Tuesday 31 May 2011

Day 8: Most Overrated Book

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.

6 comments:

storyteller said...

Ei I don't agree with the Wuthering Heights comment! I love that book.

Magically Bored said...

Hehe, I know. I don't like it.

A Benevolent Sultan for Life said...

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.

Magically Bored said...

You're exactly right, and it's extremely unrealistic!

CheshireCat said...

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.

Magically Bored said...

Uff, I know, I found it totally unreadable. :|