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Well, at least I knew what I was getting into.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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I read the prequel to this last year, the unmitigated turd soup called Angles & Demons. I hated the book. The big reveal at the end wasn’t much better than the it was all a dream trope that I tacked on to the end of a short story I wrote in the third grade. Even third grade me realized how trite and predictable it was to pull that out of the hat. Well, Dan Brown returns to tell an equally stupid story about Robert Langdon […]

Looking back on the last two months, and this is all I have to show for it.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

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I was in college in 2005, studying archaeology and talking to creationists in my free time. The Passion of the Christ had come out the previous year, and I was smart enough to sound like I knew something about the world, but not smart enough to just leave well enough alone. I spent a lot of time talking about religion, and science, and art, and history, and literature. Politics would come later – but I was a college student, and it was the point in […]

I Read Angels & Demons and RUN, YOU FOOLS

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

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First off this is obviously all my fault.  I was warned, I was given an explanation, and nevertheless, I persisted in reading Angels & Demons.  Folks, what can I say: my affection for The Da Vinci Code is pure and genuine, see here.  Angels & Demons, however, is genuinely the best sleep aid on the market. How boring is it?  It’s so boring that despite the fact that this is pretty easy prose, in a small paperback format, I’m barely able to digest 10 pages […]

I Read the Da Vinci Code and You Maybe Should Too?

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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Before I begin, know that there is a special place in my heart for not-good movies.  I don’t know if it comes from watching Sunday afternoon disaster films like the Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno with my sister when we were little, but I’d almost prefer to watch a movie I can laugh at than one I laugh with.  It’s just a good time. Perhaps this helps you understand where I’m coming from when I say that I absolutely LOVE the Da Vinci Code […]

My first CBR post since 2019

Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown

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This is my first CBR review since 2019. I’m not sure what happened last year (aside from the global pandemic), but it just kind of got away from me. I just checked Goodreads, and I read 55 books last year, so I totally could’ve hit another Cannonball. I just didn’t have the energy to review them. I think the problem was that I waited too long to start. I read a few books in January, but I also had this huge investigation I was writing […]

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.

Origin by Dan Brown

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Sometimes Dan Brown books and especially Robert Langdon as a character take credit for kind of obvious and not all that profound wisdom and philosophy. For example, there’s a part in this book where a character says a thing about evolution in a specific and creative way. Then, Dan Brown has Robert Langdon laugh at and admire how clever the saying was. That’s not how novels work dude! Don’t say something (not all that) clever and then have a character give you credit for it. […]



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