Dan Brown — #100FavouriteAuthors
The not-so-popular choice?
Believe it or not, I do like the research he puts into his books.
Dan Brown was a rage when he burst on to the scene — everybody loved his most popular work, The Da Vinci Code. He had a style of writing that made reading easy — you could polish off a Dan Brown book in a matter of hours. There was also the element of puzzles and cryptexes, ambigrams, digital codes and whatnot. Dan Brown was popular, if nothing else. He had this way of actually transporting you to the locations he wrote about in his books — and what’s more, they’re all real locations.
Here’s how I rank Dan Brown’s books.
- Angels & Demons
- Digital Fortress
- The Da Vinci Code
- Deception Point
- The Lost Symbol
- Inferno
Sadly, his last two works, The Lost Symbol and Inferno, have been his worst. While the world-building and beautiful locations remain, the story gets lost, and we get a predictable plot halfway down the book. I still remain hopeful that he finds a return to form in Origin, his next book (due to be out this year, I think) featuring Robert Langdon.
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