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Title: Not my favorite thriller
Review: I don't mind authors applying artistic license to the facts--it is, after all, fiction. But I do mind sloppy storytelling. I think that's what this is. It seems that character development and great writing were ignored in favor of action/pace. It's obvious that Dan Brown is a decent storyteller, just not a fabulous one. He knows the elements of good thrillers: setting high stakes, pitting good-vs-evil (even when there is a graying or blurring of them), making the solution time-critical (the ticking time-bomb), a sympathetic protagonist. He just doesn't pull all of it off that well. And there's some ridiculous action toward the end that made me want to throw the book across the room. Is it trash? No, bit there are a lot better suspense/thriller novels out there.
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