Comments on: Dan Brown, We Salute You! http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:56:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: danisageek http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6460 danisageek Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:53:59 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6460 I did this book for my year 11 reading journal (back in the day). My concluding essay was pretty much that the only way Dan Brown had even vaguely contributed to society was through the debate he raised. Reading his books is actually like having your head slowly stuffed with faeces. I got a 20. I did this book for my year 11 reading journal (back in the day). My concluding essay was pretty much that the only way Dan Brown had even vaguely contributed to society was through the debate he raised. Reading his books is actually like having your head slowly stuffed with faeces. I got a 20.

]]> By: Kia http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6301 Kia Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:33:53 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6301 Lol! I devour books at a rate of about 1 per 2 days and when I get a shit book the shitness is directly proportionate to the length of time it takes me to read it. Davinci Code took me two whole freaking painful weeks. Dan Brown = mundane. On a side note: I fell prey to the Twilight series. All 4 books took me 4 days and it was while I was working full-time too. $30 per book but I kept buying them and hubby's like "Where the heck did $120 go this week?!!" and I really didn't have a good answer for that. Lol! I devour books at a rate of about 1 per 2 days and when I get a shit book the shitness is directly proportionate to the length of time it takes me to read it. Davinci Code took me two whole freaking painful weeks.

Dan Brown = mundane.

On a side note: I fell prey to the Twilight series. All 4 books took me 4 days and it was while I was working full-time too. $30 per book but I kept buying them and hubby’s like “Where the heck did $120 go this week?!!” and I really didn’t have a good answer for that.

]]> By: Luke http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6298 Luke Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:01:59 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6298 @Rach: no I did not, I was working at a very nice independent bookshop in Perth, which made the whole thing even more traumatic. The ladies who lunch were buying it like street grade heroin. @Rach: no I did not, I was working at a very nice independent bookshop in Perth, which made the whole thing even more traumatic. The ladies who lunch were buying it like street grade heroin.

]]> By: Rach http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6297 Rach Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:59:24 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6297 You didn't work at Dymocks in Garden City, did you? Because I swear I had a massive Dan Brown centric bitching session with one of their employees around the time everyone was cuddling The Da Vinci Code every night before bed. You didn’t work at Dymocks in Garden City, did you? Because I swear I had a massive Dan Brown centric bitching session with one of their employees around the time everyone was cuddling The Da Vinci Code every night before bed.

]]> By: blotto http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6292 blotto Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:35:59 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6292 the thing is luke if you really love something then you can see the faults in everything about your passion. books just like television movies and video games get produced at such an alarming speed that so much bullshit is out there it takes a true connoisseur to distinguish the crap from the gold. so consider yourself lucky you can find the gold amongst all this pre digested bullshit kudos to you for being able too cause i actually enjoyed the shit house dan brown books. says alot about me dont it :P the thing is luke if you really love something then you can see the faults in everything about your passion.
books just like television movies and video games get produced at such an alarming speed that so much bullshit is out there it takes a true connoisseur to distinguish the crap from the gold.
so consider yourself lucky you can find the gold amongst all this pre digested bullshit
kudos to you for being able too cause i actually enjoyed the shit house dan brown books. says alot about me dont it :P

]]> By: Taylor http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6291 Taylor Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:35 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6291 LOL @Maddy...so true! I'll confess to having read DaVinci and Angels & Demons (A&D being the better of the two, neither of them really being good, per se). But I won't be drawn into this wacky Freemasonry. No thanks, Dan. LOL @Maddy…so true!

I’ll confess to having read DaVinci and Angels & Demons (A&D being the better of the two, neither of them really being good, per se).

But I won’t be drawn into this wacky Freemasonry. No thanks, Dan.

]]> By: Maddy http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6289 Maddy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:51:08 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6289 My favourite is this stuff: "He was sitting all alone in the enormous cabin of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet as it bounced its way through turbulence. In the background, the dual Pratt & Whitney engines hummed evenly. " I read the book when i was roughly thirteen and I just remember going, "Why do I care what the effing engines are?! Show me a narrative, or at least some more gore! None of this makes sense! " My favourite is this stuff:
“He was sitting all alone in the enormous cabin of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet as it bounced its way through turbulence. In the background, the dual Pratt & Whitney engines hummed evenly. ”
I read the book when i was roughly thirteen and I just remember going, “Why do I care what the effing engines are?! Show me a narrative, or at least some more gore! None of this makes sense! “

]]> By: Simon http://thesomewhatambitious.com/2009/09/dan-brown-we-salute-you/comment-page-1/#comment-6288 Simon Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:16:06 +0000 http://thesomewhatambitious.com/?p=1351#comment-6288 How does that drivel get past an editor? How does that drivel get past an editor?

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