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Review title: Tries hard - falls flat
Product review: What an absolute crap - totally technically drab, and tries hard to create a calamity when there is none. You keep hanging with a faint glimmer of hope that it will pick up the pace - you secretly hope David will get out of Spain and do something interesting, and pray boss Stathmore doesnt turn out to be the villian, you would think that it is too cliched for Dan Brown to work on plot twists so dumb - but yes, he did, he went over the top. His climax is dumb squid, characters unidimensional, and greatest crime of all - made up crisis - you almost feel sorry for him when he tries again and again to whip up the tempo - he throws insane roadblocks, predictable twists, and you can hear him plead "Please be afraid - this is the end of the world" - Sorry Dan, maybe yours, not ours.[from my blog: http://www.ofview.com/?p=42]
