واو، روايات دان براون من الروايات الي ما تتنسى لفترة❤️، حبيتها.

ليس كل ما يلمع ذهبا ، قاعدة تستنتجها من روايات دان براون ، إن ذالك الشخص الذي يبدو من الوهلة الأولى منبع للأمانة و الوفاء يصدمك في النهاية فتستنج أنه هو مصدر كل تلك المتاعب و الآلام التي عشتها .
حرب سياسية في أوج إحتدامها أبطالها وكالة ناسا الفضائية ، البيت الأبيض ، مكتب الإستطلاع القومي وسيناتور أمريكي يضرم حرب إنتخابية متأججة للإطاحة بالرئيس الحالي للبلاد .
حملة إنتخابية مبنية على اخفاقات وكالة ناسا الفضائية المتتالية و إستنزافها لموارد مالية ضخمة من الدولة والتي مصدرها ضرائب المواطنين البسطاء .
تم ترويض الرأي العام بنجاح ، السيناتور في طريقه نحو البيت الأبيض، الرئيس الأمريكي الحالي في مأزق ووكالة ناسا في طريقها نحو الخوصصة .
يستفيق العالم باكتشاف من ناسا يسحب البساط من تحت قدمي السيناتور ، صخرة نيزكية مدفونة في قلب القطب الشمالي المتجمد مليئة بمستحتات حشرة قادمة من الفضاء الخارجي والتي تؤكد قطعا فرضية وجود حياة خارج هذا الكوكب .
لكن على عكس ماهو متوقع يرفع مجموعة من العلماء المدنين رفقة عميلة بمكتب الإستطلاع القومي و بعد سلسلة من التجارب العلمية ، الستار على أعظم مكيدة و خدعة حيكت بعناية عن الصخرة النيزكية وتورط رجال دولة ذات مكانة مرموقة فيها .
لتنطلق فيما بعد و كعادة دان براون رحلة البحث عن الحقيقة الضائعة على طول يوم كامل .
رحلة مليئة بتصفيات ، فخاخ ومحاولات إغتيال كل من حاول كشف حقيقة الصخرة .

This is one of the few books I wanted to throw across the room. Especially when the protagonist starts tapping Morse code out on the iceberg to attract the patrolling nuclear submarine. Give me a break.

Uzun zaman önce okudum. Tek hatırladığım kitabı sevmemiştim. Ve bu yüzden de bir daha Dan Brown okumamıştım elimde başka kitapları olmasına rağmen. İçim yanıyor.

I am a loyal fan of Dan Brown and am proud to say that I have read all his books except for the Angels & Demons which I hope to read in the near future. My first read of his work was The Da Vinci Code and from that point there was no stopping of reading his works.

Mr. Brown is an amazing story teller. In his books he combines actual historical incidents, historical institutions, secret societies that were and are in operation, secret government institution, agencies etc., with outstanding plot lines which give the stories an air of genuineness.

My first reaction to Deception Point was that it has no codes! Dan Brown, the master of codes has indeed written a book without codes! Interesting!

The book is woven around NASA’s discovery of a meteorite containing fossils claiming evidence of extraterrestrial life, the effect of this finding on U.S national space policy and future of NASA, the impending U.S presidential election, a daring scientific trickery and an astonishing deception.
NASA discovers a meteorite which contains fossils that produces evidence of extraterrestrial life. On President’s instructions four expert civilian scientists, including the charismatic oceanographer Michael Tolland and White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton sets out to NASA finding site at Milne Ice Shelf in the Arctic to verify the authenticity of the NASA finding. The team unravels however that NASA’s claim is false and a disturbing deception has taken place. But before they can alert the relevant authorities, a mysterious team of assassins follow their trails with a fierce determination to kill. The events take place thereafter unfolds a thrilling story line and concludes with some shocking revelations.

The book is quite informative with all research well done. The story line is thrilling. The female protagonist, Rachel Sexton was well portrayed to make her so believable. She is a woman with a strong mind yet she has her own fears which show that she is real, almost human. Her hatred towards her father given his history of infidelity which indirectly caused her mother’s death is almost natural. The male protagonist too has been given equal strength in the book which I found quite refreshing. I am always amazed by Mr. Brown’s ability to develop the characters so well that you feel they are so real and close to your heart. The book also subtly touches on political maneuverings to hold power/ to get in to power which is all too common anywhere in the world.

