Deception Point | Book Review

Deception Point - Dan Brown

Enjoyed this book a lot. It is kind of book you can read even while you are half asleep. Thats not necessarily a bad thing for a book like this. Particularly this one. An engaging thriller novel. And also a fine page turner.

Well it is indeed a formulaic book. It have pre-defined structure to it. The characters act the way the author wants them to, according to the requirements of plot for a particular instances. There is of course lack in psychological depth and congruence in characters. They act like set pieces tied together to make a political thriller story, and a scientific as well. The language used is deliberately simple and intentionally avoids using big confusing words and phrases. There is some stupid, and childish humor, and sometimes good ones too.

But it has a decent plot and have seriously unexpected turns and twists one after another. It is an intelligent book. Cant deny that. Author knows what he wrote and why. If you looking for something profound and grave look for something else. The book works for me. It offers what it claimed, an engaging plot and hooked me until I finished it.

It is a good setting for a movie. If it is made into a movie then it would be an entertaining thriller. Each chapter in the book was no more than couple of pages, and each chapter acts like a movie scene. Funnily, I mentally imagined these chapters as movie scenes, trying to convert them into movie scenes and assigning them physical features, trying to imagine how everything will look physically. How the characters will look, speak and act. And it was quite interesting.

Anyways a fun book to read. Hoping to read more by Dan Brown in future. This is his one of his most least read novel, and earlier too, maybe his second after Digital Fortress. I knew what I would get from this book and got it.

(Note: I got the book from a sale for 25 rupees viz equal to 30 US cents!! So cant complaint even if it would have been a scrappy one.)

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