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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown
by Dan Brown
What a piece of crap. Some of the worst writing I have ever encountered. Fortunately, most people can't form a sentence of their own these days and that renders pap like this a commercial viability. Which is great because we all get to share in Dan Brown's genius. I'd give it 0 stars if I could. I am offended by how bad this book is. But I have to admit, actually, that I did not finish it. I threw it across the room in disgust. So, maybe, just maybe, it gets really good after the steaming pile of horseshit that is the first 50 pages.
The only thing that made sense about this book was the place that I encountered it: casually forgotten, sitting next to a toilet, gathering dust. If I had spent money to acquire this book I would have subsequently sued to get my money back--kind of like fans of Creed [sic] suing Creed for sucking. My three year old niece is more clever than this book and, I believe, she has a better grasp of sentence structure, as well.
The only thing that made sense about this book was the place that I encountered it: casually forgotten, sitting next to a toilet, gathering dust. If I had spent money to acquire this book I would have subsequently sued to get my money back--kind of like fans of Creed [sic] suing Creed for sucking. My three year old niece is more clever than this book and, I believe, she has a better grasp of sentence structure, as well.
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Aug 26, 2008 07:59am
I agree wholeheartedly with your review...what surprises me is that you even considered it possible that Dan Brown could write a book that was anything but a waste of whatever energy one's body uses to process visual images. Could it be that you are among the minority of Americans that have not read the Da Vinci Code? If so, you are one of the lucky few who escaped. Run free James...run free.
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Yeah, no, I never thought he could do it, but I think I must have assumed that he could at least spin an enticing yarn. I was wrong! I could not get past the utter soullessness and spirit crushing banality of the prose. I thought to myself, this is why people love TV so much... because they read THIS. This book is like an add advocating illiteracy and mediocrity... Oh, and, no, I never read the fucking DaVinci Code--I sat through 35 mins of Tom Hanks' mulletted performance in the Ron Howard film and just had to walk away. How is it possible that people read and enjoy this stuff? Ostensibly, I mean one would assume that Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are reasonably intelligent men. How could they have read this and thought, hey, let's make a movie and we'll get Tom Hanks to do it and he'll have a mullett in it. WTF??
If you avoided the last 50 pages, you did yourself a big favor. The end is probably the worst one of all I've ever read or watch in a movie/tv show, The crappy crown over a pile of crap
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By normal, I gather you mean unintelligent. I'm not here to explain things to dumb people, nor to nurture their bad taste by writing hollow endorsements of crap books. Try watching TV. I suspect that is more your speed.
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