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# dan brown has never had a new idea.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:15, archived)
# i've read all four of his books
they're entertaining to read, to be sure... but they all have the same plot skeletons (ESPECIALLY angels and demons vs. the da vinci code)

Digital Fortress was pretty good.
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:17, archived)
# i enjoyed the da vinci code.
it was harmelss airport fun.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:23, archived)
# I thought it had:
- a fun if unoriginal premise
- a cracking plot (for, as you say, an airport book)

unfotunately it was:
- so badly written that at times I dropped out of the literary trance that books drop you into because I noticed a particularly poor piece of prose. I am by no means a great writer or particularly discerning reader, but that book had some shit passages in it.

please take a ticket and wait for number to be called if you wish to laugh at the words "shit passages"
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Wed 16 May 2007, 9:15, archived)
# "Digital Fortress was pretty good"
i never thought i'd ever see or hear that sentence.

the problem with Dan Brown books, is that he has no idea how any technology works. therefore all his books are riddled with errors regarding computers.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:29, archived)
# like this:
www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-127
???
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:31, archived)
# ah
"People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data. (See the opening credits for The Hunt For Red October) "

anachronistic at the time... but "hibernate" on any windows laptop now.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:36, archived)
# the most amazing thing
is how they never use the space bar
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:38, archived)
# or for that matter the mouse.
most of it is tapping on keyboards with no thought for where the letters actually are...
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:39, archived)
# watched Red October last night
the most glaring error in it is at "Heathrow"...

all the cars have British plates, but are driving on the wrong side of the road!

another one from war games: after he severs the connection with joshua, his screen keeps updating the time to launch.
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:41, archived)
# Clearly the internal clock form his workstations...
...is calculating the time based on the launch time.

How his display turns from raster to vector is the real mystery. Uber leet 80s video card?
(I helped save b3ta! Jimvin dropped plates on your arse at, Wed 16 May 2007, 8:27, archived)
# meh, I'm not interested in factual accuracy
it's dan brown. the shameless appearance of factual accuracy is what's important


s'why I always point and laugh at fundamentalists that protested the da vinci code movie... it's just fucking fiction
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:51, archived)
# just like the bible then?
(coobeastie Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:56, archived)
# haha this
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 3:15, archived)
# Yeah, it's fiction
Problem is, some people actually believe it and get the wrong idea.
(I helped save b3ta! idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Wed 16 May 2007, 3:33, archived)
# it's not dan brown's fault that these people are misguided and stupid
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 5:16, archived)
# are you refering to the bible, dan brown or both?
?
(I helped save b3ta! evilamnesiac says fuck you Prince, Wed 16 May 2007, 9:49, archived)
# A rugged male diver/engineer
teams up with a beautiful female scientist?

to save the world from a conspiracy!
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 16 May 2007, 2:32, archived)
# involving the government AND the church!
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Wed 16 May 2007, 5:31, archived)