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Destineer
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http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html

I've never read the book, but some of Dan Brown's use of poetic license is hilarious. Especially the idea that CERN has an X-33 spaceplane -- an aircraft that was never really built. Even funnier if you've ever been to CERN or Fermilab is the idea that particle physicists walk around in lab coats.
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yeah, but the book was fun anyway.
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Tante Shvester
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I don't get why Dan Brown is so popular. Seems kind of hacky to me.
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Formulaic as all get, but I still think they are pleasant diversions.

I think The Historian is also in this category...over rated, but a good diversion.
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Tante Shvester
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I read "Digital Fortress" on the recommendation of someone dear to me.

Oy.
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Reading Angels and Demons was only entertaining to me because I was reading it while I was studying abroad in Rome. That and I needed a change of pace from sociological books.

IMO, The Historian is much better and more developed than any of Dan Brown's books.
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I've read Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and enjoyed them, but I refuse to read any of his other books because I know they'll follow his formula. That would just annoy me and make me start hating books I currently like, so I just avoid the issue.
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Tante Shvester
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I found it ridiculous the the riddles were so darn easy. And the super code-cracking hero-protagonists spend so much time scratching their heads over them.

"Wait! Maybe this is ANOTHER anagram!"

Uh...you think?
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The best line in the book is when one of CERN's supposed genius-scientists comments "oxygen is an oxidant." No, you think?
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Indoor sky diving (like Brown says they have at CERN) actually does exist, I hope I can try it someday [Smile] -- link to a San Diego place that does it.
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What I find sad is the idea that there are adults who read at the level to which Dan Brown writes.
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quote:
I read "Digital Fortress" on the recommendation of someone dear to me.

Oy.
As did I. I'll see your "Oy" and raise you an "Oh, holy hell!"
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[ROFL]
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I tried to read Angels and Demons, I couldn't make it through the first chapter. It was horrible.
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A&D gets better (marginally), kat. I despised the first several chapters of "anti-matter?!?! Uh, what is anti-matter again?"

I enjoyed Da Vinci much more, but I listened to it on audiobook (unabridged!) with a good voice actor.

-Bok
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Tom, the average novel is written at about a 8th to 9th grade reading level...that is what half of the US reads at.


I was reading at that level when I was about 8. [Big Grin]

It explains why King sells so many books though. [Wink]
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Tante Shvester
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My tongue is ever so politely bitten.
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I have given up any pretense of Dan Brown and now reading Foucoult's Pendulum, on recommendation of a Hatracker. Apparently, same genre, orders of magnitude better written.
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"I'd like an Order of Magnitude and a Side Order of the Phoenix."
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