Great Topic....
During the height of Dan Brown, circa 2004 I believe or at least that's when I heard the most about it, I was unable to get my hands on the highly recommended Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons, so I picked up Deception Point. This book single-handedly made me lose faith in modern authors and I didn't read anything from anyone current for about a year, reverted back to Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Orwell and the like. Though Brown's ideas are pretty good, at least enough to make a story about even if they are lifted from other sources, his writing is god awful. Foreshadowing is supposed to lead the reader towards an "Ooh!!!" or "Ah ha!!" moment later in the book by droping "sublte" hints, not cause them to slap their forehead out of shear frustration because the author has ruined their own pacing. I think I might've thrown the book across the room multiple times, but I had to finish it. Then proceeded to burn it. That book definitely pissed me off :wallbash: