I had a strong urge to put Wuthering Heights on this part of the tag, but I think Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code wins hands-down. Good choice of source-material, decently drawn characters - but the writing is very very mediocre, and I always get the feeling he's pushing forward too many bunkum theories.
I never understood the fuss about this book - it works as a thriller, but that's about it. It's forgettable and certainly not deserving of so much publicity. Personally, I believe Dan Brown cashed in on subjects he knew would raise controversy, thus gaining the book attention which in turn increased sales. So if a book works better as a marketing strategy than as actual writing, that doesn't say much for the book in question.
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Ei I don't agree with the Wuthering Heights comment! I love that book.
Hehe, I know. I don't like it.
I kind of liked this novel ( film not so much), this was my first Dan Brown novel. Although later I did read some of his other novels. By the end of it, I kind of hate this Prof. Langdon character. His intellect is akin to some random query to a highly scalable database, like Rajnikanth . No matter what the number is no matter what the painting is he seemed to have some uncanny opinion about it.
You're exactly right, and it's extremely unrealistic!
I agree about Wuthering Heights. I didn't mind it when we did it in the Romantic core, but I remember hating it when I first read it.
Uff, I know, I found it totally unreadable. :|
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