I've bought 2 of Dan Brown's novel just, "Digital Fortress" and "Angels and Demons" -- preface of "Da Vinci Code". It cost me 280 NTD each, and considering of its original price 7.99 USD, it's surely not expensive.
Digital Fortress, a novel scripting the conflict of national security and personal freedom in networks. NSA (a.k.a. National Security Agency?) have code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, and called cryptographer Susan Fletcher(In Dan's novel, cryptographers usually are beautiful women =P) for help, while NSA is threated by someone.
Angels and Demons, as the preface of Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon is still holding the leading role :) (I had supposed Jackque, the curator died in Da Vinci Code, will play such a role.) The cover of it is printed : Robert Langdon's First Adventure.
I will have a article after read each.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
After the reading of Da Vinci Code
First, I must admit that I am deeply impressed by Dan Brown's way to create a "block of text" to describe a entire view. In total 483 pages, the time only pass "one night and half day" (|||). By ornate and gorgeous vocabulary, he constructed a detailed model of his huge imagenational and notional world. Indeed, it is a feature of his writing, but it also caused difficulty and (someone might take it as) boring. By the insertion between reality and virtual, thus Opus Dai, Priory of Sion, even Vatican His Holiess itself involved, Dan Brown knitted a "Circine" world to addict readers.
And as the same sake, this masterpiece is controversial.
Not even Vatican, it surely need not to discuss, but Opus Dei is a truely exist organization. In this writing, they were described as a murder, defender and zealot toward the Goddess Worship(in this book as "Pagan"), taking wrong method to against pagans, even worst then mid-age Churchism. In fact, I have no way to know whether Opus Dei is, but what Vatican itself does in our true world. In other words, it is very hard to tell which is true or false which is written in. This book use lot's of disputable example(we can know Dan's describe of some of Da Vinci's masterpiece is right, but we can not truely assure that Da Vinci was just thinking in the same way as this book describe). No matter it is so controversial.... Fake and true, who can tell us?
Vocabulary used in this book is also a feature. Numerous of splendid words used, and over-description is assured. For non-English-native readers, it is not only make a huge difficulty to read but make it intoleratable. Non-sense and unnecessary words, which only used to describe a single event, are too exploited. Maybe it is his writing habit and advantage for somebody, but also a disadvantage for someones(somebody like me lol). His exploiting describe to many events, slow the pace of the reading, and annoying to me :(.
There is another point I must claim, and it is also a dificient to me. Exploitting of coincide, a horrible numberous within -- Yes, "HORRIBLE". I know and I can interpret that it is supposed a imagenational novel, but exploiting of coincide is still a dot on a paper--and it is not a tiny dot. I am truely shocked by the identification of "The Teacher", but rather then a feeling of "Ahhh that he is! Why I ignored it before!?", I feel "Ahhhhhhhh How could such coincide happen so many time!".
Da Vinci Code is really a masterpiece, even with some deficient, its no matter. It's still commendatory, not only its structure, but his expertise writing leading readers in his world =).
And as the same sake, this masterpiece is controversial.
Not even Vatican, it surely need not to discuss, but Opus Dei is a truely exist organization. In this writing, they were described as a murder, defender and zealot toward the Goddess Worship(in this book as "Pagan"), taking wrong method to against pagans, even worst then mid-age Churchism. In fact, I have no way to know whether Opus Dei is, but what Vatican itself does in our true world. In other words, it is very hard to tell which is true or false which is written in. This book use lot's of disputable example(we can know Dan's describe of some of Da Vinci's masterpiece is right, but we can not truely assure that Da Vinci was just thinking in the same way as this book describe). No matter it is so controversial.... Fake and true, who can tell us?
Vocabulary used in this book is also a feature. Numerous of splendid words used, and over-description is assured. For non-English-native readers, it is not only make a huge difficulty to read but make it intoleratable. Non-sense and unnecessary words, which only used to describe a single event, are too exploited. Maybe it is his writing habit and advantage for somebody, but also a disadvantage for someones(somebody like me lol). His exploiting describe to many events, slow the pace of the reading, and annoying to me :(.
There is another point I must claim, and it is also a dificient to me. Exploitting of coincide, a horrible numberous within -- Yes, "HORRIBLE". I know and I can interpret that it is supposed a imagenational novel, but exploiting of coincide is still a dot on a paper--and it is not a tiny dot. I am truely shocked by the identification of "The Teacher", but rather then a feeling of "Ahhh that he is! Why I ignored it before!?", I feel "Ahhhhhhhh How could such coincide happen so many time!".
Da Vinci Code is really a masterpiece, even with some deficient, its no matter. It's still commendatory, not only its structure, but his expertise writing leading readers in his world =).
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