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I came across a copy of Dan Brown's Deception point and I've been reading it for the last week, it's honestly one of the worst books I've ever read.
The man is a terrible writer, his characters are 0-dimensional striving far beyond the standards Scary Movie sets (a handsome TV marine biologist, a greedy politician who'll lie and back stab his way to being president, an ice-cold stern-faced female president's aide moving mysteriously behind the scenes, a gullible young assistant who stumbles her way towards the truth, the ethic-less scientist interested in funding and job security, the list goes on) and he kills them in the most boring ways imaginable, he fumbles his way unconvincingly through plot twists and story-vital conversations to unravel the feebly conceived conspiracy, he invents hi-tech spy technology as and when the story demands it, while simultaneously draining all and any joy out of robotic bug surveillance systems or secret aircraft that travel at 2000 miles per hour, then he rams pseudo-scientific explanations into plot-device roles with depressing linearity with a smattering of wikipedia-level geology, cosmology and paleobiology. Oh and the "his wife died, will he be able to let ghosts lie and open his heart again" love sub-plot has spun me to a pro-neutering stance on humanity. I despair at the thought of what damage Dan Brown could do if set loose on history, religion and the renaissance.
Dammit I want to know who's the real bad guy and how they get taken down.
The man is a terrible writer, his characters are 0-dimensional striving far beyond the standards Scary Movie sets (a handsome TV marine biologist, a greedy politician who'll lie and back stab his way to being president, an ice-cold stern-faced female president's aide moving mysteriously behind the scenes, a gullible young assistant who stumbles her way towards the truth, the ethic-less scientist interested in funding and job security, the list goes on) and he kills them in the most boring ways imaginable, he fumbles his way unconvincingly through plot twists and story-vital conversations to unravel the feebly conceived conspiracy, he invents hi-tech spy technology as and when the story demands it, while simultaneously draining all and any joy out of robotic bug surveillance systems or secret aircraft that travel at 2000 miles per hour, then he rams pseudo-scientific explanations into plot-device roles with depressing linearity with a smattering of wikipedia-level geology, cosmology and paleobiology. Oh and the "his wife died, will he be able to let ghosts lie and open his heart again" love sub-plot has spun me to a pro-neutering stance on humanity. I despair at the thought of what damage Dan Brown could do if set loose on history, religion and the renaissance.
Dammit I want to know who's the real bad guy and how they get taken down.