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Could Barely Continue, Jui 5 2004
"Deception Point," Dan Brown's third novel, is about the truth, falsity, and political consequences of a NASA claim to have discovered a historic meteorite embedded in ice for more than three centuries. The intrigue that ensues is an enormous disappointment and less than thrilling after reading "Angels and Demons," "Digital Fortress," and "The D'Vinci Code."The novel takes 150 pages of mindless digressions before the first "event" occurs, and even then it is a minor event in the scope of things. Another 200 pages of wandering digressions and ruminations follow before the novel picks up steam for the final 200 pages. Even when the tension begins to mount toward the end, Brown is given to endless digression after digression, making the novel lose its steam time and again. There were numerous occasions where I almost gave up reading, dreading another arcane lesson in Brown's extensive armamentaria of knowledge (e.g., the size, dimension, manufacturer, nation of origin, purpose, use - both licit and illicit - of aircraft, streets, memorials, geodesic domes, ice picks, chronometers, boats, ad nauseam). But the worst part came when the incredulous finale arrives -- an ending only God could have crafted in the derision of humankind. The book is not recommended. Brown's other three novels, however, are..
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