Dan Brown's Next Book (2 Viewers)

[The_DJ]

I've been waiting for his next one for a while now.. Any news as to when its going to be released?

I heard it was about the infamous secret society the Masons.. but thats all i know..

 

[Grobus]

No doubt it will sell in the millions regardless of its quality.

 

[absolution*]

I have no idea how this arseclown has managed to win over such a legion of book reading degenerates. Perhaps if i were to compose a book of single syllable words and a radical religious viewpoints, ill become rich and famous. JUST LIKE THE OC

 

[Grobus]

Just goes to show the public is a poor judge of whats good.

But I think Dan Brown is even worse than most of the trash pop authors out there, so its beyond me why he has sold so much.

By the way, no Australians should be interested in this book since John Safran already revealed everything there is to know about Masonic folk.

 

[absolution*]

i havnt read his other works, but the da vinci code has some of the most banal vocab usage and fragmented plot structure i (thankfully) have ever read..

 

[Grobus]

Yea, his prose is terrible, his characters are worse, his story is a badly structured mess of boring cliches that have already been done to death by conspiracy freaks.

As I said when I repped you, I would rather shit a live grenade than read anything of his again.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

I'm going to find something people agree with, like how bad it is that little kids die, and write a contraversial book about it blaming it on someone everyone hates, like Grobus.

 

[Lainee]

I thought Angels and Demons offered some interesting (though undisputedly unoriginal) food for thought and some eloquently phrased (and highly quotable) monologues too. But urgh... the writing (prose style, syntax) is just really, really bad:

A voice spoke, chillingly close. "Do not move."
On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly.
Only fifteen feet away, outside the sealed gate, the mountainous silhouette of his attacker stared through the iron bars. He was broad and tall, with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. His irises were pink with dark red pupils.

Full of inconsistencies, just becomes really annoying.

I guess the popular appeal is due to the simplified regurgitation of ideas in an easy to read format. The era of the 'remote control' lifestyle.

 

[Grobus]

Also people with no taste interpret his ponderous, pompous prose as literary genius.

 

[malkin86]

I think he plays on what people want to believe... That the [insert group here] are evil, and this is how evil they are. :O

 

[Grobus]

I'm going to find something people agree with, like how bad it is that little kids die, and write a contraversial book about it blaming it on someone everyone hates, like Grobus.

Shit, thats a good idea. Just chuck a few of my quotes in and no one will dare challenge you. Maybe I should write it.

 

[absolution*]

Da Vinci Code was good. But the language use is just reallly really plain.

Conformist!

 

[absolution*]

How can you say it was not fragmented?!

It was like... crappy fiction - crappy information - crappy fiction - crappy information etc etc etc. No flow whatsoever. He could have at least tried to cover up his own inadequacy with language by melding together his craptastic prose and his research (ie.google searches)...

 

[lukebennett]

i hardly read. but i thought the plot was quite gripping despite being a very easy read. i enjoyed it.

 

[Arvin Sloane]

I would rather shit a live grenade than read anything of his again.

That arranged can be.

 

[withoutaface]

I have no idea how this arseclown has managed to win over such a legion of book reading degenerates. Perhaps if i were to compose a book of single syllable words and a radical religious viewpoints, ill become rich and famous. JUST LIKE THE OC

And then we could buy all kinds of crazy things, like....loooovvvveeee.

 

[rific]

OK OK OK, I admit, I liked Dan Brown books, not for any literary qualities but becase they lacked them, I didnt have to think at all and that was kinda fun - like watching a teenie horror movie. Which means, depending on the topic, that I probably will at some point read any new books.

 

[jumb]

Loved the book, however it was poorly written. I will be buying the next one when it comes out.

 

[rific]

Read Matthew Reilly - the books were not only written before Dan Brown, there's a lot of content that's the same: Brown blatantly ripped Reilly off (ie Arctic mission, cryptologists, the French, etc).

Yeah, I've read some of Reilly, liked him for much the same reason. Although I think that, like Brown, he doesn't really write anything original in any book.

 

[rific]

Unoriginal!?

Spoiler

What the hell do you call disarming an ICBM in mid-flight then? Or driving a 707 down an aircraft elevator shaft? Or the entire dual-storylines concept of Temple, not to mention falling out the back of an Antonov An-22 in a tank while disarming the mother of all nuclear weapons?

Unoriginal my ass!

lol, now you sound like this guy I know, he's a Reilly fanatic, helps run a website or something. And sure, he has decent action, I'd go so far as to say he has great action for a relatively young author, some great ideas to back up his plot line, but he has the same plot line for all his stories.

Perhaps I should have said he doesn't write originally, as opposed to he doesnt write anything original.

Oh, and as I'm too lazy to write out my own spoiler box to respond, I will say that most of that stuff, or ideas of surprisingly similar nature, have already been done, possibly all of it, but I just have read about it yet

Don't take this the wrong way, I like Reilly, I just question some of his methods.