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[apocalypsos]

So I went to my parents' house for dinner tonight, and my dad gave me one of his old prepaid phones, and my mom gave me her paperback copy of The DaVinci Code because I said I hadn't read it.

I just read the first page.

Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.

I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.

I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.

They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.

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i read a few pages of this when it came out and thought it didn't impress me.
now that the movie's out, a friend is begging me to go with her (she loves tom hanks) and i can't see a best seller-turned-movie until i've read the book, so i decided to do it.
couldn't find the book (i'm not gonna buy it!) so i got the audio book. is less painful. i get distracted a lot thoigh but at least is easier to imagine and focus on the plot and characters .

one thing i have hated so far is that he's tried to shove down my throat some ust between sophie and langdon. i don't see it at all. and he keeps making remarks about it. if the connection is there, you don't have to put a big neon sign saying "hey! look!!! they like each other!"
other thing is the novel happening in less than a day. it's like 24 turned into a book.

i'll finish it, and i'll watch the movie, and i'll never waste my time with dan brown again.

seriously, i've seen better things written by 15-years-old on ff.net
and they don't get paid millions