Book Club

[mishka14]

anyone read Dan Brown's new book Origin...yet.....seems like it might be good.

[shop5]

Origin interesting topic. Some answers man doesn't need to know. I found many parts predictable in true Brown formula. A good read done in two days.

[aggravated]

I read the first chapter, believe it was on the CBS news page, after they interviewed the author on 60 minutes.  Ordered the book but haven't started it yet - I'm really looking forward to reading it.

[grandma r]

I haven't read this one yet.  I do, however, like his writing style and have read all of his others. It will probably be a quick read for me also.

My favorite is "Angels and Demons".

[sassenach1]

I read Origin by Dan Brown a couple of months ago.  It was okay.  Not his best.  Predictable. 

[Jannyg]

I just finished it and found it pretty good.  I still think the DaVinci Code was his best and the others have not quite measured up. But it's a good read

[Group 5 minus 1]

Just finished "Origin". Not much to it. Think he wrote it so that Ron Howard could produce and direct.

[ALRATIBA]

I don't particularly care for Dan Brown's Gnostic (heretical) Christianity .. (even if his books are works of fiction).   And, he has this strange fixation on Opus Dei.  

While I don't read Dan Brown, I do enjoy reading his critics.   One of the best is from The Telegraph (UK newspaper).  

Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown

It very funny and written in "Dan Brown Style."   A sample:

The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was mired in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

[Alter Ego]

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@Group 5 minus 1wrote:

Just finished "Origin". Not much to it. Think he wrote it so that Ron Howard could produce and direct.

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I switched to audio for this book and all I saw in my mind was Tom Hanks running around and saying the lines (even though he was NOT the audible narrator!)

[mishka14]

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@grandma rwrote:

I haven't read this one yet.  I do, however, like his writing style and have read all of his others. It will probably be a quick read for me also.

My favorite is "Angels and Demons".

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Hi, I loved "Angels & Demons" mostly because we had just gone to visit Rome, and we were at every on of the places in the book...It was great knowing what each site really looked like in person....love DaVinci Code too.....