dan brown... utter genius!!

[murphytherot]

Does anyone else LOVE Dan Brown books like i do!!?? I first read The DaVinci Code (like tons of other people i know) and was absolutly hooked. Have read the 3 others he's written too, Deception Point, Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons (have nearky finished this one). He's a great author and i can never put his books down! Anyone else like his books???

[obione]

have to agree his books are excellent haven't read digital fortress or deception point yet but will have a look in the library next time im in.

[spanner7853]

Yeah i too have been hooked on his books. I prefer Angels and demons and Da Vinci code to digital fortress and the other one though.

[B00]

I loved Da Vinci Code, but got to admit, I got bored with the other 3. They seemed all too similar to each other for my liking.

[andy-hughes]

I am aware that DB has masses of fans around the world, but I am absolutely not one of them! I find is prose clunky, his dialogue unconvincing, his characters unbelievable, and his plots complex and impossible to follow.

However, I absolutely accept that millions of people love his novels, they just don't do it for me.

[Narolines]

I'm with Andy - I trudged through DVC out of a masochistic sense of having to finish it once I'd started, and I wouldn't go near another one of his books. Very poorly written, even more poorly researched, unoriginal, and just plain tedious a lot of the time. However, like Andy, I accept that he has huge numbers of fans, and if he floats your boat.......

[shivvy]

I think I am somewhere in between all the previous posters.
I thought DaVinci code was a page turner, as were the other 2 somewhat unmemorable books of his that I read (one about another female decryptor and one set in the north pole!) I thought all 3 of them were quite dodgy in terms of how they were written eg "poorly written", "clunky prose" but they did seem to be well researched - or at least well enough researched so that the average reader would get a sense of a world that is otherwise unknown to them eg NASA, Catholic church history etc.
Although Dan Brown may be closer to Jackie CoIlins than Shakespeare, I believe that there is room for both and I am pleased that he has written something that has got non-readers interested in reading. That must be a good thing?

[JustSia]

Andy, if you think his plot is hard to follow try reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Can't remember exactly but, someone on Amazon referred to it as an intelligent man's DaVinci Code. Exhausting read but never the less strangely satisfying.

[scuzzball]

I think he is rubbish.

[shaneystar2]

Does nothing for me either ..I managed a few chapters of DVC and gave up ..took it back to the charity shop from whence it came .Utter twaddle.

[jenstar]

I've read a couple of his books, but I could never shake off the impression that they weren't so much novels as film treatments. Every sentence seems to scream "Hey! Hollywood people! Make a movie out of this! Hey! Wouldn't this bit look great on a big screen?! Hey! Sexy female protagonist! Hey! This'll do great at the box ofice! Hey! Gimme money! Hey!".

[Hellion]

I read DVC all the time feeling I'd read it before - this was confirmed by the court case about him ripping off 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' written 20 years previously. I quite liked Digital Fortress but the rest were very samey - I agree with Jenstar they feel as if they are written with movie rights in mind.

[davetuc]

Very amateurish!! DVC and A&D ok, other two absolute crap. For a great read, try the Inspector Banks stories by Peter Robinson. Excellent!!!

[shaneystar2]

Have to agree with you there davetuc...brilliant Have read them all and have the new one reserved at the library.

[CathH]

I totally agree with murphytherot - Dan Browns books are excellent. I loved Deception Point and Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons was the best yet.

I can't get away with book series about Inspectors - not my thing. But hey it wouldn't do for us all to be the same would it!