Dan Brown

[qbman1]

I am two nights into the new Dan Brown offering, Inferno. You can currently get it for £6 in Sainsbury's when you spend £30.

OK, I know it is distinctly lowbrow and Brown's books are generally slated by the "critics" as poorly written but I like them anyway. The man certainly knows how to write a fast-paced thriller and I can't wait for bedtime for my next fix !

Dan Brown - love him or hate him ?

[HK phooey]

Hate him but I did have a very good chuckle at the following http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/1004 ... Brown.html

Here's a taster
The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

[qbman1]

I wouldn't mind being able to write that sort of crap and make half the money he does !

[HK phooey]

How can you justify him making the amount of money he does for writing crap and jump up and down like a demented nun on a pogo stick when my Gareth is offered £150,000 a week?

[qbman1]

Because he etertains millions of people and said Baleout is only in it for number one

[HK phooey]

Dan Brown entertains millions of lowbrow readers. Gareth entertains millions of highbrow supporters of the beautiful game. No contest

[qbman1]

I don't mind lowbrow - me Gran lived in a Council House ! But Tottenham supporters.....collective IQ of 28

[GillD46]

Lowbrow or not, I love Dan Brown books and have the new one on my kindle waiting forbwhen I finish my current book

[qbman1]

I'm sure you won't be disappointed Gill. It's early days for me but it already seems much better then The Lost Symbol

[Jacknian]

Quite like dan brown, have put the latest one on my kindle ready for our cruise. Don't care whether others think he is 'lowbrow" everyone is different and like different things.

[Gill W]

Dan Brown writes to a formula, but the stories move along quickly and they are an easy read.

They might not be literary fiction, but they are a good holiday read.

However, I have a friend who thinks that the Da Vinci Code is a factual book

[qbman1]

However, I have a friend who thinks that the Da Vinci Code is a factual book

You mean it isn't.....? I'm disillusioned

[GillD46]

There was an interesting programme about the reality - or otherwise - of the Da Vinci Code a few days ago.

Just started reading the new book and already I am gripped.

[qbman1]

I'm about halfway through, Gill, and you will be pleased to know the pace doesn't let up

[GillD46]

I'm about halfway through, Gill, and you will be pleased to know the pace doesn't let up

The trouble I have is not reading it oo quickly. I try and savour it - sad I know

[qbman1]

I know, it's rotten when you come to the end of a book that you have really enjoyed. See, you're not sad at all - or if you are, we both are !

[Kendhni]

I posted about that on the old P&O board ... if you have been following a series of books and reach the last one there is almost a sense of loss !

[qbman1]

I'm about halfway through, Gill, and you will be pleased to know the pace doesn't let up

The trouble I have is not reading it oo quickly. I try and savour it - sad I know

Still managing to pace myself and not rush it all in one go ! Just on the way to Venice now..... (no not, me, Robert Langdon !)

[GillD46]

You're further on than me as I am too trying to pace myself. I'm really enjoying it though.

[GillD46]

Having a lovely day relaxing in the garden yesterday,I read and read,and this morning I have finished the book

[qbman1]

I thought you were supposed to be making it last and savouring it. You can have too much excitement in one go you know !! I'm still somewhere around chapter 75

[GillD46]

I thought you were supposed to be making it last and savouring it. You can have too much excitement in one go you know !! I'm still somewhere around chapter 75

I know, I know, but when it's good and I'm enjoying it, I just can't stop!

That sounds rather a double entendre I think

[qbman1]

If a lady asks for a double entendre, give her one !!

[Silver_Shiney]

I read the first three - good stories in themselves. I was reading Angels and Demons and got to the bit about a church in Rome with a hole in the roof to let the demon escape - our excursion took us into that very church the next day!!