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[The Village Idiot]

Then again, Dan Brown is a hater it seems.

[Chris_]

Well, doc, I didn't say he wasn't a very successful dumbass, I feel pretty much the same way about Stephen King.  Formula, yawn.

'Glaring historical inaccuracies,' unless the story is clearly supposed to be set in an alternate timeline or alternate reality, totally shatter my willing suspension of disbelief.

I would argue that King "jumped the shark" a long time ago, inasmuch as his work has become boring, and not nearly as imaginative as his early stuff (IMO, the "Stand" was the last readable piece that he did) ........further, he writes in a completely different genre than Brown.

I find Brown's work entertaining.......I'm not part of the cult that evolved around "The DaVinci Code", it is just interesting historical fiction, and he spins a good yarn.  He does well what most successful fiction writers have learned to do.....take a kernel of history, and expand it into a tale........

You might not like his stuff, but he laughs all the way to the bank.........everything that he writes is an instant "best seller", and so far most are either presently adapted to film, or are in the pipeline.....

It's hard to argue with success......

doc

[Chris_]

Dan Brown wrote one interesting book, and a couple of tired sequels.

He's latched onto a formula of connecting various threads of urban legend into a story. Like I said, the first one was pretty good, the rest drag on.

Actually, I think that he wrote them in the wrong order.......I thought the first one to be a bit confusing, in the historical context......I would have released "The DaVinci Code" first, followed by the first book (I forget the title), and "The Lost Symbol" of course is of a different basis entirely. But.......if I could write fiction like he does, I'd be living in a villa in the Camans..........and getting there on my G-550......

doc

[vesta111]

Actually, I think that he wrote them in the wrong order.......I thought the first one to be a bit confusing, in the historical context......I would have released "The DaVinci Code" first, followed by the first book (I forget the title), and "The Lost Symbol" of course is of a different basis entirely. But.......if I could write fiction like he does, I'd be living in a villa in the Camans..........and getting there on my G-550......

doc

Oh TVDOC, you should see the place Dan Brown lives in----Just down the road a piece from me.

For some reason he and family chose to live up here and do so in understated style.  A quiet family, they look and act the same as everyone else, no hoopla lavish party's or anything to call attention to themselves.   

As far as his books, I enjoy them as they can be read by teens with no trash bodice ripping or sex scenes that  are unapproved for a 13 year old to read. 

I do agree with the poster that wrote they could write with his style, it is for me the research he has done on what ever subject that amazes me. 

I do not agree that Mr. Brown is Catholic bashing, he could well write a novel about some lost item left on Hawaii by the Congregationalists who destroyed an intire Culture through good intentions.