Dan Brown hit the best-seller charts in 2003, with publishing of “Da Vinci Code“. The success was as much due to the better storytelling technique and tight pace of this thriller as much to the controversies and debates pertaining to its picturisation of Catholic Church and religious history of Christianity. Book Title : Da Vinci Code Author : Dan Brown ... Read More »
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Angels & Demons by Dan Brown | Book Review
Dan Brown’s second literary adventure “Angels & Demons” was first published in 2000, but the sells picked up after the super success of “Da Vinci Code” in 2003. Read More »
Deception Point by Dan Brown | Book Review
Deception Point, though published after Angels & Demons, is in genre with Digital Fortress i.e., it’s a “techno-thriller”. Amongst other similarities, like Susan Fletcher of “Digital Fortress”, here we have story of a woman Rachel Sexton, caught amongst a dangerous chain of events unknowingly and finally finding out the horrible truth behind the entire scenario. On this journey of hers, ... Read More »
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown| Book Review
Dan Brown rose to fame in 2003 with his controversial international best-seller “The Da Vinci Code”. This, however, was not his first work. He made his debut in the field of fictional thriller novels with “Digital Fortress“, published in 1998. Though the book primarily belongs to the techno-thriller genre, Dan Brown’s love for puzzles and anagrams, which he later utilised ... Read More »
Persuasion by Jane Austen | Book Review
“Persuasion” is the last and the most mature work of Jane Austen which she was intending to revise a bit before publication at the time of her death. The book was published posthumously with a title provided by her brother Henry. Persuasion has the best of construction, characterization and style amongst all Jane Austen works with deeper emotions than ever ... Read More »
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen | Book Review
Northanger Abbey is one amongst Jane Austen‘s earliest written works but was not published until after her death. And though it is believed that Jane Austen wanted to revise the work before publishing it, the story is complete in itself and quite a good one at that. Read More »