Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: In this book President Zach Herney is running for reelection
to his office.He is being contested by Senator Sedgewick Sexton.
Senator Sexton has made the inefficiency of NASA his key campaign
issue.In the Arctic a meotorite is found frozen in the ice and it
may contain evidence of life in space.A team of civilian scientists is sent to the Arctic to confirm the find.On this team
you have Rachel Sexton(the Senator's daughter)an intelligence
analyst and civilian scientist Michael Tolland.Upon conducting an
investigation they find proof that the meteor is a deception.Before they can warn anyone of the trickery they are attacked by assassins.They are in for a battle trying to stay alive.There are many strange twists in the plot. The true mastermind behind this plot will surprise you as well.This is
another good book from Dan Brown.You will enjoy it.
Rating:
Summary: A Very Good Book!
Review: President Zach Herney is running for reelection to his office.
He is trailing Senator Sedgewick Sexton in the election.Sexton
has made NASA his key issue in the election.Sexton wants to take
NASA private and allow it to be run by private companies.In the meantime a meotorite has been found in the Artic ice that possibly has evidence of life in space.Rachel(Senator Sexton's
daughter)an intelligence analyst and Michael Tolland travel to the Arctic and find out that the discovery is a deception.They are ambushed by a team of assassins have have to flee and fight for their lives.They have a desperate struggle for survival.The
plot is never boring. The true mastermind behind this conspiracy is also surprising.This is another good book by Dan Brown that
you will enjoy reading.
Rating: 
Summary: Good writing, ridiculous plot
Review: I'm a fan of Dan Brown's, and the bottom line is that he is a very good thriller writer (except for some of the dialog, which can be *really* strained at times). However, while the plotting of some of his other books such as The Davinci Code is just on the right side of the line between believable and fantasy, Deception Point is simply ridiculous. It's one thing for conspiracy writer like Ludlum to posit dark shadowy meta-conspiracies with a very few people doing simple but far-reaching things. Deception Point, though, goes the other direction and has scads of people putatively involved in something that could never in a zillion years have been kept secret for more than three minutes. Frankly, I found the whole premise so unbelievable that I had trouble enjoying Brown's as-usual good pacing and decent characterization. So, my advice on this one is borrow a friend's copy to take to the beach, but don't shell out for the hardcover. Dan, you can do better!
Rating:
Summary: These works are indistingusihable
Review: Ok, I've read The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and now Deception Point since Christmas. It is hard to put anything Dan Brown writes down. The short chapter schtick works well to keep you reading just one more chapter - sort of like trying to eat that one last pretzel stick.Now, which one was it that has the child estranged from the parent and the god-like agency head that turns out to be the villain? Which one has the university professor tweed suit type Indiana Jones hero/heroine who makes brilliant deductions from arcane minutiae to save the day in the nanosecond of time? Which one has the hero bedding the heroine on the last page after a whirlwind 24 hour adventure that would leave mere mortals in an ICU bed rather than a connubial one? Which one has the technical errors that are fingernails on the chalkboard to those who really know something about the subject? Reading these books is like eating spaghetti, fettucine and lasagna - lots of twists and turns but at the end of the day, all you've got a belly full of pasta.
Rating:
Summary: OK book but bad NASA research
Review: As a simple thriller, this book is entertaining. The plot moves along briskly and the author does a nice job of breaking the story up into nice, digestible chunks. However, as someone who knows a bit about NASA, it was clear to me that Dan Brown kind of phoned in that aspect of his research. Oh, sure, he threw in some convincing acronyms and mentioned a few real programs, but many of the "facts" about NASA's organization and programs which were used as critical plot points were just plain wrong. So, if you read this book, pretend that NASA stands for "Not the American Space Agency" and enjoy.
Rating:
Summary: Best Book (Excluding The Da Vinci Code ;-))
Review: One of the best books that will keep you guessing until the end. Some unique charaters really add intrique to the plot. Nothing else i can say withhout giving away the story. P.S. It's only $4.99 at Costco! That's where i got mine...
Rating:
Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Review: This book was OK as a beach vacation page turner. Is is a thriller, but not nearly as good as the Da Vinci Code, which I loved despite the hokey dialogue between the two protagonists. Like the Da Vinci Code, Deception Point contains hokey dialogue, but it's so bad that it detracts from the storyline. It's just not credible and certainly not realistic. Dan Brown needs to work on dialogue. Also, the plot twists and ending are clever and surprising, but so strained that they go beyond the intended surprise ending and are just plain silly. Bottom line: don't buy this book, but if you're stuck somewhere with not much else to read and some time to kill, it's mostly entertaining, but not great.
Rating: 
Summary: If you loved The Da Vinci Code...
Review: You'll like Deception Point. To say that Deception Point is as ingeniously crafted as The Da Vinci Code would be fallacious. However, that being said, to say that it is a letdown would also be erroneous. Although I found Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code to be of a superior writing quality, Deception Point is no slouch by any means. Deception Point, albeit a singularly unique effort from his other works in being a political/scientific thriller, equally engrosses the reader just the same with Dan Brown's customary edge of your seat thrill-ride waiting to happen type of writing style. Perhaps two minor peccadilloes with Deception Point would be the incessantly bumbling idiocy of the (supposedly elite but I can't tell by reading this book)Delta Force and the fact that President Herney sends an adviser to debate his Presidential candidate. Although there also exist many hyperboles to boot, Deception Point is, for all intents and purposes, a suspenseful page-turner that practically reads itself; it will, without a doubt, prove seemingly impossible to put down for anyone who enjoyed The Da Vinci Code.
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Summary: A VIRTUOSO READING
Review: Thrills and chills abound in a rapid-fire high-tech adventure by one of the best authors now working in this genre. The same may also be said of the virtuoso reading delivered by veteran voice performer Boyd Gaines. "Deception Point" opens with an unbelievable discovery by a NASA satellite: an ancient meteorite is discovered buried deep within an Arctic glacier. When the meteorite is examined there is another discovery even more unbelievable - seemingly evidence of an unknown form of life. Fact or scientific forgery? Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton and her team of experts including the likable Michael Tolland are dispatched by the White House to authenticate or debunk these findings. Their discovery places their very lives in jeopardy. Who or what is determined to kill them? Those with a fondness for action spiced with cutting edge technology will thoroughly enjoy Dan Brown's latest.
Rating: 
Summary: well...now for something completely different...
Review: Gee, I guess I'm the only one in the world who thought the writing in this book was totally sucky. Two-dimensional stock characters that I couldn't even force myself to care about, an okay but somewhat bored plot, pedestrian writing, and IRRITATING product placements - I got the feeling, as I do in Grisham books, that this book is an exercise in cynical marketing, NOT in creative, incisive writing. Yuck. No more Dan Brown for me. (I actually started wondering when I was reading this book if "DANBROWN" was an acronym for some software somewhere that had been programmed to churn out this kind of stuff...)
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