11-14-2008, 01:57 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the land of high expectations...
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I preferred Angels & Demons to the Da Vinci Code but never found DVC to be THAT objectionable....perhaps the way you "read" impaired your potential enjoyment? I've discovered that while I am a fan of the idea of books on tape - I just can't listen to them and enjoy them the way I enjoy actual books.
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11-14-2008, 02:03 PM
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#102
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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I never read Davinci Code, but I had lots of people tell me to read it. It's only recently that people have been saying that it wasn't very good.
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11-14-2008, 02:05 PM
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#103
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
I never read Davinci Code, but I had lots of people tell me to read it. It's only recently that people have been saying that it wasn't very good.
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Were those people friends or enemies... just asking. 
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11-14-2008, 02:05 PM
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#104
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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They identified themselves as friends... but now I am not so sure. I never read it because of all the hoopla around it, I figured it was just a bit of a fad.
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11-14-2008, 02:09 PM
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#105
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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I'm officially putting Nonfiction-travel on the block. I'd say "food and drink" too--but I think at this point that's like trying to trade Anders Eriksson.
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11-14-2008, 02:11 PM
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#106
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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I'll put my Science Fiction and Graphic novel/comic picks on the block.
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11-14-2008, 02:12 PM
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#107
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
I'll put my Science Fiction and Graphic novel/comic picks on the block.
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I'd be interested in either. What are you looking for in return?
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11-14-2008, 02:12 PM
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#108
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A Fiddler Crab
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chicago
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The one thing that Mr. Brown did exceptionally well - one might even say perfectly - is what's called "information release". He held onto information that the reader wanted to have right up until the moment that you are ready to throw the book down in frustration, then at that moment he would give you just enough to keep you reading.
It's textbook thriller-writing and Brown did it very well. As far as plot construction, imaginativeness, metaphor, creativity go as well as basic description, character development, or story structure he's mediocre to poor.
He hit a nerve (Christianity) and rode a tidal wave of hype to millions and millions of dollars. He deserves credit - but no admiration.
And Angels and Demons is exactly the same book as Da Vinci Code.
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11-14-2008, 02:17 PM
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#109
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the land of high expectations...
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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
They identified themselves as friends... but now I am not so sure. I never read it because of all the hoopla around it, I figured it was just a bit of a fad.
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If you are going to read it, I'd suggest reading the books in order as A&D actually came first and then the DVC.....fairly decent reading as it is all as plausible as any books of the genre to be honest. They didn't turn me into a big Dan Brown fan but they were a fun few hours of reading to be sure.
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11-14-2008, 02:24 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Mission
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Quote:
Originally Posted by driveway
The one thing that Mr. Brown did exceptionally well - one might even say perfectly - is what's called "information release". He held onto information that the reader wanted to have right up until the moment that you are ready to throw the book down in frustration, then at that moment he would give you just enough to keep you reading.
It's textbook thriller-writing and Brown did it very well. As far as plot construction, imaginativeness, metaphor, creativity go as well as basic description, character development, or story structure he's mediocre to poor.
He hit a nerve (Christianity) and rode a tidal wave of hype to millions and millions of dollars. He deserves credit - but no admiration.
And Angels and Demons is exactly the same book as Da Vinci Code.
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I guess my issue with the information release - which I agree he managed - was that it became so quickly obvious the major twists I was just sort of wanting him to get on with it. That and the fact that if I read the phrase "feminine" whatever it was (I can't remember off the top of my head) one more time I was going to throw open the Emergency Exit door and jump. And you're absolutely right about it hitting a nerve, and Troutman - totally agree - I bought it used to kill time for the main reason that I was just trying to find out what the entire world apparently knew about.
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11-14-2008, 02:26 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Mission
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TRADES!
Anyone want to trade for my Science Fiction, Fantasy or Non-Fiction - Travel? I'll take pretty much anything else in return.
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11-14-2008, 02:30 PM
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#112
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by garypowers
TRADES!
Anyone want to trade for my Science Fiction, Fantasy or Non-Fiction - Travel? I'll take pretty much anything else in return.
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Check your PM!
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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11-14-2008, 03:01 PM
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#113
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before
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I'm willing to trade Non-Fiction (Scientific, Historical, or Philosophy) and Graphic Novel. Willing to accept anything in Fiction (except Fantasy)
Let me know...
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"It's red all over!!!!"
Last edited by Jagger; 11-14-2008 at 03:10 PM.
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11-14-2008, 03:07 PM
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#114
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In the Sin Bin
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My fantasy pick is available.
Fantasy...
*shudder*
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11-14-2008, 03:09 PM
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#115
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronald Pagan
My fantasy pick is available.
Fantasy...
*shudder*
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Maybe we should have called it Fantastic Literature - I actually had an English course at UWO called that. Not just hobbits and dwarves. Includes works like Kafka.
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11-14-2008, 03:10 PM
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#116
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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I'm willing to scoop up as much Fantasy as people have to give.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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11-14-2008, 03:13 PM
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#117
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I'm willing to scoop up as much Fantasy as people have to give.
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Sure thing there nerd. 
I'll trade you fantasy for either Biography, Euro lit, American lit, Canadian lit, history/political
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11-14-2008, 03:15 PM
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#118
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I'm willing to scoop up as much Fantasy as people have to give.
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Well I do have this one that involves my Grade 9 math teacher Ms. Levecque......
Wait, is that not what you meant?
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11-14-2008, 03:17 PM
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#119
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Well I do have this one that involves my Grade 9 math teacher Ms. Levecque......
Wait, is that not what you meant?
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If it is anything at all like what troutman was allegedly doing to his Borje Salming hockey card, then no, I don't want to know....
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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11-14-2008, 03:18 PM
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#120
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronald Pagan
Sure thing there nerd.
I'll trade you fantasy for either Biography, Euro lit, American lit, Canadian lit, history/political |
Bio - sure......
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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