browngeek

As my never-ending quest for knowledge continues :wink:, I recently decided to give up on books of fiction. The primary catalyst for this decision was Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons. This book by itself is not that horrible. The problem is, I have read his “Da Vinci Code” and “Digital Fortress” sometime ago and was astounded by the similarities in the storyline of all three.

Someone gets killed in the first page. Then, a brilliant single man meets a smart, sexy woman who may or may not be related to the victim. They both try to solve the case while avoiding death by a lonely assasin with no last name, whose mentor is a veteran old fellow known only by a codename until the “surprising revelation” at the end

Jeez! I can’t believe Brown is a best-selling author!

Any-ho, after I turned the last page of A&D, I closed the chapter of “reading another person’s imaginary crap” and ordered 3 non-fiction books from amazon.

The first one - On Bullshit

I am also reading Jeffery Sach’s End of Poverty…I decided to buy this after reading the fascinating cover story on his book in TIME magazine a few weeks back.

Will write my review of these books soon.

Note This is my personal blog and I have the right to change my mind anytime. This means I might revert back to reading “another person’s fictional drivel”…