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Good lord, 105 chapters--not counting Prologue and Epilogue! What exactly does Dan Brown use to determine chapter breaks, might I ask? :p [Trying to beat the *137* chapters for Angels & Demons?] It makes me feel mildly better about my own writing, though, with its deliberately-arranged "by day" divisions and chapters that on average attempt to break the two-page mark 9_9 although I guess it makes for easy stopping points during, say, a lunch break... at least it's written mildly better than his first adventure, though what would he do for a trilogy deal?
Further, Fawx's complaint of Digital Fortress [cool name, not so cool book] was that the reader could figure out what would happen before the characters could--DURP considering how smart the characters are supposed to be! I got a little of that in TDVC, particularly with parts dealing with things they described earlier in the book [even more particularly as pertain to da Vinci!!!], which I guess is his way of adding dramatic tension :/
*MIRRORED*! GADS!!
Still, A&D places a certain key character as late-thirties, which means it would still be around 2015 when the books take place if historically accurate [WHY is a spoiler]. He writes as though it's 2000-1, though, particularly TDVC, which is supposed to be one year following A&D. Since this fact [the spoiler] is practically a personal milestone, this is still the main issue I have with the book's setting--barring his erratic "narrative textbook" style of writing, sort of if 24 was part History Channel documentary--but I suppose people can't research EVERY detail |:/
I'm trying to find my previous mention of this, but there must be a limit on tag returns, because I can't find it with the obvious key words :/ and I forbid search engines from spidering this LJ. I'm likely recycling keywords too much--I'll re-tag it if I find the proper entry.
Regardless, it's like A&D--both a very anti-Christian and pro-Christian book at the same time[!!!]. I really love the one bit:Those who truly understand their faiths [Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, etc.] understand the stories are metaphorical... No more false than that of a mathematical cryptographer who believes in the imaginary number 'i' because it helps her break her codes.
Research-wise, yes, it is heavily Jane Jensen T_T but with a particular focus on dragging da Vinci into the fray, rather than trying to keep to the main interactive portion of a point-and-click adventure, so I can see where this infringement crap is coming from. Jacques Saunière is Prince James, Sophie Neveu is Emilio Baza, Robert Langdon is both Grace Nakimura and a touch of Gabriel Knight. The main difference is that Gabe ends up going somewhere totally new, while Robert actually does the "Your quest will lead you back to where you began" thing.
*looks* Ah, so Brown allegedly ripped off actual facts from a history book? Um, he actually makes a reference to that particular book in the story... that kind of happens with RESEARCH, so I don't blame them for being dismissive of the charge."If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
Wilson Mizner, U.S. playwright (1876-1933)
Bishop Doc Ock, though XD I AM LOLLERS TO SEE
Further, Fawx's complaint of Digital Fortress [cool name, not so cool book] was that the reader could figure out what would happen before the characters could--DURP considering how smart the characters are supposed to be! I got a little of that in TDVC, particularly with parts dealing with things they described earlier in the book [even more particularly as pertain to da Vinci!!!], which I guess is his way of adding dramatic tension :/
*MIRRORED*! GADS!!
Still, A&D places a certain key character as late-thirties, which means it would still be around 2015 when the books take place if historically accurate [WHY is a spoiler]. He writes as though it's 2000-1, though, particularly TDVC, which is supposed to be one year following A&D. Since this fact [the spoiler] is practically a personal milestone, this is still the main issue I have with the book's setting--barring his erratic "narrative textbook" style of writing, sort of if 24 was part History Channel documentary--but I suppose people can't research EVERY detail |:/
I'm trying to find my previous mention of this, but there must be a limit on tag returns, because I can't find it with the obvious key words :/ and I forbid search engines from spidering this LJ. I'm likely recycling keywords too much--I'll re-tag it if I find the proper entry.
Regardless, it's like A&D--both a very anti-Christian and pro-Christian book at the same time[!!!]. I really love the one bit:Those who truly understand their faiths [Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, etc.] understand the stories are metaphorical... No more false than that of a mathematical cryptographer who believes in the imaginary number 'i' because it helps her break her codes.
Research-wise, yes, it is heavily Jane Jensen T_T but with a particular focus on dragging da Vinci into the fray, rather than trying to keep to the main interactive portion of a point-and-click adventure, so I can see where this infringement crap is coming from. Jacques Saunière is Prince James, Sophie Neveu is Emilio Baza, Robert Langdon is both Grace Nakimura and a touch of Gabriel Knight. The main difference is that Gabe ends up going somewhere totally new, while Robert actually does the "Your quest will lead you back to where you began" thing.
*looks* Ah, so Brown allegedly ripped off actual facts from a history book? Um, he actually makes a reference to that particular book in the story... that kind of happens with RESEARCH, so I don't blame them for being dismissive of the charge."If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
Wilson Mizner, U.S. playwright (1876-1933)
Bishop Doc Ock, though XD I AM LOLLERS TO SEE