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Sephia said:
That's all, not counting the book he is curntly working on, but there are other books, sich as "The Rule of Four" and "The Name of the Rose" that are similar.

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Im halfway through THE RULE OF FOUR
and believe me ID rather read DECEPTION Point again and again even though its LAST on my dan brown list

TROF is boring

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danaholic said:
Books by Matthew Reilly are sort of similar, but don't really go into depth about history or art etc.

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Matthew Reilly, in my opinion, is worse than Dan Brown. This guy has a problem with attention deficit disorder in his writing. Short sentences, the majority of his paragraphs being one or two lines in length, exclamation marks for no reason, and many incorrect usages of italics (i.e. emphasising the wrong words). Bad narration, too.

He's a self-published author, primarily, and it shows. One of the short stories on his website, named The Mine, is seventeen pages long and, within those seventeen pages, Reilly gives us forty (!) individually titled chapters.

He had the cheek, when he was about twenty-six, to moan on his website about how he wasn't considered for the young Australian writer award. He based it on the belief that because he doesn't write poetic prose that the panel showed bias against him. What he did with that statement was show a total disregard for literature in thinking that a book has to be poetic to be considered worthy by critics; good solid writing without a glimmer of pretension is worthy also. It's just that Reilly isn't capable of even that.

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WKShadow said:
I have read DVC, A&D, DF, and now am going to read this one. Are there anyothers? I didn't see any listed. Does Dan Brown have aliases?

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If you go to Amazon and type in Danielle Brown and Blythe Brown, you'll see Dan's earlier books, which he didn't want people to know about, for fear that they would detract from his novels. In the case of The Bald Book, his wife, Blythe, drew the cartoons but Dan wrote the captions.

Lisa Rogak

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Author of The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code
www.danbrownbio.com

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Sephia said:
That's all, not counting the book he is curntly working on, but there are other books, sich as "The Rule of Four" and "The Name of the Rose" that are similar.

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Im halfway through THE RULE OF FOUR
and believe me ID rather read DECEPTION Point again and again even though its LAST on my dan brown list

TROF is boring

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Is THE RULE OF FOUR nice? I was about to buy it and read since alot of its review relates to DVC. Can you briefly tell me what's your review for this book and tell me what is about in that book, about religious? Arts? Secrets? Thanks for your help.. I'm still looking for good books while waiting for THE SOLOMON KEY.

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Carmen369 said:
I'm still looking for good books while waiting for THE SOLOMON KEY.

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Since you are in Malaysia why not try The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw, a Malaysian now living in Britain?

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Hayoroweu said:
DP was ,in my opinion, the best of the 4 dan brown books. DF seemed a bit rough around the edges, but i think it was an amazing achievement for a 1st novel. DVC and AD were excellent books, but Deception Point Rules all!:)

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I agree with that, too. DP to me, seems more scientific and really is my cup of coffee. As the front cover of the book says, it is really unputdownable. I finish reading it in 2 days. I really hope that there will be a movie based on DP, since now TDVC has been made into a movie.

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