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Summary: Deceptively Good Fiction
Review: Rachel Sexton is a NRO intelligence officer. Early on in the novel she is "invited" to a meeting with the President. Apprehensive about President Herney's motives since her father Sen. Sedgewick Sexton is the primary opposition not only in the upcoming election, but in virtualy every political standpoint. Especially NASA spending so Rachel reluctantly attends the meeting to be asked to endorse NASA's latest discovery...This novel is about many things but the one that hit me in between the eyes is AMBITION. Both political and personal. Dan Brown always seems to have something to say in his novels besides the main plot and here he seems to ask loudly how far would some people go to attain their ambitions. I disagree with one review about writing Dan Brown novels while most of the statements he made may be true I disagree, in that this novel the good guys didn't wear white caps and bad guys black.
What I mean is everyone involved in the story seemed to vary in shades of gray for nine tenths of the novel. With the exception of Tolland and Rachel Sexton whose character's were pretty pure. Everyone else though seemed to do what was neccessary to do what was right in their eyes even perhaps was not right in the majority's eyes. An experienced thriller reader could perhaps guess who the ultimate villian was but by clouding the supporting casts motives I feel Brown did a superb job of building and maintaining suspense. One minor flaw is I felt his characters could've been built a bit more as I found them maybe not 2 dimensional but bordering on 2.5 dimensional, whereas as a reader ideal characters in fiction are of course 3 dimensional haha. Although this book is about NASA (to a great extent) and its discovery, it is not rocket science. It is among the upper echelon of thrillers I would say ( as was Angels & Demons, I havem't read da Vinci code yet, but when reading it I would suggest to both Sunday readers (those reading fiction for pleasure like drivers' liesuely driving through the country admiring the scenery.) and more critical reader's (who for whatever reason if they are going to review a book or not.) to take this novel for what it is which I claim is an exciting thriller indeed.
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Summary: You too can write a Dan Brown novel.
Review: Ok- first off... I really did enjoy this book. However, now that I have read 3 of Brown's novels, I have noticed a certain formula that Dan Brown uses.
1- Use the word "Indredulous" as often as possible.
2- The bad guy MUST be known by a term/phrase instead of a name.
3- The bad guy is double crossing the good guys... and you are NOT supposed to suspect this.
4- The novel must take place in the course of one day.
5- Your hero must wake-up and not have a clue that he will spend his entire day many miles away from home, while being chased by bad guys.
6- All good guys must be experts at something very arcane.
7- The ending must be weak. If you follow these steps you too can write a Dan Brown novel. ORRRR you can use this formula to figure out the book you are currently reading after about 100 pages. This is clearly a case of diminishing returns. One book is Awesome, two is fun, but by the third... you are ready to turn on the television.
This is the weakest of the three novels that I have read by Brown (the others being Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons). The plot had more flaws, and the ending was even weaker than his other books. However, it was the third of the three, so using the FORMULA I pretty much had it figured out. Let me put it this way- this is the most forgettable of the three that I have read. My suggestion- read the Da Vinci Code (However, remember it is still "fiction" and despite the authors claims- some of his facts are seriously flawed- for instance - "The Gospel of Mary" is hardly widely accepted as legitimate).
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Summary: !!!
Review: Just read everything Dan Brown has written. If you can read his TRASH do that. :) He is BRILLIANT! Enough said? I feel truly enlightened after his books and Mr. Brown seems to be a rarity among us: an AWAKENED soul.
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Summary: Too violent for me.
Review: Well researched. Very interesting. About 80% into the book the blood and gore started and I didn't want to read anymore. But, of course, I did and finished the book just to see how it ends. This is my 3rd Dan Brown book and probably my last because even though these books are a good read, they feel like a made for TV/movie script.
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Summary: I loved it, but...
Review: I have read all four of Dan Brown's novels and rate them all at 5 stars.
Deception Point is the only novel of Brown's that has made a mistake
by assigning goodness and evil to 2 main characters by making one a
Republican and one a Democrat. The Democrat is a good guy
supporting a tax-funded black hole agency as something desirable.
The bad guys are evil free market villians which the public needs to be protected from. It's a shame that a person (Brown) that has explored so much of history and has made clear cut conclusions in order to weave his stories with so much authenticity, has to this point been unable to shed his political brainwashing received in schools of higher learning.
Deception Point did not have to identify political parties to make it the exciting novel that it is.
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Summary: Please Read this Book!
Review: This is an outstanding, well constructed novel. Very exciting, great characters, plausible story, fantastic plot twists. You will probably do an all night reading session once you pick it up and read about the sled dog incident at the beginning.
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Summary: Awsome Read!
Review: This is the first Dan Brown novel that I have read and I have to say "WOW". This novelist has talent and skill at crafting a fast paced thriller. The chacters are well developed, the plot flows well, and story telling is told flawless. I can't wait to read another Dan Brown novel.
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Summary: His 3rd Best
Review: Better than Digital fortress. This is a great novel! This ranks slightly behind The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. NASA conspiracies, cheating politicians, scientific enigma's...You'll enjoy it!
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Summary: Good story amongst the filler
Review: This was an excellent book marred by chapters full of what I would call "filler". The plot of the book is moving right along, when everything comes to a sudden halt with an entire chapter full of background info on one of the character or interrupted with seemingly useless interaction among other characters in the book. As an example, the main character can be at death's door on an iceberg when the story line suddenly switches to what politician had sex with which assistant on who's desk in Washington D.C. I found myself skimming page after page to get back to the "action". Again, this was a very good book with a great plot, but it should have been about one-third shorter.
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Summary: Another Winner
Review: In the end, the deceiver is the person you would most likely least suspect, and the climax is a nail-biter of massive proportions. While DECEPTION POINT does start off a bit slow, it is worth reading for the thrilling goose-chase/climax, as well as the overabundance of fact and scientific theory. Another winner from this talented author! Also recommended: THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez
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