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I'm so confused by one of the characters explaining how live music is different from music played through a radio broadcast because when the music is coming out of a radio, it's "all around us and our brains just tune in to listen to it"? What? Do you mean that we can tune the radio to the right frequency to listen to the broadcast? The radio produces the same soundwaves as an orchestra would. You know that, right?

I can't believe that I've still got over 400 pages of this left

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I've been slacking off, but made it to chapter 8

To be totally honest, I still don't think Dan Brown is a very good writer. Seems like he can come up with great stories and plot lines, he's just not very good at telling them. The cheap, "she said something that changed everything" cliffhangers are more annoying than addicting, all the characters are boring and think the exact same way and the way he writes women is really weird from time to time

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The Golem is probably my least favourite character. "I shall protect her", "I shall take revenge on everyone that tried to harm her". Okay buddy, we get it. Can we move on now?

Page 103

Having read a little bit more, I have to take back some of my negativity. It's been a long while since I've read a purely plot driven book. I still think the writing is very monotone and the characters are, well, not well written. It was clear from page 2 that Robert Langdon is just a self-insert. But the plot is very fast-paced and the simple writing makes it easier to follow.

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So far, I have not like Brown's writing style. It's very flat. I wish I could be more excited to read this, since the plot seems promising. However, I just know I will not like this book, and it will be the fault of his writing style and the characters.

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Chapter 7, let's go

Dude wanted to chop off Monstrilio's entire limb without knowing anything about its anatomy yet freaked out when something went wrong with a sedative. My guy.

I'm so excited to read a book where I don't feel compelled to check how many pages I've managed to push through every three pages

Slowly but surely...

Reading a paperback on the stationary bike was a good idea for the 5 minutes my hands weren't all sweaty 🥲 I will likely do it again.

A little disappointed in myself today because I definitely could've read more

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHY DO MEN WRITE WOMEN LIKE THIS??

Just straight up skipped some of chapter 4 bc it's not relevant to the course I'm taking rn. I'll go back to that if I remember to in the future

I've come to realise that the author of this book loves the phrase "inasmuch as"