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| Deception Point | 
| Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  190 reviews
Sales Rank: 869438
Media: Paperback
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0552151769
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780552151764
ASIN: 0552151769
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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Condition: Standard used condition.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just okay. October 1, 2008
It's an ok beach book. Nothing more.
But I agree with many of the criticisms I've read from other reviewers. First, the cardboard characters. Way too politically correct (Villain: white male Republican. Heroine: young, pretty intelligence analyst who outsmarts the male scientists and outfights special forces soldiers. ALternate heroine: young, pretty, black political wonk who outsmarts her aforementioned white male politician boss, and everybody else. With the aid of her female news reporter friend. You go, girls!).
Second, Brown alleges that all the technology in the book is real. I'm skeptical about the flying microbot -- at least with the degree of control to fly it into the eye of a person who is moving his head around. Also the rifle that manufactures bullets from snow or sand packed into its handle. Real -- or just on the drawing board? But I outright challenge the idea that there's an F-14 version that can fly 6,000 miles without refueling -- some of that distance on afterburner. And if Brown is not being entirely honest when he says all this is real -- I wonder what it tells me about his assurances that his most famous work also contains true accounts of historical events and organizations?
ehhhh...if you really have nothing else going on...... September 22, 2008
I could see Steven Seagal in a movie version of this book and then I would wait until that movie was a last option on late night TNT. There were some "ok" parts of the book followed by more let downs. It's almost like Dan Brown had writers block and the publisher was screaming for the conclusion.
 Da vinci code this is not. September 20, 2008
Dan Brown is definitely the king of the "smart novel". There is definitely alot of "jargon" in this book. Most of it geology. While I'm not sure how much of it is legit and how much isn't, I am certain that it made this novel harder to enjoy.
Spoiler Alert:
There's alot to do with chrondules. Don't know what chrondules are? Me neither, and it could seriously effect how much you enjoy this book.
It's written similar to the other Dan Brown novels. Trying to keep you on the edge of your seat with vague references to events that will completely revealed one piece at a time. This was done much better in the Da Vinci Code, and only medicore in this book.
It was enjoyable, but certainly not a must read.
Lots of suspense... September 11, 2008
Deception Point is a very suspenseful novel. Worth reading and is one of Dan Brown's best novels - second only to the Da Vinci Code.
Has Some High Points But .... September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy thrillers generally and am willing to suspend belief when it comes to works of fiction, so some of the things that other reviewers mentioned about some of the reaches did not bother me that much, but some did.
This book started off very well. The first few pages had me hooked, and had to finish off. The story went well for awhile but started to tail off. I found the anciallary charactors actually more enjoyable than the main ones, with one of the scientists being particularly good alebit a bit cliche. The main charactors by and large did not "grab me" as much. The television personality was good, the senator's daughter okay (started off strong then tailed), the senator and his aid never was enamored of, the President was okay.
The book did let me down though as the action really progressed - in other words when the scientists make some further discoverys. Just a tad bit over the top. Do not want to play spoiler on this, but will leave it as that there was too much extreme things happening at convienent times with mother nature. Just a bit forced overall and some gaps in the flow of the story to me. I liked the idea and some places alot, others not so much.
Overall it was okay reading, good for plane flights, but I would recommend Brown's other books more. There there are general parallels in some plot points with the Da Vinci Code, I found the Da Vinci Code more enjoyable in terms of the writing and charactors.
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