Customer Reviews
Deception Boink
OK, I have not read "The Da Vinci Code" or any other Dan Brown book. This is the first and the last Brown book for me. This book is a quick page-turner and good to read in an airport lounge but it is totally ridiculous and filled with Bugs Bunny action. In light of Bush's recent announcement regarding NASA, the plot suddenly seems a lot more likely but that can't save this thing from pot-boiler status. The heroine hooks up with a hunky TV marine-biologist who has a cool boat, Delta Force tries to kill them (from what I know of Delta Force it is unlikely they would have failed against our heroes), everyone double-crosses everyone else and the end is predictable and disheartening and even involves some kind of volcano (?). This book is barely a notch above "Ice Station" by Matt Reilly (which was awful). If you want a good Arctic thriller involving buried mysteries in the ice, please read "Smilla's Sense of Snow," which is a smart, thought-provoking and entertaining mystery.
Some reviewers are paranoid
I can't believe that a couple of reviews have mentioned that the book is biased against Republicans. I don't believe any party in mentioned in the book. Is it just that some people are so paranoid that they automatically think the "bad" politicians are suppose to be Republicans? (because that's unfortunately the way things are now!!!!)
Better than Angels and Demons...
While not the concise and mesmerizing work of his other novel The DVC, this book certainly shows the author's growth from A&D. Dan Brown seems to get better with each subsequent work, I can't wait for his next novel in 2005.
