News: Dan Brown Returns in September with 'The Lost Symbol'

[fashion_piranha]

OK.
So I am totally not a Dan Brown fan.  My mother LOVED The DaVinci Code, so when everyone was reading it a few years ago I thought I should give it a shot.  We didn't have a copy of The DaVinci Code handy, but we did have Angels & Demons, so I cracked that open and gave it a go.  Oh boy.  That was a truly craptacular novel.  Never mind the

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[narrelle]

I have not read the Da Vinci Code, pretty much because of comments like yours from other people whose opinons I respect. I haven't enough time for all the GOOD books out there.

But I have had to tell people in discussions that it is a work of fiction and is therefore full of MADE UP STUFF. Sigh.

In the back-handed good news column, however, if Brown can get published, surely the rest of us stand a chance.

[spryng]

The DaVinci Code was and still is the only book I've stopped reading out of disgust. Not the subject matter - I couldn't care less - but the abusive use of chapter cliffhangers. And, well, basically everything else you already said about his writing.
Ugh.

[deathjoy]

I thought the da vinci code was all right for what it was: a dimestore gumshoe detective thriller. Not some OMG major feat.

[kiri_l]

Thank the stars someone else thought it was crap.. as in all of them. I read it nay.. struggled to finish it. Frankly in my opinion this book *is* one of the reasons the quote "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." was coined.

How it got to be so popular is beyond me.

[ms_geekette]

Speaking of "Dan"...is that Daniel Radcliffe in your icon? (I'm assuming not) 'Cause every time you use it, I immediately think, "it's Harry Potter in drag!" ;-D

[fashion_piranha]

Ha ha! It totally isn't Mr. Radcliffe, but I love that you thought of him! I think the images are from an old cosmetics campaign, but it might have been from Vogue or W or some other fashion magazine. This icon's from the same collection of pictures.