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[toef]

I don't understand why some books get really popular. It seems like a crapshoot sometimes (Harry Potter, Twilight, Dan Brown stuff).

Eventually I might get around to reading this new book (whatever it's called), but luckily I don't feel any pressure to read it right away.

I still have to read the last 5 Harry Potter books first though. (I finished the 2nd one about 4 years ago).

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by toefer

I still have to read the last 5 Harry Potter books first though. (I finished the 2nd one about 4 years ago).

I actually broke-down and started reading the series (currently on book 3). After the horrid movie this summer, I just felt completely lost in the story and my kids kept telling me I had to read the books to understand what was going on. I suppose I could have skipped the first two books, as the movies were essentially verbatim. There's a little difference in the third, but not a lot yet.

I'll have to stop by Costco tonight on the way home and see if they have the Dan Brown novel. I really enjoyed the his previous four.

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by Ricshoe

I actually broke-down and started reading the series (currently on book 3). After the horrid movie this summer, I just felt completely lost in the story and my kids kept telling me I had to read the books to understand what was going on. I suppose I could have skipped the first two books, as the movies were essentially verbatim. There's a little difference in the third, but not a lot yet.

I'll have to stop by Costco tonight on the way home and see if they have the Dan Brown novel. I really enjoyed the his previous four.

I really really want a movie of Deception Point. That's my favorite so far.

[JamesKurtovich]

Harry Potter is a fantastic series... What isn't good about it? I've read them all many times.

I've read/saw Da Vinci Code and only recently saw Angels & Demons. I realized they were kind of the same formula. I hope this one is a little different.

[franklinpross]

http://www.koat.com/entertainment/20...01150109152009


in Brown's own words:

The Lost Symbol" doesn't name names, but works in criticisms of waterboarding and religious intolerance, passages that suggest the author was not a fan of the George W. Bush administration.


What I'm trying to what to do in this book is send a universal message, and the second I pick a side, it just undermines everything," he says, adding that he underwent a "transformation" from working on "The Lost Symbol."

"(It's) really two things. The idea that science is starting to show our true potential and that that potential is so much greater than most of us imagined. ... Tangentially, I feel like we're entering a time where prejudice, prejudice of religion in particular, will start to evaporate."