Originally Posted by
sailor jack
okay well first, Dan Brown is just making an old idea bigger. The secret is bigger and more abstract and the trail is more improbable.
Secondly, Robert Langdon is perhaps the most underdeveloped character ever. His only character traits are a slight sense of claustrophobia and a mickey mouse watch.
Like The Da Vinci Code, the baddie is physically unusual. And he has a computer controlled wig (okaaay....)
The object in the story appears very early and the rest of the book is essentially a very long chase scene, with cars, helicopters, tunnels and secret chambers, with some twists, turns and chilling revelations to keep it readable.
The writing itself is shoddy. Browns vocabulary seems to be limited to "astonishing" and "incredible" which appear on nearly every 2 pages
The whole thing is held together by the fact that it is fast paced and hectic.
Don't get me wrong I was titillated by the whole charade.
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