A meteor that's been around for 100s of years is discovered to have proof of alien life by NASA! Agent Rachel Sexton and celebrity oceanographer Michael Tolland, become some of the first to suspect something is amiss and when they start looking into it.. direct threats are made of their lives! Is this a huge fabrication to shore up space contacts for the corporates or is it actually real?
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Another huge, but strangely believable story by the master of this type of populist writing :) Another solid 8 out of 12 if not for readability, for entertainment.

dear reader,

My first Dan Brown novel. It kept me turning from page to page, thrilled by the action and fast paced plot. Lost by everything that was going on at once for more times I can care to count. Baffled at the new information the author was hurling at me all at once. Confused by the sudden and unexpected plot twists. And frustrated at the stupidity of human simpleness when reasoning possible motives for the death of their comrades or whatever.

The twist and motives for the treason weren't strong enough for me, and it lacked flow and intellect. The main character is female, strong, intelligent, beautiful, and rich (I didn't expected less from Mr. Brown). Anyway, typical super heroine from an action book.

I wanted more than just thoughtless and senseless action from the book. I was expecting a cunning and deliberate plot twists that I didn't see coming, but I eventually settled with it, considering it brilliant, beyond amazingness. The book fell short from it.

The dialogues are comical, but most of the times I found myself rolling my eyes to the "quirky" and "witty" comments of the characters. Please, nobody will ever say what you're saying, or joking the way you're joking!

Anyway. I didn't feel the "deception" the book describes, I just felt sheer disappointment.

happy reading,

CS

Deception Point by Dan Brown

I read 'The Da Vinci Code' & 'Angels & Demons'. I quite enjoyed them. 'Deception Point', published in 2001 is another story (no pun intended). I could only stomach 30 pages before i threw in the towel. What a load of unmitigated, illogical, wooden, cliched rubbish. But i'll waste another 20 minutes out of my life to tell you why.
In the first few pages some bloke out in the frozen wastes of (Antarctica?) is descended on by two fellows who land in a helicopter, hold him up at gunpoint, force him to send a message via radio, bundle him & his equipment (sleigh & dogs) onto the helicopter. The helicopter climbs to 4,000 feet & then they toss him , his dogs & the sleigh out of the rear of the copter. Why/ I have no idea. Nor do i care (see above). No doubt the reader discovers why this happens later in the book. I wish i cared why, but i don't. Why throw him out? If they wanted the 'powers that be' to think he had had an accident, why not just kill him & leave him for the dogs to consume when they got hungry? Illogical!
Next we are introduced to two fellows hunkering down, presumably in the same frozen waste. They are introduced as Delta One & Delta Two. Really? I mean, the reader is an invisible observer. Why call them Deltas One & Two? Why not Cyril & Bruce? One can only wonder how their conversations went:

Delta Two: "So, Delta One, your youngest boy, Delta One Jnr starts school soon doesn't he?"
Delta One: "Yeah, Delta Two. End of next week. He wants to be a cold hearted killer, just like his old man."
Delta Two: Really Dude? You must be so proud."
Delta One: "I am Delta Two. He's a real chip off the old block."

Ye Gods. Cliche.

And then we are introduced to the Senator's daughter & the Senator-who-would-be-President. The daughter is of course intelligent, ballsy, gorgeous (but negligently so), has a great job & is naturally, rich. Whilst her pater is insincere, unfaithful to her Mother (whose dead- pathos), superficial, vain & oh yes… a prick. Cliche.
But let's skip ahead to my personal fave bit. Said tasty Senator's daughter turns up to the front desk at her workplace & is required by the Marine at the desk to undergo a security procedure, even though he recognizes her. What's the test, i hear you ask? Well she has to place a piece of gauze in her mouth which the Marine then extracts with his own fingers. Ew! Hope he washes his hands after every test. And you don't know whats been in her mouth. Er… she might have a cold. Not to mention the device this saliva soaked gauze is placed in for testing. How is that cleaned or does the accumulated slobber just congregate & slosh around like a primordial swamp? Ew.
That's about it. If you're reading this, you may be wondering how i can decide i didn't like this book after only reading 30 pages. In fact i knew after 10 pages it was crap. I read the remaining 20 pages because i'm a Masochist. Also, when one hits a finger with a hammer, it's not necessary to repeat the process to know you don't like it. Hitting my finger with a hammer would have been preferable actually.


The Plot

Yawn… who cares?


I'm consigning my copy of 'Deception Point" to my recycle bin, in the hope it will be turned into something more useful. Perhaps egg crates. This is quite possibly the worst book i never read.

Good reading.

