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Topic History of: I think the total lack of balance by media
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Green Man |
Wyot wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
But Dan Brown, whilst being almost unreadable, has one great talent. Cliff hanger chapter endings. His books are almost impossible to put down. Every time you think "I shall go to sleep after this absurd chapter" he hits you and you think "Just one more..."
Yep I read the whole Da Vinci Code...appalled at the sentences but turning pages. Incredible really; best thing is to never start one..!
A charity shop near me once had sign saying ‘No more Dan Brown.’ They had stacks of his books, I never read any of his books because they don’t appeal to me in the slightest. |
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JK2006 |
I re-read a couple of Agatha Christies recently and was amazed by how good a writer she was, |
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Honey |
If a fiction writer has the ability to make you see it and feel it as if you are there, in my view they are brilliant.
Dickens, Agatha Christie, and Enid Blyton might well be for plebs, but there is a good reason they are popular. |
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Semperfi |
Making historical conjecture believable, Brown has sold as many books as Grisham and Spillane. Translated into 70 languages and made into three awful movies. |
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Wyot |
JK2006 wrote:
But Dan Brown, whilst being almost unreadable, has one great talent. Cliff hanger chapter endings. His books are almost impossible to put down. Every time you think "I shall go to sleep after this absurd chapter" he hits you and you think "Just one more..."
Yep I read the whole Da Vinci Code...appalled at the sentences but turning pages. Incredible really; best thing is to never start one..! |
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