steelgeneral
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Reged: 01/16/06
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Ouch! Ok, enough with self-promotion, AAAA. I agree. If I were wearing a hat, I would take it off to you.
So, what about other authors, though? Especially those touching upon mythic or religious figures in history. Can you recommend some?
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Esperanza
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Reged: 05/22/06
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I don't think Dan Brown is the best novelist I've ever read... There are better novelists even in the same field: historical fiction. Last summer I read "El Último Catón", it's written by a Spanish author, Matilde Asensi. If there is an English translation, read it.
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bankjc
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Reged: 06/06/06
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I actually do think Dan is the best novelist I have come across. He's not the best writer (not sure if anyone has read Language Log - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html - and god, I would laugh if that was someone on here) but gee that man can produce one hell of a story. What is said on that site seems to be just a little bit too anal for me. I like entertainment and I dont particularly care if Dan has started a sentence with the word 'Renowned'.
Other than Dan though, I like Donna Tartt. She reminds me a lot of Dan Brown. I like intelligent writing. People that seem to know what they are talking about. Has anyone read Secret History? I love how she mixes all these interesting tidbits about the Ancient Greeks and the Anicent Greek language into a really fast paced, thrilling narrative. She's amazing.
Edit - Just read the entire thread (somehow I missed out a whole page) and I just have to say that the Rule of Four was very good. Sometimes that changing setting/timeframe threw me a little (I never knew if he was with that girl or not!) but as a big fan of 'old interesting stuff' (haha!) I had never heard of the hypnerotomachia and then read one of those 'unofficial guides' to the book. Needless to say I discovered the 'renaissance' as it were - and that led me to Dan. The rest, as the say, is history....
Edited by bankjc (06/06/06 01:47 AM)
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Dazzle
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Reged: 04/02/04
Posts: 484
Loc: UK
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I've read The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It's about fifty times better than anything Brown is capable of, if not more. She at least has a grasp of her subject matter and knows what she is talking about.
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I like entertainment and I dont particularly care if Dan has started a sentence with the word 'Renowned'.
Hey, I like entertainment too. That's why I read. But I expect the person to whom I'm paying my money to have a grasp of what they are doing. It's like paying a paperboy to fix your car.
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theHistorian
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Reged: 04/23/06
Posts: 35
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What about Steve Berry? I read the Amber Room and that was a great book. I think I'll read the Third Secret next.
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ash
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Reged: 11/29/05
Posts: 74
Loc: Bombay India
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I saw UmbertoEco's interviewhere at local TV station and he cited so many examples where intellectual readers tried to get so many interpretations of The Name of Rose. Which he explicitely said was simple historical thriller with a bit of treatise on how too much theology corrupts reasoning.
Interviewer and He both had a hearty laugh. So read what you like and decide good or bad with your own judgement rather than so called intellectual norms.
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