?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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Ummmm . . No ???
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ycul
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I thought Kenny made clear his request for people not to spoil things for him John. :no:
How now, brown cow.
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George K
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Kenny, I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book. Taken with a huge and I mean HUGE lump of salt (this is FICTION, folks) and the understanding that Brown simply makes up a lot of things (as in FICTION) it's not a bad thriller.

I found the last 1/4 ponderous and mundane. Also a disappointment.

Wanna read a REAL thriller?

Fredrick Forsyth: Odessa File, Day of the Jackal, Devil's Alternative, and my favorite, Icon.

You won't be able to put them down. Much more accurate (historically) than Brown's stuff, and better written.
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kenny
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Oh great

Now I'm expecting to be dissapointed in the last 1/4.


:mad2:


Why did I start this thread before I finished the book? :doh:
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DivaDeb
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I have to agree, George. This sort of thing is my genre of choice, but I found it pretty tiresome down the stretch. I just got done with one I liked a lot by Dean Koontz called Forever Odd.

FWIW Kenny, maybe you'll enjoy the last bit more than I did. Lots of people do.
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OOH! Dean Koontz!

Sole Survivor! Creepy good thriller!
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kenny
Mar 31 2006, 01:14 PM
Ummmm . . No ???

Neither have I.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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John D'Oh
Mar 31 2006, 10:26 AM
kenny
Mar 31 2006, 01:14 PM
Ummmm . .  No  ???

Neither have I.

Really?
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I read DC. It was okay. While I was visiting my hometown a year or so ago, I went into the little library there looking for it. They didn't have it, but they suggested a copy of Brown's earlier book, "Angels and Demons." My library card there had expired about 25 years ago, but the librarian (the mother of a childhood friend) said, "Oh go ahead and take it; I know you'll bring it back." (I love small towns). I read the first 125 pages that weekend; at least that much of it was great - better than DaVinci, which I ended up buying later. did anyone else read A&D, and how did you think it compared to DaVinci?
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DivaDeb
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OOH! Dean Koontz!



yeah...I like his books. His stories are creepy enough to be interesting without making me feel like I need to sleep with a night light :biggrin:
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Mar 31 2006, 01:28 PM
I read DC. It was okay. While I was visiting my hometown a year or so ago, I went into the little library there looking for it. They didn't have it, but they suggested a copy of Brown's earlier book, "Angels and Demons." My library card there had expired about 25 years ago, but the librarian (the mother of a childhood friend) said, "Oh go ahead and take it; I know you'll bring it back." (I love small towns). I read the first 125 pages that weekend; at least that much of it was great - better than DaVinci, which I ended up buying later. did anyone else read A&D, and how did you think it compared to DaVinci?

I think A&D is his best book.

Very similar to DC, but I thought A&D was just more fun and cool to hear all about Rome and the Vatican. Of course, the ending action sequence was a little to far of a stretch, still his best book, IMO.

Kenny, enjoy the book! I thought it was a fantastic read and worth re-reading again later on! :)

Deception Point is also a really good (and different) book compared to AD and DC. Check it out!

Finally, Digital Fortress is pretty relevant now with the NSA, but I thought it was mediocre.

Have fun! :excited:
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George K
Mar 31 2006, 10:23 AM
OOH! Dean Koontz!

Sole Survivor! Creepy good thriller!

My father is a Koontz NUT. I mean, nut. He's read every one, and is first in line at Waldenbooks when a new one comes out.

Did you read/like Odd Thomas? I didn't get the second book yet, but I heard it's good.
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I quite liked the Davinci Code, it was fun and interesting though i can understand why some of the faithful didn't like it; I disliked Angels and demons because i could not disengage the science vs. religion debate from the thriller side of the book.
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Mar 31 2006, 03:07 PM


Did you read/like Odd Thomas?

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Odd Thomas.

I know there's a sequel out but I haven't read it. If anyone here does, please, let me know if it's as good as the first.

Deb, did you read the first one? Was the second as good?
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Nina
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I read them back-to-back (DC first, then A&D). I ripped through both of them in about two days and enjoyed them, but I must admit that even when actually reading A&D I would get parts of the plot confused with DC. Now I find they are completely twisted together in my memory.

I had the same complaints with both books--very intriguing setups, clever ideas for what constitutes a thriller. Then it gets all shoot 'em up and I find it completely unbelievable--which is a shame, because I think the shoot 'em up scenes were really unnecessary. The fascinating parts were the plots, IMO.
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Perfect post Nina...I agree!
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A&D was my favourite.

Then Deception Point and Digital Fortress. (i eally can't decide which of the two i preferred. I found themboth incredible.)

Then DC.

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iainhp
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Angels & Demons - the historical stuff was interesting, but the storyline was terrible. A bomb is placed somewhere under the Vatican with a camera on it so the countdown could be watched. If you can receive a radio signal (ie tv camera broadcast), then you can triangulate and pinpoint exactly where it's coming from. Wouldn't the smart people working at CERN know this kind of stuff?

It went over the top when Langdon jumps out of the helicopter using a tarpaulin for a parachute - Indiana Jones maybe......but not Langdon.

Da Vinci code I enjoyed more.

I actually prefer Dale Brown to Dan Brown (Flying Fortress vs Digital Fortress)!

Am reading "The Last Templar" right now - enjoyable enough thus far.
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Iaianhp, although I agree with you...I strongly urge you to delete or modify that post! It gives away some of A&D!!!!
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Cathys
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Iaianhp,
Those were my thoughts although I did read all of Dan Brown's books and found them quick reads but at points would just go "ok, I don't know about suspend reality on that one:)". I haven't read any of Dale Brown's stuff I will have to check those out.
I also like Dean Koontz but haven't read much of his recent stuff I will have to check out Odd Thomas and Forever Odd. Oh no the bedstand reading backlog is getting higher.

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