Deception Point by Dan Brown: Book Review


My rating: * and 1/2

This book’s a mess. And quite a big one at that. Just like his much-undeservingly-hyped Da Vinci Code, Deception Point takes a astrophysic-geographical premise and botches it up bigtime. Yes, like before, the author’s USP is his reliance on reader’s ignorance and appetite for thrills. He delivers amazingly on the latter account but the moment you question one “fact” and stop ingesting and believing every bit of tosh the author throws with a calculately asssured tone, everything falls apart–the facts about NASA, the facts about American elections, campaigning, country’s issues. Clearly, Brown’s promise at appearing to present us a well-researched book is, for yet another time, a big farce.

Yes, I do have to admit that the book’s extremely well-written for the first 200-250 pages (that is, when we haven’t had a full glimpse of his laughable premise). Sadly, once the cat’s out of the bag the graph follows that of any C-grade hollywood action flick and the kind of saved-by-whisker escapades we readers are made to gulp (not one, not two but hundreds–one after another) makes you first stop caring about the characters and ultimately, despise the book absolutely. In fact, the last 50 pages are so over-written and so unbelievable, that I had to glimpse at the first and the last line of every para to just finish this godawful book.

I just wish Mr.Brown stops being such a pseudo and uses his decidely well-honed thriller writing skills to better use. He has the potential to write truly fantastic thrillers if only he brings a little plausibility and stops being so over-sensationalist in every book of his. With his dimwit theories and imaginative conspiracies–he has done precious little above brainwashing ignorant readers.

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November 30, 2005 / 11:12 am
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