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Tom:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 04 Dec 2007, 14:45 ---In fact, Dan Brown has never actually written a book worth the time taken to read it. Anyone read Digital Fortress? Jesus Christ. Alongside Clive Cussler, Dan Brown is one of the authors I would love to see retire.
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Dan Brown will never be able to write as well as Cussler, ever.
Cussler is the better writer hands down, from Valhalla Rising:
--- Quote ---They moved through the morning mist like ghosts, silent and eerie in phantom ships. Tall, serpentine proes arched gracefully on bow and stern, crowned with intricately carved dragons, teeth bared menacingly in a growl as if their eyes were piercing the vapor in search of victims. Meant to incite fear into the crew's enemies, the dragons were also believed to be protection against the evil spirits that lived at sea.
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Brown, from the Da Vinci Code:
--- Quote ---Renowned curator, Jaques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing the gilded frame, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the masterpiece towards himself until it tore away from the wall and Sauniere collapsed backward in a heap beneath the canvas.
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Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Russell Beland ---The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
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Tom:
Win!!
thehollow:
haha, I gotta agree. the only Clive Cussler book I've read was absolutely ridiculous, well-written or no. Also, the movie Sahara sucked.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 04 Dec 2007, 22:30 ---I would also like to point out that in that book Dirk Pitt saves a plane full of handicapped children from crashing into skyscrapers.
I don't care how eloquent his sentence structure is, this shit has been done before, and it has been done much, much better.
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Did Robert Langdon do it? No he didn't. I'm not saying that Cussler is a great writer but that he is a better one than Brown.
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