Normally, I know better than to look at award lists

[kestrell]

but I must have been in a weakened state or something, because I forgot and noticed that "Best Mystery or Thriller" went to Dan Brown's _Inferno_ on the GoodReads Best of the Year list. Granted, I only got about half way through it before the pseudo-science and the demented female sidekick made me give up, but I found it neither thrilling nor mysterious. The flat descriptions and repetative phrases did lead me to develop a theory that "Dan Brown" is actually a project concocted by mad grad students to persuade the world that a computer can write, and they have woven a mind-virus into the paper and the digital bits that compels normal people to believe that this is great writing, kind of like that mind-virus that cats use on people.

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[thnidu]

I started The DaVinci Code once. I don't think I even got to p.30.

I posted the first line of an instafilk then:

"Dan Brown's story is a-moldering in my brain..."

[kestrell]

I did finish _Code_, but it was on audiobook, which probably benefited the book incredibly, and it was in the dark and desperate days before ebooks really took off, so I had only a smallish selection of books to choose from.