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I've got ASCII, I've got the secret

Advantages: Reasonably interesting
Disadvantages: Very poorly researched, not a page-turner

A passing trip to Wisbech wouldn't sound like a possibility for a business opportunity, but there it was on the charity shop shelves. A perfect excuse for theediscerning to delve into the world of the latest phenomenonally successful author, Dan Brown, wi ...

theediscerning 20.10.2004 · Read full review
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Golden Brown, Texture like sun

Advantages: A good read to take your mind off thinking
Disadvantages: A very similar read to his other books

26-10-2008 Boredom strikes I currently feel like I am trapped in an old Shreddies advert. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones where you get half way through your day then and ugly little blue monster thing starts drumming on yo ...

ryanando 21.12.2008 · Read full review
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THRILLERS NEED DECENT WRITING TOO

Advantages: reasonably diverting plot
Disadvantages: very badly written, predicatble, boring in places

Despite hints from some people to the contrary, I am not a terrible book snob. I read crime, fantasy, s-f, thrillers and chick-lit quite frequently and historical romances from time to time. But even a 'genre' book needs to have a modicum of quality. ...

magdadh 11.03.2005 · Read full review
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Move Over Tom Clancy!

Advantages: Cracking good read
Disadvantages: Not a thing!

~ ~ I miss Tom Clancy. Or should I say I miss the Tom Clancy of old, who wrote such belting thrillers as ‘Patriot Games’, ‘The Hunt For Red October’, and ‘The Sum Of All Fears’. But while waiting for the plane to France for this year’s holiday I picked up ...

the_mad_cabbie 09.10.2004 · Read full review
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Digital Vinci Code?

Advantages: Nicely structured storyline, compelling narrative, at times very exciting, thoroughly gripping
Disadvantages: Lead characters perhaps a little bland, not quite as good as The Da Vinci Code, some may be disinterested by the technical-talk

In a remarkably short period of time, Dan Brown has emerged as one of the biggest and most-promising authors in the modern popular-fiction bracket. His Christian-bating best-seller The Da Vinci Code recently topped 7,500,000 sales worldwide and such is th ...

tom1clare 01.03.2005 · Read full review
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