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What Dan Brown book to read next?

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I read The Da Vinci Code a few months ago and just finished reading Angels & Demons tonight. I loved them both (read through each one in an average of 4 days), and wondered if his other two works, Deception Point and Digital Fortress, are worth reading.

As much as I loved DVC and A&D, I'll probably at least give them a try regardless . Digital Fortress seems especially good because it seems to be technologically based. I know they probably won't have the same plot as the first 2 books I read (generally speaking, DVC and A&D had very similar plots).

For those that have read Deception Point and/or Digital Fortress, what did you think?
 
All Dan Browns have the same exact plot.

Expert in field gets woken up with phone call to help save the world. Expert meets another expert in another field of opposite sex. They save the world and hook up at the end.

Anywhoo...I liked deception point better than Digital Fortress.
 
i thought Da Vinci and A&D were his best two works (out of the 4 I read). There is still Digital Fortress, and some other one. I read them all, didnt care for the last 2 I mentioned.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
All Dan Browns have the same exact plot.

Expert in field gets woken up with phone call to help save the world. Expert meets another expert in another field of opposite sex. They save the world and hook up at the end.

Anywhoo...I liked deception point better than Digital Fortress.
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very true..

it has the same theme, even with the same prologue..

I read deception point, its ok, more realistic.. worth a read

 
I liked both, very much. Lots of technology, fast-paced. Whatever you think of his religious theories, Mr. Brown certainly does his homework.
 
Check it out of the library, borrow it from a friend, steal it. Whatever you do, don't give that hack any more money.
 
i am on page 290 of DVC. I do not want to read this thread as it contains spoilers!!!!!!. But I will save this thread to read after I finish DVC. I am reading DVC slowly, however I now know how I should spend my Saturday coming up. I shall bring my book into the mid-manhattan public library and finish it there. See my thread on what to do this weekend in nyc : link
 
i liked deception point better than digital fortress.. but neither as much as i liked his robert langdon books.. enjoyable though.. good to read if you have nothing else to.
 
i just finished angels and demons after the da vinci code and i have to say i'm pretty impressed. hopefully i will like the other two as well but it doesn't appear deception point or digital fortress was as well liked.
 
Did anyone else find The Da Vinci Code rather overrated? I mean the author is clearly excellent at packing his novels full of neat little historical facts, but as a story it was mediocre at best.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
Did anyone else find The Da Vinci Code rather overrated? I mean the author is clearly excellent at packing his novels full of neat little historical facts, but as a story it was mediocre at best.
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I didn't think that the book was that great either. If it wasn't for my friends telling me that I would like it I wouldn't have read it. I am just glad it was an easy read so it wasn't too much of a waste of time. Over all he just restated theories that have been arround for a long time and organized them into a ok plot. I gave it 2/10. The Templars have been done to death and the dead sea scrolls had nothing to do with christ.


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Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: yllus
Did anyone else find The Da Vinci Code rather overrated? I mean the author is clearly excellent at packing his novels full of neat little historical facts, but as a story it was mediocre at best.
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I didn't think that the book was that great either. If it wasn't for my friends telling me that I would like it I wouldn't have read it. I am just glad it was an easy read so it wasn't too much of a waste of time. Over all he just restated theories that have been arround for a long time and organized them into a ok plot. I gave it 2/10. The Templars have been done to death and the dead sea scrolls had nothing to do with christ.


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Damn, that was one of my favorite books of all time. Really makes you think twice about religion, no?
 
I liked Deception Point better than Digital Fortress. Digital Fortress was way too fast paced which killed any plot building whatsoever.
 
Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: yllus
Did anyone else find The Da Vinci Code rather overrated? I mean the author is clearly excellent at packing his novels full of neat little historical facts, but as a story it was mediocre at best.
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I didn't think that the book was that great either. If it wasn't for my friends telling me that I would like it I wouldn't have read it. I am just glad it was an easy read so it wasn't too much of a waste of time. Over all he just restated theories that have been arround for a long time and organized them into a ok plot. I gave it 2/10. The Templars have been done to death and the dead sea scrolls had nothing to do with christ.


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I agree wholeheartedly. I'll never again waste my time on one of his books.

The last 200pages of Angels and Demons have to be the stupidest ever written.
 
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
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Loved this book, much better if you're actually interested in the facts behind all these groups. I just finished Deception point today and didn't really like it too much, like someone already said his formula is getting pretty old.
 
Originally posted by: myusername
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Check it out of the library, borrow it from a friend, steal it. Whatever you do, don't give that hack any more money.
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He really is a hack...

If you want books along this line, go retro and read the original Ian Fleming works...

I read ALL THE WAY through Angels and Demons. It was very bad.
 
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