بأنتهائي من قراءة هذا العمل اكون قد ختمت جميع اعمال دان براون
وما اكتشفته من قراءتي لأعماله انها كلها تدور بنفس السياق بطل وبطلة احدهما يكون الراوي ومؤسسة حكومية ضخمة عليها مؤامرة وقتلة سفاحين يطاردون الابطال وشخصية شريرة غامضة تكشف في نهاية الرواية وغالبا تكون ابعد شخصية عن الشك وسر لا يعلمه العالم وتفاصيل علمية وسياحيةكثيرة وان كانت هذه الرواية شذت عن القاعدة في نقطة الوصف السياحي حيث انها الرواية الوحيدة التي لم يتناول فيها الكاتب أماكن سياحية لانها كلها تحدث في القطب الشمالي وواشنطن واخيرا نهاية عادلة للشرير ورومانسية للابطال
ورغم تشابه السياق العام لروايات دان براون الا انها جميعها ممتعة للغاية ربما لان المؤلف يتعب فيها كثيرا ويذاكر كثيرا لتخرج بشكل مقنع وصادق ومشوق ومثير
بالنسبة لهذه الرواية فأعتقد انها اقل روايات دان براون
وهي قليلة الاحداث ففي اول 100 صفحة لم يحدث شيء ذو معنى او شيء محرك للاحداث
ولكنها مع ذلك من اكثر رواياته احتواءا على الكوميديا في حوار الشخصيات
لم افهم سبب تصرف شرير الرواية ولم اقتنع بصراحة بحجته في تصرفه بل المفترض ان يتخذ موقفا مغايرا تماما
وفي النهاية دان براون من كتابي المفضلين وانا انتظر روايته القادمة بفارغ الصبر

This is a real page turner. Quite an easy read that pulls the reader in with a fascinating plot, the occasional twist, and an energy to his writing that keeps one thinking where the story is leading to. Dan Brown manages to paint a vivid picture of the characters and surroundings, without laboring on details. Highly recommended.

Dan Brown vienas iš mėgstamiausių mano rašytojų ir kaip gera skaityti jo rašytas knygas...

The good 'ole days of Dan Brown, that's for sure. This is by far his best book in my opinion. The book is readable and lacks the self-indulgence seen with so many other authors and so many other Dan Brown books!

Finishing my 2021 Reading Goal with such an underrated Dan Brown novel!! This could have been a near-perfect reading experience if it wasn't dragged and bloated by the onset of the final climax. But still, a great and enjoyable sci-fi (almost) thriller with some political accounts.

More words to come... LMAO

Absolutely wonderful. I'm saying that right at the beginning.

I love this Dan Brown book so much to the point of fangirling. I think this is Mr. Brown at his best and perhaps his more underrated books out of everything he's published so far. I also have no idea why it's not being made into series. Perhaps that's a good thing because too much of a good thing can make the magic disappear, but I think I could live with one or two more Michael Tolland book.

I give props for the shocking twist at the end. I did not see it coming. For sheer entertainment value, this book has it all. To be quiet honest, I didn't mind so much the issues the book discusse or did I particularly care about the degree of truthfulness that the "conspiracy theories" this book provided. As with all Dan Brown stories, suspension of disbelief is still required to read it but, the heck with that! It was so much fun to read, what with the gripping action that ran throughout the whole story.

Actually this book had me at "NASA". (Apparently, I'm that much of a geek.) But then Rachel Sexton and Michael Tolland are such compelling characters as well. I was rooting for the both of them since page 1 and I wanted them not only to come out of this ordeal alive, but to have a happy ending. I was even in support of the romance that sparked between them, although I usually ignore the more lovey dovey parts in this genre. In this book, however, I thought their romance made sense.

Simply put, best Dan Brown book so far. A genuine page-turner.

Also: why is it not being made into a movie?

Ultra-Pacy and entertaining. An All-nighter after a really, really long time.

رواية مميزة بكل تفاصيلها التي تشدك في كل لحظة من الإثارة والتشويق المتواصل بلا حدود وغير القابل للتوقع
وكلما حاولت البعد عن قراءتها وأخذ نفس بسيط لتستوعب الأحداث تجد نفسك مضطرا لإستكمال القراءة لشوقك لمعرفة ما سيجري وإذا استطعت التخمين ولو للحظة فستفشل
بعد أن اكتشف قمر صناعي جديد لناسا جسماً نادراً بصورة مذهلة مدفوناً في أعماق المتجمد الشمالي أعلنت وكالة الفضاء المتخبطة نصراً كانت تحتاجه بشدة... نصر ذو تضمينات عميقة بالنسبة لسياسة الفضاء الأمريكية والانتخابات الرئاسية القادمة. وفي هذا الوضع العصيب للمكتب الرئاسي يرسل الرئيس محللة البيت الأبيض الاستخباراتية راشيل سيكستون إلى الحيد الجليدي في ميلني وذلك للتأكد من مصداقية هذا الاكتشاف مصحوبة بفريق من الخبراء بما فيهم العالم الأكاديمي الساحر مايكل تولاند تكتشف راشيل أمراً لا يمكن التفكير به: دليل قاطع على حيلة علمية بارعة - خديعة وقحة تهدد بإقحام العالم في جدال فظيع.

ولكن قبل أن تتمكن راشيل من الاتصال بالرئيس تتعرض هي ومايكل إلى هجوم من قبل فريق مميت من السفاحين يخضع لسلطة سياسية غامضة.

This is the second book I have read from Dan Brown. I read The Da Vinci Code first. And, whoever read The Da Vinci Code would think this book does not measure up to the other book's penmanship.

But, I liked this book. This book has the same breath-taking suspense that does not let readers put down the book until the mystery is solved.