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« Reply #20 on: October 11, 2004, 12:21:13 PM » |
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Just put down the Da Vinci Code - I did a 2 day reading session over the weekend and managed to read both Angels and Demons and the DV code. What can I say?  What about - 'The most BRILLIANT pieces of contemporary crime fiction I have ever read'?  Nah... doesn't do them justice at all. They are spectacular - brilliantly written, engaging and edge-of-your-seat thrilling. I had to literally force myself to not desparately flick ahead to find out what was going to happen  Consider me a permanent Dan Brown fan. Now I have 'Digital Fortress' on my shelf and am getting 'Deception Point' soon as well. Does anyone know any more he has written? FTY |
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« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2004, 05:16:46 PM » |
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I have to say I've never felt the urge to flick ahead in a book to see what happens... it's like fast forwarding through a film to se the ending! It kind of defeats the point of reading/watching it, I reckon. I didn't even flick ahead to see who died in HP: OOTP... that's willpower  |
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« Reply #22 on: October 11, 2004, 05:21:06 PM » |
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I have never done it either It would defeat the purpose of reading the story - the whole unravelling of the plot is the magic of a (well written) book. It was just so good that I was tempted... but resisted My not as obsessed with HP friend did just that - flip to the end and found out who died. Hmph. Did not talk to her for a week |
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« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2004, 08:08:27 PM » |
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I didn't even flick ahead to see who died in HP: OOTP...
I did  I know i know, i am week |
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« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2004, 08:17:22 PM » |
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Me too...
although we'd had so many fake death scares by that point it was hard to believe who "died"
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« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2004, 10:04:56 PM » |
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Me too...
You did? I'm shocked and appalled... I didn't realise that! |
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« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2004, 10:10:06 PM » |
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I didn't have to skip to the back of the book. I was foolishly reading posts on an HP newsgroup when rumors about the book were running rampant. Someone who got a copy of the book a few days before the release posted who died. I was furious, and promised myself that I would stay off the groups when the next book was ready to be released.
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« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2004, 10:14:45 PM » |
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Me too...
You did? I'm shocked and appalled... I didn't realise that! Actually not for HP but I have done it you were all being so whiter than white!!!! Someone had to be human on here... Actually Mark, my Mum almost always reads the end of the book first |
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« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2004, 04:02:34 AM » |
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Hello FTY: I was very happy to read your posts that you read both of Dan Brown's books - The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons!! I knew you would enjoy them but not to the point of purchasing Dan's other works! Please let me know how you like his other books as I have not read them yet. Thanks. |
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Roz
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« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2004, 09:17:54 PM » |
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OH MY GOODNESS! How can any of you sleep at night knowing that you didn't force me to read these before? I (sadly) have started with the da vinchi code... sister sandrine is lurking in the shadows as Silas is making his prayers!!!! What on earth with happen next? (no one is to tell me by the way ) |
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« Reply #31 on: November 02, 2004, 06:14:30 AM » |
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Wow this book is still amazing! My current favourite "light relief" line is: "Perhaps RObert told you I schooled just down the road at Oxford... of course I also applied to Harvard as my safety school" Not that I condone the practice of attending Oxford but at least it's the right side of the pond  |
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« Reply #32 on: November 02, 2004, 07:11:14 AM » |
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There is a better one down the track I don't think you have got there yet though Glad that you are enjoying it!  |
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« Reply #33 on: November 02, 2004, 05:20:40 PM » |
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I LOVE IT If there is one thing I would critisize it would be th ease of the codes, the rearranging of fibonnachi was ok but I am on the first page of chapter 71 where they show you the "semitic" writing and the first thing I have done is to look at it in the mirror I really want to solve as much as i canbefore they do. I confess that I didn't guess that hisbank code would be the normal fibonacci sequence though and i should have done... why would he want to rearrange it to what he had used earlier??!! Top Stuff so far |
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« Reply #34 on: November 02, 2004, 05:24:59 PM » |
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As they say "Baby you haven't seen anything yet"!! As good as The Code is wait until you get into "Angels & Demons"!!! As FTY found out you just can't put the book down!! Is Mark reading these two books as well? |
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« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2004, 06:44:01 PM » |
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I am torn between which one I like better! My friend posed this dilemmna to me - he asked me to say one because he only had time to read one! The thing is, I am lending my copies to him, so I will tell him to read both or I won't lend them to him So there Making me choose, indeed. The cheek!  |
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« Reply #36 on: November 03, 2004, 12:39:32 AM » |
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Great reply FTY!! |
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