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    Laura

    Yup, I saw that...and you'd think since he was already published prior to this "hit" that he would have had an editor through his publisher looking out for his blunders. It's chronic in a lot of books on the shelves, one or two little blips in which someone's brain just shut down and missed. It happens even to the best of us, even good editors.

    One of the things that has helped me catch the little glitches is reading a section backwards, it forces me to really see what I'm reading and make sense of it. It's quite a process I've developed, I'm hoping it'll pay off someday when one of my books finally makes the leap.

    Good blog!

    Karen Junker

    Yeah, I noticed it. I forced myself to read the book, mostly because I want to know what makes it a bestseller. Probably it's the same thing that makes Roseanne Barr a famous actress. People go for the rush, not the details.

    James

    I didn't notice these particular slip-ups, though it was probably because I was too busy gouging out my own eyes with a pair of chopsticks.

    Dan Brown has to be the luckiest writer alive, that's all I have to say. His plots are threadbare-to-nonexistent, his characters barely worthy of the term, his "research" confined to regurgitating text nearly verbatim from his source materials, and (as you see) his prose is atrocious. And yet...he managed to stumble upon a perfect combination of beach read and religious hysteria, thus becoming a multi-zillionaire.

    Sigh.

    Jennifer

    My husband liked this book, but I didn't care for it. (He read it in French, so maybe the translation was worded differently.) There was nothing terribly wrong with it - it was bland. I suppose hype had a lot to do with its success. I think Mr. Brown wrote it with Hollywood in mind, which is why it was so thin on characterization, plot, and vocabulary.
    I haven't read a really good 'bestseller' book in ages - anyone else get that feeling?

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