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Title: Deception Point by Dan Brown ISBN: 0-671-02738-7 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (192 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Cut and paste plot with many factual errors
Comment: As several reviewers have pointed out, Dan Brown uses the same plot outline in every one of his books. Brown also never checks any of his facts. Anyone with a basic science background will find many parts of the book quite laughable.
Besides the science errors, here are some things readers should know: Fossils don't exist in metamorphic rocks. You don't have to look on the bottom of the ocean to find fossils of creatures that once lived on the bottom of the ocean. If you are sitting in a cockpit of a minisub, and the sub starts to fall through the air, you will not hover above your seat. If you are warm and toasty in your snow suit on a glacier, you won't suddenly start freezing to death when you move to an iceberg. Helicopters don't need to swoop to strafe. Trained marksmen don't miss when they shoot. Wounds from machine gun rounds are serious injuries. You can't get to Fairfax by driving west from Falls Church on the Leesburg Pike. The L'Enfant Plaza metro stop is underground. The Metro drivers, not a recorded voice, annouce Metro train stops. You wouldn't exit the Metro train at L'Enfant Plaza to go to a Northwest Washington address.
Now that Dan Brown is rolling in money, he should hire a researher or fact checker for his next book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Deception Point
Comment: Like most people who recently discovered Dan Brown, I read the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons first and then decided to try one of his earlier works. This book was just plain OK, it wasn't grasping like the other two I read before. The only reason I kept reading was because I thought it would get better, but I was just swimming in spit. Like DVC and A&D, Brown divides his books into infinite chapters leaving you in the edge of your seat by ending the chapter just when something good is happening. I just didn't care enough for the characters or the plot to become genuinely interested in the book and my opinion was that there were too many story lines going on at the same time that I found myself lost at times or just plain pissed off at having to read some very boring part before coming back to the original main plot. I will rather sit and wait for the next Langdon installment than read any other of Brown's earlier work.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not great but more entertaining than TV!
Comment: Like other readers, I was disappointed after the quality of both the DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons. This book seemed forced into the Dan Brown formula: ridiculously capable people drawn into dangerous, dark situations masterminded by a secretive evil genius whose identity is revealed just at the end (the evil genius seems always to be a major character, friendly with and intellectually sympathetic to the cause of the protagonist)and violent hijinx ensue. Good does win out and the book ends when the protagonist gets into the sack with whoever he/she has been thrown together with by trials and tribulations engineered by EG referred to above. All of this sprinkled with liberal doses of real fun, eyepopping mind-bending technology/history. None of this is terrible (in fact, Michael Crichton has made a fortune by hewing to his similar code), but after 3 books it gets a little dreary. The good news is that Dan Brown evidently appreciates that, and so the more recent books are better: more clever, and more reliant on ambiguous evidence rather than easily debunked factual assertions. Reading it is still more entertaining than watching TV.
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Title: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ISBN: 0671027360 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Digital Fortress : A Thriller by Dan Brown ISBN: 0312263120 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Holy Blood, Holy Grail by MICHAEL BAIGENT, RICHARD LEIGH, HENRY LINCOLN ISBN: 0440136482 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 15 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eight by Katherine Neville ISBN: 0345366239 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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