tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post7319031310049018556..comments2023-11-20T16:12:28.118-05:00Comments on the unlikely orange: i've been readinggreg milinovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494018362755379449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post-22962888133519763352013-01-12T06:44:51.064-05:002013-01-12T06:44:51.064-05:00see I think if I read this book I would just be ma...see I think if I read this book I would just be mad the whole time and want to throw the book.<br />I'll skip dan brown.<br />But I did just finish the secret keeper by kate morton and it was very good. I love her past/present switch backs (that's my fancy word for how she goes back and forth between the two) and how she weaves all the characters together. I also liked The Forgotten Garden by the same author.<br /><br />I get the SAME way with books, but it's really hard to ignore 5 children, so... they usually win.Crafty Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770432469384389912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post-10459926653832693982013-01-12T06:44:43.488-05:002013-01-12T06:44:43.488-05:00see I think if I read this book I would just be ma...see I think if I read this book I would just be mad the whole time and want to throw the book.<br />I'll skip dan brown.<br />But I did just finish the secret keeper by kate morton and it was very good. I love her past/present switch backs (that's my fancy word for how she goes back and forth between the two) and how she weaves all the characters together. I also liked The Forgotten Garden by the same author.<br /><br />I get the SAME way with books, but it's really hard to ignore 5 children, so... they usually win.Crafty Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770432469384389912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post-53675444282245982792013-01-10T06:39:43.973-05:002013-01-10T06:39:43.973-05:00yeah, its certainly a novel, but it is pretty clea...yeah, its certainly a novel, but it is pretty clear from the long and didactic sections of exposition that it is somewhat more than a novel, too, a chance for dan brown to try and convince his readers of some of his postmodern omnireligious beliefs. <br /><br />is it pretty good fiction? parts of it, yes. i mean, the suspenseful excitement, the way the story is woven together and the use of puzzles and codes is all great stuff. but the exposition is extremely heavy handed at times, to the point that i felt like i was reading a textbook. also, you have to take some pretty serious leaps at times to believe that characters would actually behave in certain ways. not that those were leaps i wasn't willing to make, mind you, or that i thought it ruined the book. i mean, i couldn't put it down. <br /><br />also, i feel very much compelled to go to washington d.c. now, and tour some of the buildings and sites that he described. greg milinovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494018362755379449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post-52804843869524961322013-01-09T12:38:40.433-05:002013-01-09T12:38:40.433-05:00personally, i don't get the reaction. it is a...personally, i don't get the reaction. it is a NOVEL. i thought it was a good story and left it at that. fiction. and pretty darn good fiction, if you ask me. :)<br />ErinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17502166.post-17309105766149431692013-01-08T18:54:44.111-05:002013-01-08T18:54:44.111-05:00I think I told you about that book! Glad you final...I think I told you about that book! Glad you finally read it!Cmilinovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09101852862367662664noreply@blogger.com