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Originally Posted by Hateyou I've never read anything from this book until Vorph posted it.
That looks pretty bad. It looks like an aspiring writer from High School wrote it, or a rough draft for a movie script or something. I mean it was easy to read, it's just so...bland? Duno the word I'm looking for, I'm no literature expert. I just know that's not something I'd want to read. |
Well, I'm not a literary expert either, but the appeal of the book (if you want to call it that) is that Dan Brown has written it in very short, almost self-containing chapters.
The chapters are 10 pages long or so... and in just about every single chapter Dan Brown will solve a previous mystery, introduces the reader to a new little secret or riddle or mystery and ends on a cliffhanger of some sort.
It might not be noble prize stuff, but it's a good enough way to get Generation Videogames & ADD to read a book, hopping from one little cool to the next without worrying too much about the overall plot.
That is also one of the reasons why a Da Vinci Code Movie was likely to fail without major adaption IMO, because Dan Brown didn't really try come up with a good overall plot. Rather, it seems that he tried to patch together some plot that would let him include as many little secret & mysterious things as he needed for every one of his little chapters.
A more faithful screen adaptation of this book would likely have been a bunch of 10 to 15 minute episodes, each ending starting with "what-happend-last-time" and ending with a cliffhanger. That way, the bad overall plot would be less obvious (as in the book) and the "strenghts" that appealed to the millions of readers of the DaVinci Code might have been more obvious.
