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Archive through May 19, 2004

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Midlifer

Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 12:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Jan. I had a great birthday!

Re: Angels and Demons,I have that in my possession, and plan on reading it right after I finish The Teeth of the Tiger (Tom Clancy).

I love books that make me THINK (next to romantic ones, of course).

Spygirl

Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 10:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I picked up the prequel today from the bookstore in the hotel lobby. I started reading it at dinner!!

Spygirl

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh wow - Angels and Demons is incredible. What a great read!!!!! Are all of his books this good?

If the Davinci Code is like this one, I cannot wait to get it! The bad thing is I never buy hardbacks, so I have to wait till it comes out in paperback

Midlifer

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't wait, Spy. Go to your public library if you must.

Spygirl

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That good, huh?

Midlifer

Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 9:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just hear from someone yesterday that she liked it, but that she liked Angels and Demons better. I haven't started A & D yet, but I do know that DaVinci code was a page turner.

Newman
Member

11-13-2003

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm a slow reader too. Will have to come back and read the comments. Writing this in yellow because it's like in code! Get it? Davinci code? Hard to read. Oh Lame Saint!

Twiggyish
Member

09-15-2002

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Newman! Let us know what you think of the book.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aww..but Newman, if you highlight the text you can read it easily!

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished it in 16 hours...that's two hours faster than HP's OotP...what an awesome story.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, February 01, 2004 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have purchased his new one ...Deception Point..online. As soon as it arrives and I finish it (which will probably be the same day :-):-) since he is usually so good) I will let you know what I thought.

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm in the middle of Deception Point - but I don't think it is new - they've republished Dan Brown's pervious books (Angels & Demons - same main character as DaVinci, Deception Point, and a third one whose name escapes me at the moment)

So far Deception Point is a good book!

Amchess
Member

08-27-2002

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Angels & Demons - I found the end more exciting than The DaVinci Code. Couldn't put it down! I also got Deception Point but had to return it unread to the library because I didn't have time to read them all and I couldn't renew it since there is a waiting list.....

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm..well I finally finished Deception Point today. You are right, Puppy, it was published originally in 2001, after Angels & Demons (2000) but before The DaVinci Code (2003). The fourth book appears to be Digital Fortress. I haven't seen that one.

I am not sure what to say. I LOVED Angels and Davinci Code but I am not so enamoured with Deception Point.

Don't get me wrong. It is very well written (although, since his stories always happen in less than 48 hours it is very hard for him to make the love affairs believable, especially in this book...at least to me anyway. But that is not important as the love thing is always totally inconsequential to the plot. It's like someone told him there had to be a love interest so he makes one.)

The story is a good one too. This time, however, it involves government agencies not religious agencies and when you remember that all agencies and technologies in his books are real, it can be very scary!

In the author's notes he says that Delta Force, the NRO , the SFF (all of which figure prominently in this story) are real organizations and that all technologies exist.

I am not giving away any spoilers when I tell you that Delta Force is an elite group of what could easily be classified as "SS" troops that operate for the American Government "OUTSIDE ANY LAW". It is written in their mandate that they are not subject to any law of the country. They murder anyone their controller tells them to kill, even high government officials. They never question their orders. It is their job to just "follow their orders" and assume, whomever their controller is, he knows what he is doing.

Come on people. Isn't that a scary notion????

I would recommend you read it though. If these groups really exist, it behooves us all to know about it.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, I want to read these books, but I also want to say something and hope you don't get upset with me for it. These books are fiction. They are bought in the fiction section. Fiction is not real. <tiptoeing away now>

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Urgrace - I keep reminding peeps who get very disturbed about DaVinci about that.

However - the notions that this real stuff could happen is a bit scary. I try not to think about that stuff though - I just enjoyed the read.

I will say DaVinci and Angels & Demons were better - but I really enjoyed Deception Point as well.

I have Digital Fortress is my mammoth to be read pile - but I tend to not read the same author twice in a row ( I burn out on the author if I do)

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
a good fiction is always better when it has its roots in truth. = )

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
amen!!!!!!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know what you mean Urgrace..but Dan Brown always makes a point of stressing that his books are based on ACTUAL groups and technology that really do exist today. He specifically states that the Delta Group does exist with it's "not beholding to any law" mandate! That's all I meant...not that the story was true :-):-)

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As Jan says..they are fiction, but the organizations listed in the books are real. One can only hope the book really is fiction in regards to their functions and activities. That is the scary part.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 11:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glad you all know the difference. There are some people who believe it to be true, kinda like the people who think they just filmed the shows on Nickelodeon and all of those shows are reality tv. That is also very scary!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know what you mean Urgrace. What especially burns me is when the HISTORY channel shows movies that are not, and don't even claim to be, factual. People assume, because it is on the history channel, it must be true.

or movies that twist the truth..like that submarine one (I forget the name). It showed the Americans breaking the Enigma code in WWII. The British broke that code.

Oh well.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Friday, March 05, 2004 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just finished Deception Point. It wasn't the same grab you by the throat story that TDC was, but it was a good read.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ditto for Angels & Demons, wasn't quite the same ride as TDC but a good effort. Now, on to Digital Fortress.

Spunky
Member

10-08-2001

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 7:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I checked the library and there were over 500 holds!!!! I picked the large print since there were only 60 holds...

Would love to come back here and read the comments once I read the book as well..

This is a great place to come and discuss books... and more in the other treads.