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from: Blair Leatherwood
date: 2007-01-13 23:11:10
subject: Re: Suspension of disbelief - an open debate

John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Jon Schild wrote:
> 
>>I don't know how you feel about Dan Brown's writing, but I attempted to
>>read a novel called Digital Fortres. At one point, fairly near the
>>beginning, there is a description of the computer hardware tech lying on
>>his back under a mainframe soldering wires onto the edge of a card while
>>the computer is running. I yelled some obscenity out loud, and closed
>>the book. If it was mine, I would have thrown in the trash, but instead
>>I just took it back to the library. I neither know nor care whether the
>>rest of the book was any good.
> 
> 
> "The DaVinci Code" is just as bad. Dan Brown is a functional
illiterate.
> 
> 
> 
Exactly--good plot, lousy writing.

Blair
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