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A review by koshpeli
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.0
He sat down to write a review of The Da Vinci Code on www.goodreads.com. He knew that was a website from the letters www. He had a joke with his friend, the brilliant computer programmer who had once hacked Bill Gates' personal computer, that the www stood for Wild Wooly Wicked. That's how he usually felt about computers.
In fact, it stood for World Wide Web. He thought about that for a moment. The Internet was truly World Wide and also a web of interconnected ideas and computers and wires. "Another W word," he thought and chuckled. He quickly checked Wikipedia to come up with a bunch more didactic and ultimately completely useless information about the Internet. "Ah, here we go," he thought. Conceived in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original visionary of the Internet and a graduate of Queens College, part of prestigious Oxford University, the Internet had become very popular. And he should know since he was professor of the Internet at Harvard University. It was all too clear to him how popular the Internet had become last month when he saw someone accessing the Internet from their cellphone! He wasn't surprised though.
If you enjoy this kind of incredibly boring rambling on about every bloody thing the character encounters, the dumbing down of incredibly complicated ideas and historical movements, experts who don't know the most basic facts about their field, then this book is for you. If you enjoy suspense created by simply omitting characters' names when they are doing something EVIL, and giving their name when they are not, thus tricking the reader into thinking they are two people, go ahead and have your heart stopped. Ooh, or stopping the action on a supposed cliff-hanger, like, "He picked up the gun and walked through the door, ready for anything," only to pick it up three chapters later with, "The five year old boy was almost immediately hit by a blast of water so he took his water gun and shot the other small child," then this book is your idea of heaven.
On the other hand, if you enjoy good writing, believable plot or an interesting mystery, buy anything else.
In fact, it stood for World Wide Web. He thought about that for a moment. The Internet was truly World Wide and also a web of interconnected ideas and computers and wires. "Another W word," he thought and chuckled. He quickly checked Wikipedia to come up with a bunch more didactic and ultimately completely useless information about the Internet. "Ah, here we go," he thought. Conceived in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original visionary of the Internet and a graduate of Queens College, part of prestigious Oxford University, the Internet had become very popular. And he should know since he was professor of the Internet at Harvard University. It was all too clear to him how popular the Internet had become last month when he saw someone accessing the Internet from their cellphone! He wasn't surprised though.
If you enjoy this kind of incredibly boring rambling on about every bloody thing the character encounters, the dumbing down of incredibly complicated ideas and historical movements, experts who don't know the most basic facts about their field, then this book is for you. If you enjoy suspense created by simply omitting characters' names when they are doing something EVIL, and giving their name when they are not, thus tricking the reader into thinking they are two people, go ahead and have your heart stopped. Ooh, or stopping the action on a supposed cliff-hanger, like, "He picked up the gun and walked through the door, ready for anything," only to pick it up three chapters later with, "The five year old boy was almost immediately hit by a blast of water so he took his water gun and shot the other small child," then this book is your idea of heaven.
On the other hand, if you enjoy good writing, believable plot or an interesting mystery, buy anything else.