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Dan Brown: Inferno

Meadow337

Meadow337

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Dan Brown seems to have bought into his own hype and written a book to show us how terribly clever he is (and well traveled - just to rub your nose in it). Unfortunately this makes the book read like a travel guide with a plot written by a painful professor who insists on telling us excruciatingly boring details about everything we pass.

The only thing interesting and worth discussing about the book are the views of the antagonist.
 
Its worth a read if you don't set your expectations too high. Think of it like the 3rd or 4th sequel to a movie you loved. You know it isn't going to be great but you will watch anyway.
 
Some writers pick up a certain habit it seems. After a few books, you either like the habit or you don't. With Brown you should know what to expect. I like his work because I've been to those places and I find out more interesting things about them. I like Grisham and he has his favorite area to dwell.
 
mahree moyle said:
Some writers pick up a certain habit it seems. After a few books, you either like the habit or you don't. With Brown you should know what to expect. I like his work because I've been to those places and I find out more interesting things about them. I like Grisham and he has his favorite area to dwell.
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It's generally called "writing to expectations". People expect a certain style from certain authors and to sell books, they continue to write within that style. And the more best sellers of a certain type they write, the more pressure there is to write more of the same.
 
sparkchaser said:
Implying that the other four were good. :devillook
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I totally enjoyed them, I read them as novels purely for the pleasure of reading and in that way they are more than satisfying.
I often like popular books, but then again I do not care what others think of books I enjoy, if I like them, then the opinions of others do not really matter to me.
Am I atypical in this respect?
 
Nah, you're not atypical.

Reading Dan Brown requires the kind of suspension of disbelief that I have saved for getting through movies like Olympus Has Fallen and GI Joe. :p
 
Renowned author Dan Brown got out of his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house and paced the bedroom, using the feet located at the ends of his two legs to propel him forwards.
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:rofl
 
:rofl that was really funny! I don't think his writing is as bad as that article though, it was a teeeny bit mean. It was more the 'look how clever I am' feel to Inferno that annoyed me.
 
that was really funny! I don't think his writing is as bad as that article though, it was a teeeny bit mean. It was more the 'look how clever I am' feel to Inferno that annoyed me.
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I agree! The only one I can remember reading was Angels and Demons and I remember that it just seemed okay to me. Sort of blah, bestseller stuff. But not that terrible! I think his success has placed his writing squarely under the microscope and I guess under that type of scrutiny his writing really seems to inflame the critics.
 
I've never managed to read more than one page of Dan Brown's writing (the first page of The Da Vinci Code, for what it's worth), I couldn't get myself to read the whole thing as I was rather annoyed by the prose. I feel much the same about the Fifty Shades trilogy of which I have plodded through a whole chapter before admitting defeat.

I like the Telegraph article, gave me a wee chuckle. :D
 
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