Parker's review
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
oh you are a funny lady.
I second that =)
Very well said.
This is my favorite book. How could you?
Damn..this means the end of our friendship and I hate you.
Ha ha - DECEPTION!! Gotcha.
I wish goodreads had something worse than one star ratings. Like a green yuck face or something.
'Lobotomize the piece of my brain that holds the memory of this book' rating.
Since when is mentioning coffee five times in two pages proof of literary indecency?
Since either coffee or paper was discovered.
Your answer is couched in the terms of generalization that you seem to favour. Can you state the year?
BTW I started writing a comedy thriller called Caffeine Man about a man who has a caffeine gland where his adrenal gland ought to be - the result of a medical experiment that went wrong during those paranoid days of the Cold War. He's now a stock market trader who gets a caffeine buzz in the morning from his biological clock - without touching a drop of coffee. But things go awry when he proves so good at his job that he gets sent to other time zones as a roaming troubleshooter...
Then a female journalist discovers evidence of his existence amidst declassified government documents. And then the government realizes that the documents were not supposed to be declassified. So they send out some one to assassinate both of them. (Now the question is shall I make it an albino monk or an Arab? ;-)
Well the earliest example of paper is papyrus dating back to 3500 BC. Coffee quite some time later but in the same upper-east African area. So I guess Dan Brown's style of writing was a failure way before he was born and died near the Cradle of Civilization. Which is also the best ethnic choice for your character.
Okay a Libyan (with a scimitar) - everyone hates them anyway so I'm just pandering to existing prejudice, which is a perfect way to make money.
Now if I can just find a way to bring in Polar Bears, cryptographers and renaissance artists...
Parker's review
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Parker's review
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My aunt gave this to me to read..I of course hate Dan Brown but I figure it'd be fast and I could thank her for it, mention some interesting tidbits that are no doubt sprinkled throughout the book for idiots, and feel good about family duty. There is not one paragraph that is close to some acceptable literary decency. In 2 pages he found it ok to mention coffee 5 times. No, not fun tidbits about the history of coffee but just as action filler: 'blah blah blah,' he said while he stirred his coffee. Multiply that by 5 (some instance of someone using, gasp, cream, or sugar) and 2 minutes have been sucked from your life. And you will feel it. Unless you're an idiot.
I admit I stopped at page 140. It was a marathon of elementary torture. I started it one night and ended it the same. I didn't read 140 pages because I was thrilled, I read it because it took that long for Dan Brown to get to the premise of the effing book. And that isn't even that interesting. Enjoy, idiots.
I admit I stopped at page 140. It was a marathon of elementary torture. I started it one night and ended it the same. I didn't read 140 pages because I was thrilled, I read it because it took that long for Dan Brown to get to the premise of the effing book. And that isn't even that interesting. Enjoy, idiots.
oh you are a funny lady.
I second that =)
Very well said.
This is my favorite book. How could you?
Damn..this means the end of our friendship and I hate you.
Ha ha - DECEPTION!! Gotcha.
I wish goodreads had something worse than one star ratings. Like a green yuck face or something.
'Lobotomize the piece of my brain that holds the memory of this book' rating.
Since when is mentioning coffee five times in two pages proof of literary indecency?
Since either coffee or paper was discovered.
Your answer is couched in the terms of generalization that you seem to favour. Can you state the year?
BTW I started writing a comedy thriller called Caffeine Man about a man who has a caffeine gland where his adrenal gland ought to be - the result of a medical experiment that went wrong during those paranoid days of the Cold War. He's now a stock market trader who gets a caffeine buzz in the morning from his biological clock - without touching a drop of coffee. But things go awry when he proves so good at his job that he gets sent to other time zones as a roaming troubleshooter...
Then a female journalist discovers evidence of his existence amidst declassified government documents. And then the government realizes that the documents were not supposed to be declassified. So they send out some one to assassinate both of them. (Now the question is shall I make it an albino monk or an Arab? ;-)
Well the earliest example of paper is papyrus dating back to 3500 BC. Coffee quite some time later but in the same upper-east African area. So I guess Dan Brown's style of writing was a failure way before he was born and died near the Cradle of Civilization. Which is also the best ethnic choice for your character.
Okay a Libyan (with a scimitar) - everyone hates them anyway so I'm just pandering to existing prejudice, which is a perfect way to make money.Now if I can just find a way to bring in Polar Bears, cryptographers and renaissance artists...