Deception Point by Dan Brown: Book Review
30 11 2005
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.
EeeeeeeW!!
You read deception point? This was quite possibly the worst book Mr. Brown wrote - it was pathetic to the P :).
Yes! Deception Point decieved me too!!
I liked his Angels & Demons.. though I don’t understand why Robert runs and gets into the helicopter towards the end…
Keep writing!
Nirwa
Suyo: Yea, I am glad you have committed the harakiri too by reading it! Makes me feel better that I wasn’t the only one deceived LOL
Nirwa: Hahaha… his endings are sucha joke. I dunno maybe he writes them while watching some Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal film. They are so PATHETIC seriously. Deception Point has, if I remember the same braindead conclusion–cheesy action scene with helicopters and whatnot.
well personally i LOVED this book. i think that dan browns over the top imagination is made for people who enjoy novels like this one. people who can let go of reality. even though this is not really feasible its and excellent read!
Hey! this is one of Dan Brown’s greatest works (according to me), just give a proper critical review of the book, without adding your chat-masala!
All of you who think this book was awful are all out of your damn minds. Apparently you didn’t understand the book, not the full meaning anyways. It wasn’t all about deception as far as Nasa went. It also was about deception in Rachel was put in a position between her father and his opposition. You just looked at the surface, you didn’t read between the lines. If you can’t read any better than that you shouldn’t be reading books on this level anyways. I think the book was great.
You people who criticize this book and his other books for being inaccurate are misguided for expecting FICTION to be precisely scientifically authenticatable. Look up ‘fiction’ in Webster’s. It’s not what you think evidently.