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Books everyone should read

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Pitti:
Shining by Stephen King is great :234567

sunnysarah:
Cant help voting for
Lord Of The Rings

and also

Magician by Raymond E Feist

Stuart:
Everyone should read the manuals for their household appliances.

Jo76:
Hey,

how about the thrillers by Dan Brown ?
Angels & Demons, Da Vinci Code and now the Lost Symbol ?

Dan:

--- Quote from: Jo76 on October 15, 2009, 10:49:26 am ---how about the thrillers by Dan Brown ?
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Entertaining but sloppy. It's the fast-food of literature so I don't think it's a must.

Also, there's a claim that bothers me:


--- Quote ---Martin Savidge: When we talk about da Vinci and your book, how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?

Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true.
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That is completely false. Brown says lots of things that are true and well-research and lots of things he just invents which makes it hard to separate the fiction from the non-fiction. Every time he talks about science, religion or history unless you already know the topic, you get Schrodinger knowledge: maybe you learned something true, maybe that was completely false.

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