However, I felt that although there were a female and a male protagonist, the other characters were also equally strong and because of that the strength attached to the main characters were quite diminished. And also the NASA finding and its deception and the political maneuvering described in the book although was meant as part of the story, I felt the political maneuvering part as a sub plot to the main story line which kind of hindered the smooth flow of the main story. But these minor blemishes did not stop me from enjoying this enthralling tale.

All in all good research, good story line, fair character built and good suspense. Yet another interesting work by Dan Brown.

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.

After I have read this, I swore to myself that I am not going to read a Dan Brown book anymore. Though this book is not the worst ever, I just prefer Dan Brown's classics -- and by that, I mean the 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons'. :)

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.

My favorite Dan Brown novel.

Just like his Robert Langdon series this is sometimes a little silly but, like the better Langdon novels, it's also a lot of page-turning fun.

It's about NASA's discovery of a meteorite in the Arctic ice which seems to contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. This would be a huge success for NASA after years of failure.

It also comes at a time of presidential election and with the current President and his challenger Senator Sexton having different stances as to what to do with NASA.
The discovery of the meteorite therefore becomes part of political powerplay in Washington and Sexton's daughter who's working for the NRO gets caught up in it.

She's sent to the Arctic along with oceanographer Michael Tolland and some other scientists and, suffice it to say, things do not go as planned and soon people are either running for their lives or searching for the truth or both.

The themes of that story are much more appealing to me compared to the other Dan Brown novels I've read. And this makes me much more willing to give him a pass for some of his cheap tricks and the odd scene that requires the suspending of disbelief.

4.5 stars

I had a lot of fun with this book and in fact do still rank it among my favorites.

I enjoyed this different side of Dan Brown, and felt this was a fantastic thriller in of itself!

Not my favorite Dan Brown book, reminded me too much of the others.

18:50, 29/7/2011 Mission accomplished:D Am done w."Deception Point" by Dan Brown Another awesome thrilling novel of hid, as usual. Highly recommended... Full brief review will be written later :)


17:50, 5/8/2011 SOOOOOOOO Here is my full review :) ENJOY!!
“Everybody lies” is a phrase that keeps being repeated over and over again in every episode of the famous American TV series House. Most people believe in the truth of this phrase, however I am not one of them; or at least I am not, except when I am reading any of Dan Brown’s novels. So far I have read all his novels except for “The Lost Symbol;” hence, I could say that I am considerably aware of his style of writing and the general framework of his novels. But still I have to admit that every time I was taken aback when the moment of truth came in any of his novels. Personally, the concept of truth in any of Brown’s novel exceed the general meaning of “not lying,” it goes on to represent the opposite of illusion, namely it is more attached to the concept of reality; it is concerned with such question as: is what you are seeing, experiencing, being told is indeed the truth or are you being played by like a toy in a marionette show? So although all Brown’s novels kind of agree on the same framework and style of storytelling, each one of them is an enjoyment in itself and a masterpiece in one, or several, particular field of knowledge. Talking about “Deception Point,” I have to admit that although it is represented as a novel, a thrilling, amazing, rich and interesting one to be fair, it is also a brief textbook about the ocean world, the meteorites, the space battle, NASA, new weapons, the political battle during presidential elections in the USA, the human psychology, etc… quite a lot of stuff if you asked me, and that is what I like the most about Brown. He is not only a novelist but a transmitter of knowledge, enjoyment and an enhancer for open-mindedness and for thinking outside the box. The two main lessons that I learnt from this novel are simple but deep. First, never blindly trust what you are told regardless how much you trust the person you tells you, but always question and seek the truth of things by yourself. Second, don’t rush about judging people, especially those with high responsibility in the community, because around everyone of them there are a bunch of hidden players who work on arranging the game as they like, but if the people responsible are indeed up to their responsibility, they will eventually overcome the hidden players and be worth of the respect and the duty that people attach to them.