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Review title: Awful dreck, publisher should be ashamed
Product review: I thoroughly enjoyed The DaVinci Code, so I rather eagerly bought this book, thinking it was new. But in fact, it is an older (1998) attempt at writing about technology that is just dreadful, and should never have made it out of manuscript form without a rigorous edit and rewrite (or two or three). While it is nice to realize how much Dan Brown has grown as a writer, I simply felt ripped off by the publisher. Absurd dialog, absurd plot replete with not-believable characters with about as much appeal as old carpet remnants. Clearly this was rushed into publication to capitalize on the success and fame of The DaVinci Code but for goodness sake, couldn't the publisher have run it through the editorial mill? I'd send my copy back to the publisher but paying for the postage would be throwing good money after bad.
