Maybe creators get better with time and experience. I always like to see older work of my favorite creators. In books, I love certain authors Sidney Sheldon, Chase, Alistair MacLean, Ludlum, Crichton and latest to join the list is Dan Brown with his spectacular page turner Da Vince Code - that book was so well written which made it hard to put down. But that was not the first book I read from Brown, I read his earlier work ‘Deception Point’ - it had all his standard ingredients, an earth shattering discover that, if let out, will change the world as it is. His magic works in making you believe that everything you believed till this point is totally wrong. If he lived in 14th century, he would have written a world is round book.

So I was thrilled to grab a copy of his internet/digital thriller - Digital Fortress (1998). What an absolute crap - totally technically drab, and tries hard to create a calamity when there is none. You keep hanging with a faint glimmer of hope that it will pick up the pace - you secretly hope David will get out of Spain and do something interesting, and pray boss Stathmore doesnt turn out to be the villian, you would think that it is too cliched for Dan Brown to work on plot twists so dumb - but yes, he did, he went over the top. His climax is dumb squid, characters unidimensional, and greatest crime of all - made up crisis - you almost feel sorry for him when he tries again and again to whip up the tempo - he throws insane roadblocks, predictable twists, and you can hear him plead “Please be afraid - this is the end of the world” - Sorry Dan, maybe yours, not ours.

Next I plan to read his ‘Angels & Demons’ - lets see which one is he.